I am an analytical person. Since I was born, everyday I have lived with a sense of wonder. I've questioned reality, questioned being, questioned life, questioned death, questioned mathematics, questioned music, questioned the brain, questioned politics, questioned computers, questioned board-games, questioned laws, questioned rules, questioned people, questioned society, questioned trees, questioned nature, questioned senses, questioned animals, questioned mountains, questioned gravity, questioned galaxies, questioned books, questioned history, questioned technology, questioned meanings. I've questioned it all. Almost every interval of the day I have at least one thought in the back of my brain thinking about something.
When I was younger these thoughts were always kept inside my head. I felt that they were weird. After all hadn't heard my friends question life or death when I was 12. (Or even questioning the universe). It felt like it was me who always had to bring the conversation up to only be shut down quickly as it was not the most rationale thinking. At the time I knew other kids were out there who thought and questioned the world as much as I did but I was never surrounded by them. At least they were hidden from my sight.
I would always ponder in my head. That was my space and I loved it. Even till today thoughts of these and new questions arise at fast intervals whether I invite them or not. I love it and I don't.
Life near the end of high school was quite strange. It felt my head and my mind were going through deep understanding phases and truly processing the world for what it had to offer. From birth-grade 10 the tools I had access to, to answer some of these questioned were constrained to my experiences (which were not vast or in number). When In grade 11 something changed. I was old. I could take in 3rd party information (i.e. my senses, other people talking, school) and make my own concise decision on it. I was TRULY my own person.
Grade 11 was when I felt this shift In my brain (@the_end_of_puberty haha). I would constantly propose and bring up deep conversation material with many of my friends. Thus prompted many late night car talks with my buddies when they were to drop me off at home. I noticed that many of them were actually like me, they had their own thoughts about many of the deep questions I proposed to them.
While It was nice to see that others thought like me, it was incredibly apparent that I had a much deeper methodical thought to many of them problems. It was like all my answers were/are backed up by some intrinsic philosophy. In other words I was a born thinker.
I love challenging people around me to think deep. I remember this one experience I had was truly magical. In grade 12 my friend Greg (changed his name) had dropped me off one day at home and for some reason he came in to visit for a little bit more. Well, we talked much more than just a little bit. More like 3 hours straight, till 2am, casually right next to my front door. I made him get lost in the realm of the question why. That night we talked about everything, space, universe, hadrons, leptons, dark matter, gravity, string theory, life. Say anything and we probably had it covered in that conversation.
The most wonderful thing to come from that talk with my friend Greg was the sense of wonder in his eyes. Greg is a smart guy and I absolutely know he's asked the question why before, but I don't know if he's ever asked it multiple times in rapid succession. Doing so gets you to the much deeper stuff, like what the universe is actually composed of. That taste of deep wonder that Greg got that night truly set me on a little high. [I am not such an outcast of a person. I am only a person who asks why many many more times than people.]
After many more encounters like these it was apparent that I loved challenging my friends to think about deep topics that required the use of abstract parts of your brain. The lesson I hoped they could learn from these talks were to ask why more often. Stop living in such wonder of a world, challenge this wonder, ask your self, have thoughts in your own brain, ask why.
[As a thinker, I literally just thought right now as I am typing this that if people were to ask why one step further the world we currently live in would be much different. Don't get me wrong, the technological advancements, research scientists are doing, everything. It is all is so astounding and impressive. But think for yourself right now...why would asking why change the world we live in for the better? I think you could come to your own conclusion with that one :).]
People should try to live in a more "why" state of mind. Everything should be at least questioned to some extent. For instance (super random example but role with me), throughout my life it was always told that it's rude or it was awkward to ask for someones name twice after just meeting them. For me I ask why?! To clarify your possible question if you forgot your first dates name of course that not good but I just don't understand the justification when it comes to the general public's names. So I ask why?
[First of all, I bet you the person you just met also forgot your name. Secondly, why does it have to be awkward just say "hey I forgot your name, my apologies." Thirdly, why does it matter? It doesn't. We are all human with many things on our mind]
I don't particularly know why I posed that example to you, I figure it's something that I am underlying passionate about and has been particularly bugging me about the world. But just ask why? Please, try to question society standards.
Literally in history class I learned about the best thing the other day. In the 1700s (ish), the enlightenment era of philosophy took place. This is where philosophy took a turn to become more analytical and about thinking for yourself. It was thought that people were basing to much of their life on superstition, religion and black magic. (I do not have anything wrong with religion, in fact I think religion is a blessing to the human race, but that's another topic of discussion) Twas out of this era that spawned the type of science we know today. This was because the most important thing that humans took from it was that we started to more-or-less think for ourselves.
