The Art of Maximizing Your Time

After reading “The Art of Maximizing Your Time”, I got a feel of our own discrimination against each and one another.  The discrimination I’m talking about is traits that separate us from everyone else in the world as individuals.  We all have our own unique traits, and ideas of the world.  Sometimes some people are scared to express themselves, and show themselves to the world, and instead try to bring the other person that’s not afraid to stand out, down.

  Expressing yourself is hard.  Society says “Be Yourself”.  But when you step out of their expectations of “normal people”, they almost judge you like a horde of vicious wolves in a pack.  I tend to notice this happens in school settings a lot.

 I feel like some people in school are confused, and self conflicted of who they are, and how they stand in their “friends” eyes.  As a result, they bother anybody who is different from their protective bubble.  The traits that are “Weird” in someone’s eyes in school, is what is applauded in the adult world.  Take Lady Gaga as an example.

  Lady Gaga is a pop Icon, and a cultural phenomenon in the entertainment industry, and society.  When Lady Gaga was in school, she mentioned how people didn’t understand her, and called her “Weird”, and a “Freak” because she was different.  Those “Weird” qualities are what she is applauded for in the real world.  Lady Gaga is now an award winning music artist, because of her unique traits.

It’s ok to stand out.  The people that judge are just scared and insecure.  They want to show the world who they are as much as you do, but they just don’t know how.  In this world, there’s the pack of wolves, and then there is the lone wolf.

 Sometimes, some people express themselves in a pack of wolves, and then sometimes the lone wolf can express themselves alone with their inner qualities.  This is human nature, and this will always continue through century, to century.

Circle of Life

At 5: the world is so big and exciting!

At 13: Get away from me! I want to be cool because I just turned 13, and I am easily influenced by my bffs.

At 16: I’m independent, I know my where I’m going, and I FINALLY know how to drive, and I don’t need anybody in my life!  Mom, can I borrow money?

At 18: I’m free!!!!! #YOLO

At 21: I have a college degree, and I have to pay off my student loans.  I wonder what my old high school friends are up to these days?

At 30: Crap!  I’m getting old.  I think I just discovered my first wrinkle. I’ve split apart from all of my friends, and I now have a family.

At 45: I’m getting too old.

50:  Hello Midlife crisis! I will now do stupid things because I am insecure about my appearance, and age by acting like a sixteen year old in high school! #Attemptingtobeyoung

60: Maybe I will just sit in my apartment, and walk on the beach everyday.

70: My hair is grey.

85:  Tbh: These young people are annoying.

95: R.I.P.

The Art Of Collecting Lightbulbs

When I read "The Art of Collecting Lightbulbs", I noticed that in our own way, we have our own artistic hobbies, despite that particular hobby being bad or good.  Some people collect different items, and some others may draw.  Some people like to sing, while some people like to write or act.  Some people may even dance, paint, or do photography.  The bottom line is, we need art to survive whether we admit it or not.  Art makes us express ourselves, and art makes us happy.

Humans are very expressive creatures. We usually express ourselves because we have to feel that inner reach of connection that is paved inside ourselves.  Whether we like it or not, expression is our own addiction. 

Even though we all have our own hobbies, each one of us is a self-expressionist  inside.  As the world keeps changing, we can only look to ourselves and then show the world what we can all do individually

The Art of Making Art Without Lifting a Finger

 After reading “The Art of Making Art Without A Finger”, I noticed something really interesting in this particular chapter. I noticed that this chapter claimed life is like art.  Personally, I have always had that belief.  For example, when you’re in a conversation with someone, there is an acting element to it.  We often do not realize it, but almost every time we talk to someone, we’re being improv actors.  Improv acting is being quick on your feet in a scene, and that’s how conversations are.  There is more than just being improv actors in everyday life.  When we are walking down the street and notice many surroundings, we are being cinematographers, capturing everything around us that we see.  When we remember something, we are looking back at photographs in our head.  At this very moment, we are being photographers looking at old photographs. Our dreams that we dream are like novels in a story. They have a beginning, middle, and end, with a dash of imagination.  If you look closer, everything in your own life is an art.  We don’t see it, but we feel it.

Are We All Autistic?

I talked about how I saw a play called “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time” in my last post. This masterpiece was about a boy named Christopher.  Christopher struggles with an impacting disease called Autism.  When I was done yesterday with the play, I started to think about how autism is overly diagnosed in America.  This had me think of a specific question: Are we all Autistic in our own way? I say this because I noticed that Christopher showed some quirks that an average person might have.

 He was quirky, intelligent, knows what he wants, very determined, disorganized, and a little slow.   When we’re hyper, we’re quirky because we’re really happy.  When we are in our intellectual mood, we are intelligent.  When we want something really badly, we became determined to not let anything get in our way.  We can also be disorganized in either our head, or putting material together.  Sometimes, we can’t process certain things because how a certain thing is being said.

 There are more quirks that I noticed that are in both Autistic people, and regular people.  I’m only listing a few, but  I just feel that if we stop over labeling people with Autism, we will all realize how truly connected we each are to one another.

NYC Trip

I went on my first STAC trip yesterday!!  This trip was definitely different than any field trip I’ve ever taken.  I loved every aspect of it!  I love how we have all this freedom on the trip, and how we can do whatever we want to do.  To be honest, I really don’t think I ever went to a school field trip to the city.  Well, there’s always a first for everything!  When I was in the city yesterday, a lot of memories came back to me.  My first home was on 96^th street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for the first five years of my life.  So when I was walking around yesterday, all of these memories started to come back of my days living in the big apple.  

We went to the Noya Gallery, the Met, Central Park, Time Square, and we saw a phenomenal play based off a book called “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time”.  

This trip is honestly the best field trip I’ve ever taken in school, and I can’t wait for more STAC adventures in the city!