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Today's Question:
Describe to your world(s) to us.
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Today's Question:
Describe to your world(s) to us.
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Question of the Day, 4/09/10 - Your World
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I don't even know where to begin.
My world is primarily one of sensation. It is probably my biggest focus no matter where I am, what I am doing. There is always something I notice, and sometimes I will get lost in it despite my surroundings and the people I am with. I like pretending that I do literally have my own little bubble, and sometimes I just do what I want when I want to in public, and don't care who sees me or what they think. If I'm bored and out somewhere with people, sometimes I just sit down and play with my fingers, secretly, eyeing everyone around me and studying them, watching their twitches, hearing the noises they make, seeing how they react if I catch my eye. I like to think that every person has a story, which they obviously do, and sometimes I just stare at people, trying to concoct their story in my head. It's quite entertaining.
I'd say also that in terms of stimuli, my world is one that must always have sound. I think this is why I tend to talk to myself a lot, no matter where I am. (recently I was doing it and someone kept asking if I was high, and it was really annoying) Utter silence really bugs me, and I think it may be why I unconsciously start talking to myself whenever I'm alone, just to break the silence. Especially if there are mirrors around, I feel compelled to literally talk to MYSELF. I mean, it's rude when there are two people around and no conversation! My world is about appreciating colors and shapes, sometimes just continually tracing a balloon's curves and imagining all the atoms of nitrogen and oxygen bouncing around beneath its surface. I'm a very slow eater (most of the time) because I love the taste of food, I love noticing where the flavor is most poignant on my tongue because of the appropriate taste buds, and I loooove that feeling of not having drunk something in a while and when you do again you can feel it traveling down your esophagus and to your core. It tickles me.
My world is quite literally all in my head, and only does it sometimes leak out when I am talking to myself or with someone, and I feel comfortable enough to share it with them. My world is basically one where I would love to just exist and feel what I want to feel, not worried about what other people may think or react, and to just relate to more people more casually without them being like "Uh, what the hell are you doing? Weirdo." I think that people are too uptight just because they're expected to be, like they have to initially react upset or whatever to things that aren't normal and are possibly outlandish. I wish that people would just do more of the things that make them feel good, and take pleasure in the little things! Like just taking the time to lay out on the lawn and feel the sun heat your face, staring at the bright big blue sky, or laying on a beach at night and feeling the cool sand sprinkle on and off your skin from my your own doing, the water's breeze washing over you with the slightest hint of a spray. Sometimes I wish I were an animal so I could only worry about myself, and just run through the world as I pleased, experiencing what I wanted, being dirty when I wanted to be, clean otherwise, and just feeling everything around me all at once without another care in the world.
My world is primarily one of sensation. It is probably my biggest focus no matter where I am, what I am doing. There is always something I notice, and sometimes I will get lost in it despite my surroundings and the people I am with. I like pretending that I do literally have my own little bubble, and sometimes I just do what I want when I want to in public, and don't care who sees me or what they think. If I'm bored and out somewhere with people, sometimes I just sit down and play with my fingers, secretly, eyeing everyone around me and studying them, watching their twitches, hearing the noises they make, seeing how they react if I catch my eye. I like to think that every person has a story, which they obviously do, and sometimes I just stare at people, trying to concoct their story in my head. It's quite entertaining.
I'd say also that in terms of stimuli, my world is one that must always have sound. I think this is why I tend to talk to myself a lot, no matter where I am. (recently I was doing it and someone kept asking if I was high, and it was really annoying) Utter silence really bugs me, and I think it may be why I unconsciously start talking to myself whenever I'm alone, just to break the silence. Especially if there are mirrors around, I feel compelled to literally talk to MYSELF. I mean, it's rude when there are two people around and no conversation! My world is about appreciating colors and shapes, sometimes just continually tracing a balloon's curves and imagining all the atoms of nitrogen and oxygen bouncing around beneath its surface. I'm a very slow eater (most of the time) because I love the taste of food, I love noticing where the flavor is most poignant on my tongue because of the appropriate taste buds, and I loooove that feeling of not having drunk something in a while and when you do again you can feel it traveling down your esophagus and to your core. It tickles me.
My world is quite literally all in my head, and only does it sometimes leak out when I am talking to myself or with someone, and I feel comfortable enough to share it with them. My world is basically one where I would love to just exist and feel what I want to feel, not worried about what other people may think or react, and to just relate to more people more casually without them being like "Uh, what the hell are you doing? Weirdo." I think that people are too uptight just because they're expected to be, like they have to initially react upset or whatever to things that aren't normal and are possibly outlandish. I wish that people would just do more of the things that make them feel good, and take pleasure in the little things! Like just taking the time to lay out on the lawn and feel the sun heat your face, staring at the bright big blue sky, or laying on a beach at night and feeling the cool sand sprinkle on and off your skin from my your own doing, the water's breeze washing over you with the slightest hint of a spray. Sometimes I wish I were an animal so I could only worry about myself, and just run through the world as I pleased, experiencing what I wanted, being dirty when I wanted to be, clean otherwise, and just feeling everything around me all at once without another care in the world.
