Deaf Driving

I saw a lady driving yesterday that was signing to a girl in the seat next to her - how do you deal with things like being deaf in circumstances that don't particularly allow it? And is it right to drive while signing, because it is rather dangerous, but it's not as if one is going to sit there and say (sign) nothing to the other person because there is no music to fill that space. Is this right or wrong? I found it rather debateable myself :D

Christianity and Atheism

Biggest knowledge issue ever - how did the Earth begin? Many will say God, and many will say science and big bang theory (or something along the lines of calculating how our planet came to rest in the perfect spot). I gotta say, it can be a heated discussion :D

Being Personal

Sometimes, the only way to truly get to people is by being personal with them. I understand that there are always people around that don't ever feel comfotable with revealing things about themselves to complete strangers, especially with today's world lacking in the honesty department. However, i have found that by being personal with someone, you have gained an inside. By being personal, you have passion and depth that are always admirable by the crowd because they find they are afraid to be personal because of the consequences.

Small towns are notorious for being personable people; really friendly and outgoing. This is what makes so many people like them. We were talking about this at my cross country meet because we were talking to this lady in the small town we were in, and she was very outgoing and friendly. Though i know that this is a stereotype, and not true for everyone, the vast majority are. Why is personability so likeable?

I wrote a post last friday based on the trouble i was having in my own relationship, and i find it was the most passionate, most heartfelt post i've put out yet.

what causes people to not get personal? I am an extrovert so it's rather hard to see the other side of things (though i have been shy before i'm not a complete extrovert).
What makes people be so outgoing?

Why am i so personal?

Relationships and "Love"

How do you know when someone is "the one"? I fret I will always doubt. When there's a fight, but you somehow make it through, does that not show that you are willing to work through the hardships, making the relationship last longer, and therefore point towards a long lasting relationship? But what about those people that move on after time? They bore of you? Do you not fear this? And after having gone through so many failures before, does this not support that the relationship may end?

But what if you didn't work hard enough to keep it going? What if, had you solved this one fight, you would have found that you would have lived your life in bliss forever, having finally figured out how to handle the differences you do have?

But when do you decide that, finally, this is the last fight you can handle? Yet does this not bring you back to the question in the previous paragraph?

How do you know someone is for real when your perspective is forever slanted towards them because of the fact that you really like them?

And when does "like" turn to "love"? When is it the for-real love and not the high school version of love that is so often betrayed and turned against?

Why is it that some people realize this love in high school, and hold onto it for the next 43 years while some people think they've found this love in college, and divorce in the next 7? Does it also relate to the fact that we have to realize and accept our differences, or is it something completely different?

When you have learned to cope with the differences and compromise, is there a point when you realize that the differences are just too much?

Why do we refuse to move on when we know the relationship is destined to fail? Is that what real love is? That no matter how this person acts, no matter what they say, no matter what, you could still go back and hug them tight, do nothing the entire night and find that you've enjoyed every minute of it despite the fact that you have nothing in common, because all they've ever done is for you. Is this love?

What is love?
And how do we know when it's real?
And how do we know when someone is "the one"?

Perception

Today, after talking to one of the coaches, i realized just how different perception is. Especially within one cultural group. (And football is like a sub-group of a culture hah!) I found that a lot of the stereotypes we have about football players are not actually from the football players themselves (though i suppose can be, always exceptions!) but some of it is from the coaches! I hope you guys all get to read my paper because i feel like it's going to be really long, packed with info and SUPER good! I'm not sure this is a knowledge issue (beginning was tee hee) but i just had to post this :)

Contraversy

If IB wants people to write in any area for their Extended Essay, why did they make Math an area that is practically impossible? This angers me

Football

While observing the football players for my ethnography, it made me wonder how the first stereotype began. The one player i talked to wanted to be a graphic engineer couldn't believer and was currently in IB Math. While I do know the stereotype, and I do kinda believe it, I didn't realize that stereotypes had been amplified to strongly. It is also true that the reason stereotypes appear is because it tends to be the majority, though not the entire group. There are exceptions. And i find i'm actually an extreme extrovert and i can't wait to go back tomorrow.

New TV Show

I am currently watching this show where the human techonology breaks down - no electricity, no cars, etc. And they have to revert back to times when they had to create their own food by growing it, and having animals. It makes me wonder what would happen if we were thrown into that situation - could we survive? Do we know enough? Would government (federal) matter at this point?

whyyyyy

Why do humans feel the need to better themsleves, and make life "easier"? When was it that someone all of a sudden wanted to create technology and make the future have to compete to always better themselves? I understand that for medical purposes its wonderful, but for everything else . . . sometimes our only education is that what we'd learn in song and dance like African song.

Forgetfulness

It's rather a knowledge issue in itself. I had an idea of what to write, but then it just blew through me to the other side of who knows where and here I am left with nothing to write about. Where did my thoughts go? Why do they disappear? Why is it that we forget? I understand that there are certain things we should forget (bad memories I suppose would be nice) but the little things, why so? I've heard that we only really a small fraction of our brain.

I think of the book Unforgettable from the rebel read this year, and I understand it's not always a positive experience to remember everything, but why do we have to forget so much, either?

Emotion

On Monday, during second hour, I had what the nurse classified as an anxiety attack. While its roots may lay in the beginnings of a sickness, I hadn't even had any of the symptoms for it yet. What is the purpose of anxiety? I realize that nervousness is something you get before a test or an important event, embarrassment is what you feel after doing something others consider riduculous (or what you consider others to think is ridiculous), and that fear is what you feel before a snarling dog.

What I don't understand is the anxiety. It had no positive effects. I understand that neither does embarrassment, but it at least is an emotion that makes sense in the way of social life, as well as nervousness. Fear is the fight or flight distress signal, and is rather understandable. Anxiety, on the other hand, simply caused a teary response that had me breathing rather quickly and shivering uncontrollably. Later on, I got the sickness I am now recovering from, but I doubt that is normally the point of anxiety.

It had me thinking that emotion is rather unreliable, especially when the nurse was asking why I was freaking out and I found that I had no answer because Spanish was one of my favorite (and easiest) classes. There was nothing t boe anxious about. I figured to myself it out to happen in History because of the notes that I had not done yet or in TOK because of the four papers we're trying to write. Instead, it happened in the class that was the safe zone of my day, the one with the least amount of stress you could say.

Perhaps this is a more personal matter, but it is an example of the unreliablity of emotion. It's all I've had to think about for the past 3 days.

What do I do wrong?

So while watching this girl walk towards me, I found myself admiring her dress. I have to admit, the brilliance of the blue and white was just, well, beautiful. I opened my mouth and told her that I loved her dress, and all she did was glare at me. Now I wonder if it was just a long shirt because she was wearing jeans underneath, but since it came below her butt, naturally I assumed it was a dress. Perhaps I was mistaken.

Later on in the week, I made conversation with this girl next to me (because I was rather lonely walking by myself) and told her how much I loved her florescent orange soccer ball. She gave me a look. Then, silly me, I continued, and asked her if she used it in games? She nodded and turned away. Somehow, I'm wondering if I'm too forthright or my victims (such a bad connotation, I don't mean it that way) are simply shy.

Does this count as a knowledge issue? I'm still a little vague.