The more you learn, the less you know; does that not sound crazy or what? You learn something new everyday; the older you get, the more you learn, but does that mean you know more? Two concecutive uses of semi-colons! Alright, I am so acing my next essay =D
When I was watching some videos today, I realized something. As life progresses, the more you learn from all the experiences you gain, the less you actually know. Do you see what I'm getting at? Everytime you learn something new that you find interesting, it just opens up more questions about that certain thing or other things. Kind of like the show Heroes. Yes, I am promoting that show right now. I'll admit the second season was not nearly as good as the first season, but hey, it's the sophomore jynx right? The third season has been running for a month or so now, and I have to say that the writers for this show are absolute genius'. Each show you watch, you're left hanging and you just have a billion questions about what is going on and what will happen next. That is exactly what I'm trying to get at here! I don't want to spoil anything here but everytime they reveal something, you are so amazed and you are left with so many questions that branched from one event. It's just amazing.. both the show and the concept.
So here's to never stop learning, simply because it's impossible. Even the extremist who chooses to set their minds focuses on not learning anything. By doing that, they learn about themself that they are able to live without learning, and then they learn that it is impossible to not learn. By this, they will know that they can't seem to not learn and this will cause them to spring many questions and alternatives to what they could maybe achieve or attempt to achieve from this experience.
Don't stop wiggle, wiggle.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Work Ethic
Well, I haven't had a rant type of thing in a while and I believe I have to end that streak now. I normally do not like to worry or be negative about things, but I just feel like helping myself make a bit of a declaration to make a change in my life that is needed.
Ever since grade 7, my need to do homework or study had gone down so much that my work ethic dissolved into nothingness. Throughout junior high, I barely needed to study, even for the bigger exams. I was able to get by with my common sense coming out with pretty good marks at the end of grade 9. I think that if I had to guess how much time I spent studying in all three years of junior high, it would have to amount to about four or five hours of productive studying - no more. Then grade 10 came, a new chapter, a new world. I was still able to not do much work to finish the year with honors. There were signs though that the lack of working would eventually take it's toll and catch up to me making me pay for my laziness. And finally, in grade 11, I took heavy, heavy drops in my grades because I simply did not do homework or study. My marks dropped at such a fast rate that I could not even believe that I was getting these marks. There was no hiding it. My parents wanted me to do good, they even gave me incentives to work; The standards that I were to meet kept getting lower and lower but I still could not get them.
Then grade 12 started and that is when I hit my low with these things called grades. I was fortunate enough to recover by the end of the year to get an average very close to honors but my lack of working was still evident. It has been something that I am constantly being reminded of and something I have been trying to correct for a very long time. The laziness I have developed has turned into my biggest weakness as a person. I am so lucky that this weakness of mine doesn't affect anyone other than me. Then again, it disappoints my parents to have to see me doing nothing all day and could possibly give them a sense that I just don't want to try, which is not the case at all. I mean, everyone has something that they need improvements in. It's very obvious that someone is only as strong as their weakest point. The thing with me is that my laziness is so strong in me, I could have the biggest determination in the world and still end up doing no more than a math assignment or two. It bothers me daily and I wish very much that I can fix this problem of mine, but as of right now, it just isn't working. Building up over six years of my life, it isn't something that will just happen overnight where I wake up the next day and have the world of a work ethic.
I believe I have the right mindset because I always wake up everyday looking forward to what the day gives me and how I respond to things. The only problem is executing. I am just absolutely horrible at it. I would tell people that I need to go home to do homework or to study with good intentions. But when I get home, everything falls apart and I am found doing something else. I wake up, go to school, come home, play some guitar, go on my laptop, watch TV, go on the laptop, play guitar, eat supper, go on laptop, play some guitar, and finally go to sleep. That is what most of my days look like with an odd occassion of an hour or so to finish an assignment. I am getting owned for my lack of studying; homework gets finished for sure, but barely.
I guess all I can do is just keep with my mindset and have patience with myself. Six years of my young life seems like alot, but like I said, I am still young and to be able to change myself comes alot easier now than 20 or 30 years down the road. I am still positive with myself to set goals each morning to get a certain amount finished. Of course, I finish each day disappointed that I have done next to nothing, but I believe that, like everything else, each day my determination will grow stronger and stronger and I am sure I will eventually be able to break this habit of laziness because that's just the way life works.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - the Great One. Everyone should have heard this before. So if you may have similar situations that I face, I encourage you to, no matter how hopeless it seems, to keep your attention in the right place and to be determined for change. It is better for you to atleast give it a shot than to do nothing at all but whine, because when you tell your mind to try, you create chance for success no matter how small it is.
Now let's see what happens with my math midterm tomorrow.
