An inconvenient Truth: Time Never Stops.

Time never stops for anyone. I hate that. 

But, it's not even the fact that it doesn't stop that bothers me the most. What bothers me the most is that it doesn't feel like a light jog; It feels like a sprint. 

It's like, one day you're six years old and you're having a great time and it feels like this is going to be your life forever, then before you know it you're getting ready to go off to college.

I wish time moved more slowly, I wish I actually had time to smell the roses.

In class a few weeks ago, we were talking about something called entropy, which is when someone goes to a perfect state to big jumbled mess, or when something simply just gets older. For example, the rust on this clock is entropy.

I feel like entropy is taking over my life, I just keep getting older and older and things are getting way more complicated. Life gets complicated.

When you're little, everything is done for you, your under the comfort of your parents roof and they take care of you and your needs... Everything is perfect.

As we get older, you become more and more responsible for things, you have school, you have work, you have a social life, you're trying to save money for college and dances and activities... It gets messy and I usually just end up with a massive headache.

However, in some ways, entropy can be a beautiful thing too. Without it, there wouldn't be character to life, nothing interesting, nothing to learn from or observe.

Time plays the biggest part in entropy, but sometimes it's hard to keep up the pace. I need to slow down; life needs to slow down, time needs to slow down.

Blogging Around: Brittany and Annie E.

Brittany: Brittany, I see you've gotten a lot of responses to this post- as you should!! This was a great post and it was very relate-able, I think about going away all the time and it scares me constantly. "Good-byes" always seem to make their way into my head and it always puts a damper on my day. Your post got me thinking of new ways to handle the hard good-byes and it shed a little light on the subject. I loved this a lot!


Annie: Annie, I love this post and I agree 100%. I believe technology has given us power we don't know how to handle. We have become socially awkward and we abuse technology in a number of ways. Social websites are for staying in touch to those out of reach- not stalking our neighbors.great post, I hope we learn to better use technology in the future!

Change of Mind: The Ugly House Down the Street.

So, for the past four years of my life, I have gone to Glenbrook South High School. Beautiful school, really. However, just down the road of GBS there is this house.. It's completely made of different colored tiles that look as if they belong on the bathroom floor, the proportions are off and the shape of the house looks disfigured.

To say the least, I hate that house.

I like houses that look like the average American house. White pick-it fence, wrap around porch with a swing, a nice big year with an American flag flying high on the front lawn. Something like this: 

The house I'm talking about now is just the complete opposite. I think it's a total disaster.

So, the other day in class, Mr. Allen was talking about what is called "Modern" and "Postmodernism". Modernism is my white pick-it house, it's what's always been there, it's normal. Postmodernism is deep, it has different meanings and perspectives.

After learning and seeing different examples of modern and postmodern building I'm starting to understand the ugly house down the street a little bit more, but I still hate it. I get that it's supposed to be out there and edgy but I'd much rather stay in my cute little all-american house.

My change in mind is that I will tolerate the existence of that house, but I personally would never live in it, would you?