I don't think I ever realized how far one person's death can reach until now. Before a few months ago, whenever I thought of death I would always think about wars and how so many people die every day in them. But when it's someone you know it's completely different. Sure, it's a fact that over 100 people die per minute globally, but when it's just a fact and it's just there it doesn't hit you about how many people that affects. Ironically, by taking someone away from the world, death brings people closer to each other. When you have emotions that you can share with other people in times of vulnerability, it makes you that much closer to them. Even if you aren't particularly close to someone when they are taken by death, it still affects you. And just like a cobweb, it's not easy to shake off.
Dealing with death is never easy and it doesn’t get easier with experience. There's no "right" way and no "easy" way. A coping mechanism isn't hardwired into humans and everyone deals with it differently. I listen to music and watch TV to distract me. I hate thinking about anything sad because I really don't deal with emotions well at all. I actually cry pretty easily. I've developed this thing where I just think about not thinking.
Death isn't introduced into our lives, it's always there. You can't just start dancing to "Can't Touch This" and expect death to leave. You can't try to Rick Roll death to try to make him leave either. Death, unlike Saw, does not want to play a game. Death doesn't just take humans; animals and plants are affected too. Wherever there is life, there is death. Please excuse this post's scatteredness (I don't care if that's not a word), I honestly don't even know how it ended up with "Can't Touch This" and Saw.
“We all die. The goal isn't to live forever; the goal is to create something that will.”
10/31/10
10/25/10
(R)Evolutionary
Has humanity really evolved? It seems like even though we have all this great technology which advances so quickly, people in general have absolutely no common sense. Humans are why we need warning labels not to put our blow dryers in a tub full of water and try to use them. And why we need warnings to not try to pick up and use a lawnmower.
As technology moves to the forefront of society and we gradually rely on it more and more, people don't feel the need to do things that technology can do. Want to contact someone? Use e-mail/texting/facebook. Want to play a game? The computer has games. But don't these things isolate us as well? Will there be a point where there will be basically no actual contact with people outside of technology? People hardly talk to each other on the phone any more, instead they text empty words. I don't like the idea of living in a world where there is no talking and there are just words on a screen. Going back to my post about words, it's much easier to convey messages in person.
When someone that could talk to me in person decides that they want to talk to me online I don't like that. At all. I don't like that I feel like this because I feel like I have no grounds to, but I can't help it. Last year I wanted to talk to someone all the time, but whenever that person sent me a message online I didn't respond. I do feel bad about that, but if that person didn't even try to find me to talk to me when it wouldn't take much effort, then do they really even care? I know it's partially my fault, but I felt like I put forth the effort to try and talk to that person but it seemed like they didn't care. Maybe that person just felt like it was enough to talk online, but that just isn't enough to me. That's another one of my unfounded things I don't like.
Empty words in a text box can be very misleading. How do you know that right now I'm not extremely angry? You don't. And you would never know because you have to surmise everything you can from the text that's here to try and figure out how I feel. I can put a smiley face right here -> :] and you just assume that I'm happy.
This is my dilemma: I love talking to people online, but at the same time I despise it. Anybody can reply "I'm great" when asked "How are you?", but there is no way of knowing if they're lying. Maybe that seems trivial to you, but to me it's important. I hate the open interpretations a block of text can present. You can't see the person's reaction to what you've said, so you don't know if they understood what you meant. If they didn't understand, chances are they don't say anything about it, but if you were having that conversation in real life, you would be able to tell if they understood you or not. I like online chat for the reason that I can talk to people when I want to, but at the same time it feels impersonal.
What really bugs me is the textspeak that's being formed. It wouldn't surprise me much if it were made into its own language. "hi how r u" seems pathetic and lame. I admit that sometimes I do type like that, but that's when I either don't really feel like putting in the effort to hit a few extra keys or if I just don't really want to talk. Do we really need spelling classes if we're just going to end up spelling only half or less than half of each word and inserting random numbers as substitutes for letters?
This turned out more to be a rant on technology. But now back to 'evolution'. Common sense just seems to fail us. We take all the new technology for granted and it seems like we are getting so lazy that we don't want to think anymore. We rely on technology more than ever and continue to try and take the easy way out of everything. Want to know something? Google it. Books themselves could become obsolete in a not so far future. As technology develops are we moving away from traditions and the foundation of society?
As technology moves to the forefront of society and we gradually rely on it more and more, people don't feel the need to do things that technology can do. Want to contact someone? Use e-mail/texting/facebook. Want to play a game? The computer has games. But don't these things isolate us as well? Will there be a point where there will be basically no actual contact with people outside of technology? People hardly talk to each other on the phone any more, instead they text empty words. I don't like the idea of living in a world where there is no talking and there are just words on a screen. Going back to my post about words, it's much easier to convey messages in person.
When someone that could talk to me in person decides that they want to talk to me online I don't like that. At all. I don't like that I feel like this because I feel like I have no grounds to, but I can't help it. Last year I wanted to talk to someone all the time, but whenever that person sent me a message online I didn't respond. I do feel bad about that, but if that person didn't even try to find me to talk to me when it wouldn't take much effort, then do they really even care? I know it's partially my fault, but I felt like I put forth the effort to try and talk to that person but it seemed like they didn't care. Maybe that person just felt like it was enough to talk online, but that just isn't enough to me. That's another one of my unfounded things I don't like.
Empty words in a text box can be very misleading. How do you know that right now I'm not extremely angry? You don't. And you would never know because you have to surmise everything you can from the text that's here to try and figure out how I feel. I can put a smiley face right here -> :] and you just assume that I'm happy.
This is my dilemma: I love talking to people online, but at the same time I despise it. Anybody can reply "I'm great" when asked "How are you?", but there is no way of knowing if they're lying. Maybe that seems trivial to you, but to me it's important. I hate the open interpretations a block of text can present. You can't see the person's reaction to what you've said, so you don't know if they understood what you meant. If they didn't understand, chances are they don't say anything about it, but if you were having that conversation in real life, you would be able to tell if they understood you or not. I like online chat for the reason that I can talk to people when I want to, but at the same time it feels impersonal.
What really bugs me is the textspeak that's being formed. It wouldn't surprise me much if it were made into its own language. "hi how r u" seems pathetic and lame. I admit that sometimes I do type like that, but that's when I either don't really feel like putting in the effort to hit a few extra keys or if I just don't really want to talk. Do we really need spelling classes if we're just going to end up spelling only half or less than half of each word and inserting random numbers as substitutes for letters?
This turned out more to be a rant on technology. But now back to 'evolution'. Common sense just seems to fail us. We take all the new technology for granted and it seems like we are getting so lazy that we don't want to think anymore. We rely on technology more than ever and continue to try and take the easy way out of everything. Want to know something? Google it. Books themselves could become obsolete in a not so far future. As technology develops are we moving away from traditions and the foundation of society?
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