Ever since grade 7, my need to do homework or study had gone down so much that my work ethic dissolved into nothingness. Throughout junior high, I barely needed to study, even for the bigger exams. I was able to get by with my common sense coming out with pretty good marks at the end of grade 9. I think that if I had to guess how much time I spent studying in all three years of junior high, it would have to amount to about four or five hours of productive studying - no more. Then grade 10 came, a new chapter, a new world. I was still able to not do much work to finish the year with honors. There were signs though that the lack of working would eventually take it's toll and catch up to me making me pay for my laziness. And finally, in grade 11, I took heavy, heavy drops in my grades because I simply did not do homework or study. My marks dropped at such a fast rate that I could not even believe that I was getting these marks. There was no hiding it. My parents wanted me to do good, they even gave me incentives to work; The standards that I were to meet kept getting lower and lower but I still could not get them.
Then grade 12 started and that is when I hit my low with these things called grades. I was fortunate enough to recover by the end of the year to get an average very close to honors but my lack of working was still evident. It has been something that I am constantly being reminded of and something I have been trying to correct for a very long time. The laziness I have developed has turned into my biggest weakness as a person. I am so lucky that this weakness of mine doesn't affect anyone other than me. Then again, it disappoints my parents to have to see me doing nothing all day and could possibly give them a sense that I just don't want to try, which is not the case at all. I mean, everyone has something that they need improvements in. It's very obvious that someone is only as strong as their weakest point. The thing with me is that my laziness is so strong in me, I could have the biggest determination in the world and still end up doing no more than a math assignment or two. It bothers me daily and I wish very much that I can fix this problem of mine, but as of right now, it just isn't working. Building up over six years of my life, it isn't something that will just happen overnight where I wake up the next day and have the world of a work ethic.
I believe I have the right mindset because I always wake up everyday looking forward to what the day gives me and how I respond to things. The only problem is executing. I am just absolutely horrible at it. I would tell people that I need to go home to do homework or to study with good intentions. But when I get home, everything falls apart and I am found doing something else. I wake up, go to school, come home, play some guitar, go on my laptop, watch TV, go on the laptop, play guitar, eat supper, go on laptop, play some guitar, and finally go to sleep. That is what most of my days look like with an odd occassion of an hour or so to finish an assignment. I am getting owned for my lack of studying; homework gets finished for sure, but barely.
I guess all I can do is just keep with my mindset and have patience with myself. Six years of my young life seems like alot, but like I said, I am still young and to be able to change myself comes alot easier now than 20 or 30 years down the road. I am still positive with myself to set goals each morning to get a certain amount finished. Of course, I finish each day disappointed that I have done next to nothing, but I believe that, like everything else, each day my determination will grow stronger and stronger and I am sure I will eventually be able to break this habit of laziness because that's just the way life works.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - the Great One. Everyone should have heard this before. So if you may have similar situations that I face, I encourage you to, no matter how hopeless it seems, to keep your attention in the right place and to be determined for change. It is better for you to atleast give it a shot than to do nothing at all but whine, because when you tell your mind to try, you create chance for success no matter how small it is.
Now let's see what happens with my math midterm tomorrow.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Guitaring
So uhh, (how many have my posts started like that, haha) I'd been granted permission by Andrea to join in her PT practice this past saturday to play a bit of guitar. Now for those of you that don't know, I don't own an amp because it is too expensive; I do not own one of those adaptor things to plug my earphones in either. With this lack of resourse, I cannot practice guitar on a regular basis-electric guitar, that is. The only time I do get to play with my electric is once every three weeks for an hour or so during practice at church. Whenever I do get to play though, I have to sing as well.. Yeah that's right, I sing, not very good at it but I do indeed sing.
Being able to join in on practice was pretty cool I think. I got to just play guitar and not have to think about singing. When I was heading over to church, I told myself "I can finally have a chance to just make music with the guitar, see how much I've improved." Playing today alongside Jonny and Deryk was pretty cool. It definitely brought back the times before I actually led a worship team of just being able to focus on guitar. When I started playing, I said to myself, "wow, I've gotten so much better without even practicing for ages!" I was pretty excited for sure. It's pretty cool how knowledge of music can translate into sweet new things on the guitar for me. A weird thing about me is that everytime I learn something new about music, whether that be a chord, a progression, a sequence, or whatever, I am able to see a whole load of stuff I can apply it to on either songs, piano or guitar. I don't know, I look forward to the next coolest thing I learn on the guitar.. Maybe some different patches and stuff
My passion for the guitar has been renewed, the joy I get from it is like none before, I feel like learning guitar songs, and definitely look forward to my next guitar jam session with whoever... Guess what? I seem to have forgotten what I wanted to say again. Thank you msn for distracting me while I'm trying to blog! But while one thought was lost, another has risen.
These are the guitar products I am currently saving up for:
Line 6 POD X3 Live
A good chunk of durable picks (100 or so)
The POD X3 Live is rather expensive... So that's stab me in the chest pretty hard when I save enough money and buy it.
Keep on rockin' to it. Please don't stop the music.
