Monday, September 20, 2010

Breaking Routine

Most days I come home from school, pick a flower from my garden and head straight for the computer to which I am then attached to for the next hour or so. I then go on to search random things and people and continue waste my own time when I could be doing somathing productive like studying for my next test or doing homework or assignments. So why do I do this? Well mainly because I'm bored though everytime I do it I am forming a new habit or reinforcing an old one. So why is it that I then expect things to magically change if I don't even make an effort for them to? The truth is I don't really know maybe it's because the world we live in has become so instant I mean like the internet is almost instant and if it is just a tiny bit slow we get annoyed so maybe that's what we think change is sometimes just an instant burst of something different not a progression. I'm not saying routine is bad as it gives us an idea of what to expect but sometimes it's good to change things and mix it up a little. After all changes in our lives can make us better people no matter how small the change is for instance if you decide that you will say "hi" to someone you usually wouldn't then you might end up having a conversation and making a new friend or if you decide to say please and thankyou more often then someone might feel more appreciated. So as you can see sometimes change isn't instant you have to make it happen and it's only when you look back that you see just how far you've come.

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Perfection

Perfection-This is  defined as the act of perfecting or a state of being perfect. So why is it that we try so hard to acheive it in everything we do?
Is it our fear of failure that pushes us to be perfect?
Or is it because we want everything to live up to our expectations and to do that it has to be perfect to the last detail or be the exact same as we imagined it?
But the real question is why do we try? After all we have all tried to be perfect and no matter how hard we try we never seem to acheive it, in fact we seem to end up more disappointed than we would've been if we hadn't wanted everything to be perfect. But in the end sometimes what we didn't expect sometimes turns out to be better than we could have imagined. I know because at Christmas everyone hopes that people just read their mind and surprise them with what they always wanted which they often don't. But when we expected those things we were disappointed to find something else making us disregard how great what we got is. But I'm not saying that we shouldn't expect things to happen only to make sure that we don't always think that things will happen the way we expect them to or to happen at all and to just take things as they come and appreciate them for what they are not for what they aren't.