How We're Really Gonna Die

I got home at 3... it's 8.... I haven't gotten up in the past two hours yet I haven't finished my first homework. Damn computer... I get distracted easily.... for this I sympathize with those with ADD who take online courses.

So I'm convinced technology will eventually be what kills humankind. It has it's own way of corrupting us, first it lures you in because everything is no new and innovative, we are curious beings. It hooks you because it makes everything easier, we are lazy beings. It's entertaining, we get addicted. It allows for anonymity, something all humans long for. To be nosy and not be thought of as nosy or tell on someone and not be the snitch, to think that the online world is separate than reality therefore has no repercussions.

Technology allows for constant and international communication. It also allows for immunity to empathy, to sadness, impressionability. It allows for all around carelessness. Face it, we are weak and we morph and succumb easily, we have done this o ourselves. I, personally, have become more of a procrastinator, feel less need to actually learn because all I need to know is available on my blackberry, along with all the people I know and have met since 2007 when I created my facebook account, Google, calculator, Microsoft. Things like twitter and facebook and myspace create the possibility to not need to be or see or even verbally express concerns to anyone, it eliminates human contact.

Because we see all tragedies semi-first hand as we see videos 30 minutes after they happen or have separate conversations at the same time thus saving time, we fail to knowledge that this is in great part what we've been looking for, what's wrong with society.

Finally, I state that I have no plans of forfitting my technological devices nor expect anyone who reads this to. And having stated the former, I doubt anyone will find this interesting, take this to heart or simply care. It's just what's been on my mind.

Stranger Disclosure

Once again, we're at the time of reconsideration, creating false goals, looking back on what we did wrong but most of all being excessively optimistic of the upcoming year. Personally I hope for basic things:
To not die, let something exciting happen, be satisfied once again with my life... once a year is enough. However, that whole making goals for yourself might as well be part of my life… so much for tradition.
Be healthy as in lose weight and be bikini healthy (especially since the trip to Africa made me fat)
Be more accepting, acknowledge that my brother is graduating and be ok with it
Acknowledge that time passes and rather that hate that, enjoy it
feel without thinking it twice
be a teenager

 
So, my trip to Africa brought for me a whole new realm of new experiences, nature-wise and other. Especially full personal disclosure to strangers and from them. Once I talked literally to a guy I met the day before about actual important topics and sharing something incredibly awkward yet at the same time completely natural, I have concluded that human nature only further confuses me. Isn't that just wonderful? Why… I'll just be coherent to this with another motto of mine … let it be, allow it to exist, no necessary reason or explanation simply recognize that things sometimes just are. so since this blog is mainly for me cause no one reads it, lets keep this in mind.