Being able to join in on practice was pretty cool I think. I got to just play guitar and not have to think about singing. When I was heading over to church, I told myself "I can finally have a chance to just make music with the guitar, see how much I've improved." Playing today alongside Jonny and Deryk was pretty cool. It definitely brought back the times before I actually led a worship team of just being able to focus on guitar. When I started playing, I said to myself, "wow, I've gotten so much better without even practicing for ages!" I was pretty excited for sure. It's pretty cool how knowledge of music can translate into sweet new things on the guitar for me. A weird thing about me is that everytime I learn something new about music, whether that be a chord, a progression, a sequence, or whatever, I am able to see a whole load of stuff I can apply it to on either songs, piano or guitar. I don't know, I look forward to the next coolest thing I learn on the guitar.. Maybe some different patches and stuff
My passion for the guitar has been renewed, the joy I get from it is like none before, I feel like learning guitar songs, and definitely look forward to my next guitar jam session with whoever... Guess what? I seem to have forgotten what I wanted to say again. Thank you msn for distracting me while I'm trying to blog! But while one thought was lost, another has risen.
These are the guitar products I am currently saving up for:
Line 6 POD X3 Live
A good chunk of durable picks (100 or so)
The POD X3 Live is rather expensive... So that's stab me in the chest pretty hard when I save enough money and buy it.
Keep on rockin' to it. Please don't stop the music.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Childlike Wildlife
I cannot put enough stress on how important someone's childhood is. I don't even know if anyone cares enough to remember what their childhood was like. My childhood is amongst my top values in my own life. When you think back to being a kid, what do you see? For me, I see a few things that stand out right away. As a child, you are pure, innocent, clean, and to an extent oblivious. When I was a kid, still am in a way but not for long, I was very free, I didn't worry about life itself, I didn't have all these stresses that an adult life can bring. Life was very adventurous, each day brings a new and refreshing experience as you begin to build your life of morals and beliefs and values. I personally think you learn more in the first chunk of your life than you do the rest of it combined. Some may agree, some might not, that's fine. A child's life is so precious because these first ten or so years of a life defines what the person is like for much of the years ahead of him/her. If a child is raised a certain way, it only makes sense that the child has that type of a personality unless something drastic happens.
Where I'm going with this, is that I heavily encourage people that even though we grow older, as we mature, we should keep the child-like spirit of freedom and adventure no matter where we go. "Staying young at heart" is a term thats probably more commonly used to describe this. Umm, I'm not sure how someone may view this topic, but to me, it's how I can stay so "free" and relaxed all the time.
There was a couple times where I got asked how I would be able to keep up with this persistance and blog or write so often about so many things. This question ultimately lead me to typing this blog entry, yay. But I often tell people that it's about where you choose to put your attention. As life gets older, things become more routine-like; meaning you wake up, go to school/work, work your butt off, go home and go to sleep and repeat. Doesn't this bore you? Then you could probably ask, "then how do you keep it fresh?" Like I said, it's about what you choose to look at. This is where the child's mind comes into play.
You live each day as if you're starting a new life, then you go out and wait for things to come your way. It's not hard, you just have to look in the right places. Even if it means, daydreaming in class, you shouldn't let your mind prevent you from having a good time. Just let loose once in a while. Sometimes you just feel like dancing, singing, jumping.. but then your mind suddenly comes and tells you "hey man, that's not cool, people will think you're weird." It may not be that extreme but you should just let it happen. It allows you to be so much more freer in a sense that you experience something new everyday. By allowing things to just happen, you come into contact with so much more and you kinda just feed off of that. Let the environment around you influence you, then you'll be filled with thoughts and all that kind of cool things. Dwelling amongst the world is a pretty fun thing once you get used to it, if you ask me.
A big reason why people will stress or worry is because they let it get into their mind's way. Just take each task one at a time, sit down, work at it, and when you're finished, you can just slap it in the face and be like "done with you." Then move on.
... And my train of thought dies. If you've read everything up to right now, I wouldn't be surprised if you are confused out of your mind. I pretty much just sat here and wrote for the past half an hour; I know it isn't alot but you have to take into account the distractions of msn. So I mentioned a few things about a child's free mind in there and that's what I did. Something inspired me today and I decided that I'm gonna let this topic into my head, then I'm just going to write about it until my thoughts end. As for the meanings of this, I'll let whoever stumbles upon it to interpret it in whatever way you want, whether that be inspiration or just insightful knowledge. Afterall, it wouldn't be cool if I tried to indoctrinate people into living the loser-ish life that I live right? =D But ultimately, what I'm trying to say is that we should keep a childish side to us.. One that's slightly foolish, daring, adventurous; this keeps things new in life. This is how I get my inspiration to make the creations in my contemplation indoctrination, a beautiful fixation as you find yourself surrounded by His love and mercy. Try it. It's worth every moment.
Much thanks to Jason Mraz and the comfort of God's grace as my top inspiration to live high and righteously
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