Post by marcmanheim on Aug 8, 2011 14:48:44 GMT -5
I am already very familiar with some the organization kid. I have heard many of my class mates talking about how they went to sleep at 1 or so only to get up at 6 to be ready for swim practice or another extracurricular. I also have a very hard time comprehending how someone could be this way because the organization kid is simply so different from myself. Just look at my binders and stuff after a few week s of school and you will understand. I’m the kind of person who would rather just sit and think than to do something of mild difficulty. When I read Facebook posts about people who complain of boredom, I get a little confused because the lack of things to do is normally quite enjoyable to me. While yes, laziness like that exhibited in myself is not a positive feature, I’m reasonably certain that getting only five hours of sleep on a daily basis is also pretty bad for you.
Other aspects of the organization kid however were completely new to me. The section that I found particularly shocking was that on the younger elementary school population. I will be interested to see if the is an increase in depression in thirty years or so as middle aged individuals realize that they effectively lost their childhood. Enjoying oneself and living life to the fullest is one of the things that defines us as being human and is apparently an undesirable aspect to some. Then there’s the “issue” of the child’s “safety”. Having just finished the poisonwood bible, this segment was even more aggravating. It all depends on whether or not the fear is realistic. At one point, the author mentions a toilet covering designed to keep the child from drowning in the toilet. I honestly don’t think I could do that if I tried. While making children safer is a good thing, it (like being studious) has its limits. This is going to sound really awful at first but just think for a second; what happens when the child goes out into the real world where the ground is hard, violence exists, and there are unprotected toilets? While protecting ones child is a good instinct and a necessary one, it is just as important to get the child ready for the real world, and not just through devoting ones time to schoolwork.
Before I started writing these posts, I told myself that I would do them without having Facebook open and getting drawn away by distractions. After reading the article however, I decided to do just that. I don’t think straying away from work has ever felt so good. While sitting here on my safety-less spinny chair of awesome and working on school assignments might be important for getting into collage and whatnot, it’s still summer vacation and you only get one childhood so you might as well make the most of it. The key to success and happiness is moderation. Putting both time into working and having a good time without stressing about either of them.
PS: Charlie Brown on Prozac = Amazing advertisement idea
Other aspects of the organization kid however were completely new to me. The section that I found particularly shocking was that on the younger elementary school population. I will be interested to see if the is an increase in depression in thirty years or so as middle aged individuals realize that they effectively lost their childhood. Enjoying oneself and living life to the fullest is one of the things that defines us as being human and is apparently an undesirable aspect to some. Then there’s the “issue” of the child’s “safety”. Having just finished the poisonwood bible, this segment was even more aggravating. It all depends on whether or not the fear is realistic. At one point, the author mentions a toilet covering designed to keep the child from drowning in the toilet. I honestly don’t think I could do that if I tried. While making children safer is a good thing, it (like being studious) has its limits. This is going to sound really awful at first but just think for a second; what happens when the child goes out into the real world where the ground is hard, violence exists, and there are unprotected toilets? While protecting ones child is a good instinct and a necessary one, it is just as important to get the child ready for the real world, and not just through devoting ones time to schoolwork.
Before I started writing these posts, I told myself that I would do them without having Facebook open and getting drawn away by distractions. After reading the article however, I decided to do just that. I don’t think straying away from work has ever felt so good. While sitting here on my safety-less spinny chair of awesome and working on school assignments might be important for getting into collage and whatnot, it’s still summer vacation and you only get one childhood so you might as well make the most of it. The key to success and happiness is moderation. Putting both time into working and having a good time without stressing about either of them.
PS: Charlie Brown on Prozac = Amazing advertisement idea