Dominating Materials

      Thoreau believed that in order to live well, we must reduce the number of material goods we have. Otherwise things begin to dominate us. In my eyes, this is very true. Nowadays, many material thing (IPod's, XBox's, etc.) aren't things that we necessarily need but want. Many kids often spend hours in front of the television with a controller in their hand, rather than going outside to play. Then when the turn eighteen, they are very lazy and have no ambition to go make something of their lives. This would be okay if on a job application, they asked how many hours you play video games a week.

        To add on to dominating material items, IPods. Each and every morning I listen to my IPod because it bloks out excess noise. But the mornings that I do not have my IPod, it feels like I'm sleeping in the Artic without anything to keep me warm. Painful. I feel as if there is a missing piece to me.IPod's are very useful and fun to have, but happens when you don't have it? Thoreau was right, we need to reduce the number of material items. They're starting to dominate our lives.

Prime Numbers

" Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all of the patterens away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them." - Mark Haddon

  I believe that the qutoe by Haddon is very accurate. Prime numbers are a lot like life itself, specifically the formation of life. For example, Darwin's theory of evolution vs. the religious point of view on how humans were created. Both arugments are very logical, but either way you look at it finding out how humans were created is nearly impossible.

   There is many patterns to life: aging, education, having children, and even falling in love. These patterns are unpredictable, there isn't a specific way to work out life problems. No two people age alike, when age is measured in maturity. No one has experience or opinion on their education. Everyone has children at different ages ( both the parents and the kids). Some people fall in love young, while others may fall in love when they feel older and more mature. We appoint life to patterns, but in reality there are no patterns.