What do you create?
Not too long ago when I was talking about creating, I mentioned that I was on the verge of beginning to draw. I failed to mention, however, that I have been experimenting a lot with digital graphic work. I assure you that it's nothing exceptionally impressive, but it has been enjoyable and sometimes even helpful.
For example, instead of printing a document, completing it, scanning it, and then e-mailing it, I've been copying and pasting text or whatever other images I need onto various documents. I even forgot to mention that I made the save-the-dates for my wedding! With the skillful use of copy-and-paste, they turned out very nicely.
I've also been revisiting TI-83 programming lately. I made a program that tells you what grade an assignment is, a program that factors numbers, and I'm working on a program that randomizes "beggar cards" for Sternenfahrer - and that's not even all of them.
We're about to move. At least for right now, I don't really have any thoughts or feelings. I'd like to get a job some day, but I don't want to be stuck in the lifelessness that seems to be every man's destiny. I guess I'm already stuck in my own sort of lifelessness anyway: I fear. Why else would I hide in video-games?
What have you created recently? People always ask, "Where are you from?" I think that's a useless question. I'd like to meet people by asking, "What do you create?" I don't care whence you come since, in most cases, it really, truly won't tell me much about you. I want to know what you create; I want to know what you choose to bring into existence. That would tell me about you.
Please stop asking me in what town I live. If you really want to know me, that question won't help you. If you don't really want to know me, stop pretending, and stop wasting my time.
I hate all the stupid, empty, useless questions. I hate when people don't put their hearts into questions. They don't think about why they're asking a question. "How are you?" is the epitome of empty questions. When a person asks "How are you?", almost invariably, he or she does not care about you at all. The first individual does not want anything besides someone else who also pretends that everything is fine and dandy. The second individual, sadly, has been trained not to care about himself or his interlocutor. Thus, the second will respond with the tried and trite "Goodhowareyou?" - no pause, no thought, and no sincerity.
"Where do you come from?" is just as useless but much more sneaky. People will usually respond with empty lies to the question "How are you?" "Where do you come from?", however, is unavoidably answered honestly. Nevertheless, neither participant invests his or her heart in this question. The supposition for both of these questions is that the first individual cares about the second, that the first wishes to know about the second. In reality, though, the first and second have both been trained not to care, so they play a endless game of blank questions and responses.
I cherish the question "How are you?" That's why I try neither to ask it nor respond to it. I don't want to be frivolous. I don't want merely to pretend that I care. I want to care truly and with a full heart.
If you ever ask me "How are you?" and I simply say "Good how are you?", please feel insulted and reprimand me: I did not listen to you, and I was not caring about you.
For example, instead of printing a document, completing it, scanning it, and then e-mailing it, I've been copying and pasting text or whatever other images I need onto various documents. I even forgot to mention that I made the save-the-dates for my wedding! With the skillful use of copy-and-paste, they turned out very nicely.
I've also been revisiting TI-83 programming lately. I made a program that tells you what grade an assignment is, a program that factors numbers, and I'm working on a program that randomizes "beggar cards" for Sternenfahrer - and that's not even all of them.
We're about to move. At least for right now, I don't really have any thoughts or feelings. I'd like to get a job some day, but I don't want to be stuck in the lifelessness that seems to be every man's destiny. I guess I'm already stuck in my own sort of lifelessness anyway: I fear. Why else would I hide in video-games?
What have you created recently? People always ask, "Where are you from?" I think that's a useless question. I'd like to meet people by asking, "What do you create?" I don't care whence you come since, in most cases, it really, truly won't tell me much about you. I want to know what you create; I want to know what you choose to bring into existence. That would tell me about you.
Please stop asking me in what town I live. If you really want to know me, that question won't help you. If you don't really want to know me, stop pretending, and stop wasting my time.
I hate all the stupid, empty, useless questions. I hate when people don't put their hearts into questions. They don't think about why they're asking a question. "How are you?" is the epitome of empty questions. When a person asks "How are you?", almost invariably, he or she does not care about you at all. The first individual does not want anything besides someone else who also pretends that everything is fine and dandy. The second individual, sadly, has been trained not to care about himself or his interlocutor. Thus, the second will respond with the tried and trite "Goodhowareyou?" - no pause, no thought, and no sincerity.
"Where do you come from?" is just as useless but much more sneaky. People will usually respond with empty lies to the question "How are you?" "Where do you come from?", however, is unavoidably answered honestly. Nevertheless, neither participant invests his or her heart in this question. The supposition for both of these questions is that the first individual cares about the second, that the first wishes to know about the second. In reality, though, the first and second have both been trained not to care, so they play a endless game of blank questions and responses.
I cherish the question "How are you?" That's why I try neither to ask it nor respond to it. I don't want to be frivolous. I don't want merely to pretend that I care. I want to care truly and with a full heart.
If you ever ask me "How are you?" and I simply say "Good how are you?", please feel insulted and reprimand me: I did not listen to you, and I was not caring about you.
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