Thursday, August 31, 2017

Craving Experience

Ever since I can remember, experiencing everything (or at least as much as I can) has been my life goal. I want to know what everything is and how everyone feels everything, and I hate missing out. 

I try to do everything I can. I do three sports (swimming, basketball, and soccer). This semester I'm taking 2 U of I classes (I wanted to take more but after some explaining from my parents that I would not survive, I settled for 2) and I only have one true free period, because I can't bring myself to sacrifice any interesting uni classes. Next semester, I have the same plan, take all the uni classes that I've always wanted, but also take all the U of I classes I can pile on.

I pile a lot onto my schedule, but if I were to have more free time, I would not make any productive use of it. I would either spend time procrastinating on all responsibilities or spend more time binge watching tv-shows.

The latter, is how I spend probably 70-90% of my current free time. While it is possible that I'm just a TV addict, I think that watching tv shows with varying subjects can really teach me about different people and their psychologies. 
I can get a feel for how each of the characters is going to react and the more I understand the characters, the faster I can try to figure out the psychologies of real people. I also treat TV shows as a fast way to gather mass information about a subject (i.e. I can now identify if a skeleton is male or female at a glance, thanks to Bones).  

Ultimately, I know that I can't experience everything, or even come close to be honest (http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/), but I'm always gonna fill my life with all the experiences I can; and but I've often said that if, by some chance of fate, I end up being immortal, I'm gonna spend a lifetime in each society in the world, so I can learn and study everything there is.