Hmmm...this is a pretty deep question. Well I guess I can start off and just describe me. Well I would be going to college now (like a full 4 classes a semester type gig) but I was at college (UCF, I know it sucks, don't remind me) then I got really sick with Meningitis and Lemmiere's Syndrome so I was hospitalized for 7 weeks. I had to go through intense rehab and shit to learn how to walk and speak again. I can walk but I still have some slight speech problems but it just sounds like a natural lisp so it doesn't bother me. I live at home with my family right now since the timing was awful and I couldn't go back to college in the spring.
I have to like re-integrate myself into society because I was cut-off from it for so long, between the hospital stay and recovery. My parents figured the best way to do that was to look for a job, so I'm currently looking for a job, against my desire to do so. [/sobstory]
Before that I was just your normal average closet pokemon player, actually before that I didn't even play pokemon, because I was busy with school and such. I picked it up maybe once on the weekend. I watched football, baseball, hung out with my friends, worked out, just normal dude stuff. I hail from a military family, so they are like super strict and super conservative about social issues which drives me crazy since I'm "as long as it doesn't hurt me" kinda guy, we butt heads rather often, but I suppose if you aren't arguing with your parents its not a normal relationship is it? So I guess aside from the recent, I lived in a normal world. I pretty much just try to assimilate to what everyone around me does, I think that might some subconcious Fruedian shit, because I was teased alot when I was young because of my last name (Nardo, nice troll God).
Thats me.
P.S. Tangerine, thats a cool picture in your sig.
If you're talking about my world as the world that goes on inside my head then
I'm sure you know about how sometimes you have a song stuck in your head. I always have a song stuck in my head. The only time that I don't is when I am actually listening to music. I've gotten used to this and I really love it; the only possible problem is that I start jamming or dancing or something to music that only I can hear. Sometimes I don't even have a song in my head, a melody just comes to me and I piece together a song in my head. I guess I have the music in my soul.
I'm sure you know about how sometimes you have a song stuck in your head. I always have a song stuck in my head. The only time that I don't is when I am actually listening to music. I've gotten used to this and I really love it; the only possible problem is that I start jamming or dancing or something to music that only I can hear. Sometimes I don't even have a song in my head, a melody just comes to me and I piece together a song in my head. I guess I have the music in my soul.
My world is a world of theories. It is constantly reconstructed from anything new I learn.
Everything I have learned forms a piece of my world, and these pieces of information interact through the many different theories I have learned thus far. Hence, I try to apply theory to everything I do -- not just on videogames but on anything you could ever imagine. I try my best to be aware of all the theories that make everything tick, and I'm amused by them, and try and see what are the implications thus for of it.
I tend to get frustrated often, of course, since I tend to think of people a lot more ideally than I probably should, which is why I hold such high standards to many things -- I expect people should be able to do them. I expect people to work in a certain way to make my "ideal theory" hold, although so far, in every case, people (including me) have fallen short. In a world of theories and idealism, theories about practicality are lacking, so I'm working on that.
Every theory I learn about brings forth new parts to the world I see. This is why I enjoy learning.
Everything I have learned forms a piece of my world, and these pieces of information interact through the many different theories I have learned thus far. Hence, I try to apply theory to everything I do -- not just on videogames but on anything you could ever imagine. I try my best to be aware of all the theories that make everything tick, and I'm amused by them, and try and see what are the implications thus for of it.
I tend to get frustrated often, of course, since I tend to think of people a lot more ideally than I probably should, which is why I hold such high standards to many things -- I expect people should be able to do them. I expect people to work in a certain way to make my "ideal theory" hold, although so far, in every case, people (including me) have fallen short. In a world of theories and idealism, theories about practicality are lacking, so I'm working on that.
Every theory I learn about brings forth new parts to the world I see. This is why I enjoy learning.
My world is barren.
Even when I was extremely young, I struggled a lot with existence and a meaning to life, something that moved me to read a lot and pushed me towards an education in the liberal arts. However, I eventually reached a conclusion on life's meaning, and thus my entire life has been a push towards an ideal, a final dream or goal that I believe can validate my life.
The ideal is frankly at times the only thing that keeps me moving forward, and it frankly is an obsession. I've already sacrificed a lot for it, but I don't really have any regrets in doing so for the ideal.
What is the ideal? I'll freely admit that talking about what it is to anyone pretty much destroys any chance of it getting accomplished in the way I want. This doesn't mean it's a good ideal or bad ideal - it's just a wish. And I can accomplish that wish doing either good or evil.
I do at times stray from the path, and I make mistakes and have memories and have experiences which have nothing to do with the goal, if not outright contradict it. But those don't matter. Everything is irrelevant in front of my ideal, my dream, my world.
Even when I was extremely young, I struggled a lot with existence and a meaning to life, something that moved me to read a lot and pushed me towards an education in the liberal arts. However, I eventually reached a conclusion on life's meaning, and thus my entire life has been a push towards an ideal, a final dream or goal that I believe can validate my life.
The ideal is frankly at times the only thing that keeps me moving forward, and it frankly is an obsession. I've already sacrificed a lot for it, but I don't really have any regrets in doing so for the ideal.
What is the ideal? I'll freely admit that talking about what it is to anyone pretty much destroys any chance of it getting accomplished in the way I want. This doesn't mean it's a good ideal or bad ideal - it's just a wish. And I can accomplish that wish doing either good or evil.
I do at times stray from the path, and I make mistakes and have memories and have experiences which have nothing to do with the goal, if not outright contradict it. But those don't matter. Everything is irrelevant in front of my ideal, my dream, my world.
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