There are many things I flat out do not understand or simply can't wrap my mind around. Some things are broad ideas, applicable to life, while others are specific happenings or concepts in the present time.
(As a side note, I think I need to find a new form of writing to express my ideas because these lists are getting old.)
1. Organic Chemistry. I have no clue how anyone understands all of the combinations and naming and special rules. It is a good thing that there are smart people in my class. The fact that I will never in life need organic chemistry also helps.
2. Why people automatically think the wrong decisions make you cool. Who decided that putting stuff into your body that could kill you is cool? Where did the idea of 'cool' come from in general?
3. The importance of sports vs. the arts in the eyes of school systems. Why is that schools fund sports more, care about sports more and give them priority over the arts? Sports are hardly beneficial to the students or even the community for that matter. Music, art and theatre do so much more.
4. The inexplicable quality of feelings. When you feel a certain way, often times, you can't explain your reasons for feeling that way. You find yourself falling for someone and there is nothing about them that would ever have hinted that you would before. You cannot pin-point the quality that drew you in, or what kept you admiring them. Maybe this irks me so much because I am a person who likes to have a reason for just about everything and know how things work. For me, simply because is not an answer. Maybe the reason you find yourself hooked on someone is the curriousity of the origin on your feelings in the first place. Once you discover that reason, what if the feeling just disappears?
Did you know that too many calories, carbohydrates, sugars, or even water can kill you? I guess you did, what with the whole gleaming generalization toward everyone who puts stuff in their body that can kill them. I knew a guy who put a gun in himself. No one thought he was cool for it. But, rest assured, if putting things that can kill you in your body is cool, you've got enough food to stay cool the rest of your gloriously uninformed life.
ReplyDelete3. The importance of sports vs. the arts in the eyes of school systems. Why is that schools fund sports more, care about sports more and give them priority over the arts? Sports are hardly beneficial to the students or even the community for that matter. Music, art and theatre do so much more.
ReplyDeleteHere's why. It's actually the basis of our entire economy. Supply and Demand. High school football games will be packed to the brim almost every Friday night come fall. At even five dollars a ticket, that's a lot of money. Marching band competitions, amateur art galleries, and musical productions are not only inefficient and difficult programs to put together, but also generate little to no revenue. If your next band concert makes more money than any of the football games for your school, please let the world know.
As for benefit to the community, music and arts usually only bring fulfillment to the few people directly involved, and perhaps their families and close friends. Sports provide a sense of camaraderie for an entire community, cheering their teams and youth to victory and glory, and somehow feeling a part of that victory just by standing in bleachers shouting. Am I saying that artistic outlets have no place in a public school setting? Absolutely not. They're (mostly) harmless and are a lot of fun for everyone involved, as I said. But from an investment standpoint, history is just going to show that sports have a higher financial benefit to the schools that are already on an extremely tight budget. Wildly claiming that ALL artistic activities have a higher place in public schools than any sport is not only flat-out incorrect, it's just lunacy. Perhaps you only say such things out of some misplaced sense of justification for what you enjoy.
One last thing: don't cower out of responding to and contesting my thoughts by just removing them and burying your head in the sand. I challenge you, comment back. Change my mind. I haven't had a good argument in a long time, and I'd like to see that change.
ReplyDeleteI'm mostly just happy that someone actually reads! I think what I meant about the whole arts vs. Sports thing is that it isn't fair to those who are musicians and artists and have no athletic skill whatsoever, but life isn't fair.
ReplyDeleteThe putting things into your body... well that was a subtle stab at some people I know who have made terrible descisions involving drugs and it just gets on my nerves.
See with my blog, I try and keep everything very general so I don't end up bashing people over the internet, I've seen it happen so many times and its worthless and ruins many things. I just keep it general so I can still get out my frustration with people and still get to write.