HEY!
So, I know that you may be expecting some juicy details about the PSAT, but I can barely remember that far into the morning, much more important things than the test that determines my future courses happened today!
The test was really mostly a blur. I could barely get my head on strait. Stupid me was near a window.
After our 12:30 dismissal, everyone just sort of walked over to the mall. I have never ever recognized so many people at the mall!
Anyways, we pooled all of our money together ($45 between 6 people) and we went to Johnny Rockets and pretended it was Ella's birthday!
Afterwords, we sort of wandered the mall a bit. We played a game of hide-and-go-seek which ultimately ended with Ella and I desperate on the corner of Forever 21 and Express, when all of a sudden I saw Eleanor and Rai's blue sweater. It was just a slight little glimpse of the sweater, but then I saw Eleanor bobbing up and down in her energetic way, and the rest is history!
We went to a bunch of random stores, sniffing perfumes and candles, seeing clothes that we will probably never buy :(
Maia is so funny! She is the ultimate person for opinions on sales and things. Eleanor on the other hand, knows all about perfume, since she went to some summer program for scents in the city!
After leaving the mall, and going home, I stopped by Tulsi's and we had a pretty interesting conversation.
Tulsi brought up the point that whenever she reads books and things, books where the main characters have powers/amazing lives, she ultimately wishes that she could be in their world.
In those worlds, people can make whatever they want of their lives, and control them with efficiency in some ways... They can do whatever they want to do...
I added that that's why people like certain kinds of video games, ones where you are the creator, and you get to control what your player does, and what job your player gets. Nothing is standing in your way.
But wait. Isn't that what we do now?
This sort of conversation is based off of the idea that in the real world, we DON'T get to do what we want, and that we DON'T get to make our own decisions and control our lives. So we need to live out those fantasies in forms of media like books and video games.
Do we control our lives? Or don't we?
As humans, we do get to make many decisions. However, I guess what Tulsi and I sort of based our conversation off of is the notion that obstacles in the real world prevent us from fulfilling our dreams the way that we wanted to. We don't get to always get what we want. People and places and things stand in the way from us making certain decisions that we want to make.
That got me thinking. There are only a hand full of decisions that we get to make as human beings that are not somehow influenced by another need or obstacle.
These decisions are mostly behavioral.
How do you treat your best friend? Your superiors? How do you treat the old lady on the bus? What do you say when you know that someone is hurting?
When someone is in a bad mood, and you cheer them up, how does that make you feel? It makes you feel good. Well, not good, amazing.
We DON'T always get to choose what school we go to, or which people surround us, or what kind of atmosphere we are in. But, we DO get to choose how we treat those people in that atmosphere. So, maybe in the real world, we don't get to create our dream lives! But, we can always, always, always control one thing. How we speak. (Both figuratively and physically)
My point is mostly that we can all feel like we have superpowers and can fly, like those characters in books, just by altering the way that we interact with people...
No one needs a wand to cast some magic spells.
-D.F.T.B.A.-
Mina
Blegh Sappy....
So, I know that you may be expecting some juicy details about the PSAT, but I can barely remember that far into the morning, much more important things than the test that determines my future courses happened today!
The test was really mostly a blur. I could barely get my head on strait. Stupid me was near a window.
After our 12:30 dismissal, everyone just sort of walked over to the mall. I have never ever recognized so many people at the mall!
Anyways, we pooled all of our money together ($45 between 6 people) and we went to Johnny Rockets and pretended it was Ella's birthday!
Afterwords, we sort of wandered the mall a bit. We played a game of hide-and-go-seek which ultimately ended with Ella and I desperate on the corner of Forever 21 and Express, when all of a sudden I saw Eleanor and Rai's blue sweater. It was just a slight little glimpse of the sweater, but then I saw Eleanor bobbing up and down in her energetic way, and the rest is history!
We went to a bunch of random stores, sniffing perfumes and candles, seeing clothes that we will probably never buy :(
Maia is so funny! She is the ultimate person for opinions on sales and things. Eleanor on the other hand, knows all about perfume, since she went to some summer program for scents in the city!
After leaving the mall, and going home, I stopped by Tulsi's and we had a pretty interesting conversation.
Tulsi brought up the point that whenever she reads books and things, books where the main characters have powers/amazing lives, she ultimately wishes that she could be in their world.
In those worlds, people can make whatever they want of their lives, and control them with efficiency in some ways... They can do whatever they want to do...
I added that that's why people like certain kinds of video games, ones where you are the creator, and you get to control what your player does, and what job your player gets. Nothing is standing in your way.
But wait. Isn't that what we do now?
This sort of conversation is based off of the idea that in the real world, we DON'T get to do what we want, and that we DON'T get to make our own decisions and control our lives. So we need to live out those fantasies in forms of media like books and video games.
Do we control our lives? Or don't we?
As humans, we do get to make many decisions. However, I guess what Tulsi and I sort of based our conversation off of is the notion that obstacles in the real world prevent us from fulfilling our dreams the way that we wanted to. We don't get to always get what we want. People and places and things stand in the way from us making certain decisions that we want to make.
That got me thinking. There are only a hand full of decisions that we get to make as human beings that are not somehow influenced by another need or obstacle.
These decisions are mostly behavioral.
How do you treat your best friend? Your superiors? How do you treat the old lady on the bus? What do you say when you know that someone is hurting?
When someone is in a bad mood, and you cheer them up, how does that make you feel? It makes you feel good. Well, not good, amazing.
We DON'T always get to choose what school we go to, or which people surround us, or what kind of atmosphere we are in. But, we DO get to choose how we treat those people in that atmosphere. So, maybe in the real world, we don't get to create our dream lives! But, we can always, always, always control one thing. How we speak. (Both figuratively and physically)
My point is mostly that we can all feel like we have superpowers and can fly, like those characters in books, just by altering the way that we interact with people...
No one needs a wand to cast some magic spells.
-D.F.T.B.A.-
Mina
Blegh Sappy....
"No one needs a wand to cast some magic spells." That sounds like something a great philosopher would say. The Great Yasmine the Philosopher!
ReplyDelete~Gracie
Grace, you cast magic spells ALL OF THE TIME!
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