I am personally blessed to be surrounded by like minded individuals in engineering as the ideas can rattle endlessly off each others brain. YES! That's what I was going to say way up there in this blog. Comparing to my little kid brain in high school to now it is apparent that being enrolled in engineering at university has truly advanced my thinking. Since first year of uni I am on an entirely different level because it is here now that my ideas and concepts can be critiqued by my peers who have also thought the same, but from their own unique perspective.
This is why I am inclined to believe that if we all asked a simple why more often - if humans were to question things a tiny bit more - more answers to life altering problems would be found. Challenging ideas and concepts are the beauty about asking the question why. Why is where real conversation takes place. It's the fundamental back bone to all science and every mathematical paper. (Because in a mathematical paper you are literally explaining WHY to the answer you have).
Why can be used in every sense of the world. Why climate change, why don't all humans get along, why is there war, why do people bully, why are people mean, why are people angry, why can't we all just be, why is there depression, why is there anxiety, why do we cry, why do we laugh, why do we sleep. Why. Just why. Why is something that the world needs more of.
But why?
That's for you to answer.
This blog post was created because today was a particularly cool day. I shared with my friend a theory that I started forming from grade 11 and he thought it was pretty cool haha.
Cheers.
When I was younger these thoughts were always kept inside my head. I felt that they were weird. After all hadn't heard my friends question life or death when I was 12. (Or even questioning the universe). It felt like it was me who always had to bring the conversation up to only be shut down quickly as it was not the most rationale thinking. At the time I knew other kids were out there who thought and questioned the world as much as I did but I was never surrounded by them. At least they were hidden from my sight.
I would always ponder in my head. That was my space and I loved it. Even till today thoughts of these and new questions arise at fast intervals whether I invite them or not. I love it and I don't.
Life near the end of high school was quite strange. It felt my head and my mind were going through deep understanding phases and truly processing the world for what it had to offer. From birth-grade 10 the tools I had access to, to answer some of these questioned were constrained to my experiences (which were not vast or in number). When In grade 11 something changed. I was old. I could take in 3rd party information (i.e. my senses, other people talking, school) and make my own concise decision on it. I was TRULY my own person.
Grade 11 was when I felt this shift In my brain (@the_end_of_puberty haha). I would constantly propose and bring up deep conversation material with many of my friends. Thus prompted many late night car talks with my buddies when they were to drop me off at home. I noticed that many of them were actually like me, they had their own thoughts about many of the deep questions I proposed to them.
While It was nice to see that others thought like me, it was incredibly apparent that I had a much deeper methodical thought to many of them problems. It was like all my answers were/are backed up by some intrinsic philosophy. In other words I was a born thinker.
I love challenging people around me to think deep. I remember this one experience I had was truly magical. In grade 12 my friend Greg (changed his name) had dropped me off one day at home and for some reason he came in to visit for a little bit more. Well, we talked much more than just a little bit. More like 3 hours straight, till 2am, casually right next to my front door. I made him get lost in the realm of the question why. That night we talked about everything, space, universe, hadrons, leptons, dark matter, gravity, string theory, life. Say anything and we probably had it covered in that conversation.
The most wonderful thing to come from that talk with my friend Greg was the sense of wonder in his eyes. Greg is a smart guy and I absolutely know he's asked the question why before, but I don't know if he's ever asked it multiple times in rapid succession. Doing so gets you to the much deeper stuff, like what the universe is actually composed of. That taste of deep wonder that Greg got that night truly set me on a little high. [I am not such an outcast of a person. I am only a person who asks why many many more times than people.]
After many more encounters like these it was apparent that I loved challenging my friends to think about deep topics that required the use of abstract parts of your brain. The lesson I hoped they could learn from these talks were to ask why more often. Stop living in such wonder of a world, challenge this wonder, ask your self, have thoughts in your own brain, ask why.
[As a thinker, I literally just thought right now as I am typing this that if people were to ask why one step further the world we currently live in would be much different. Don't get me wrong, the technological advancements, research scientists are doing, everything. It is all is so astounding and impressive. But think for yourself right now...why would asking why change the world we live in for the better? I think you could come to your own conclusion with that one :).]
People should try to live in a more "why" state of mind. Everything should be at least questioned to some extent. For instance (super random example but role with me), throughout my life it was always told that it's rude or it was awkward to ask for someones name twice after just meeting them. For me I ask why?! To clarify your possible question if you forgot your first dates name of course that not good but I just don't understand the justification when it comes to the general public's names. So I ask why?
[First of all, I bet you the person you just met also forgot your name. Secondly, why does it have to be awkward just say "hey I forgot your name, my apologies." Thirdly, why does it matter? It doesn't. We are all human with many things on our mind]
I don't particularly know why I posed that example to you, I figure it's something that I am underlying passionate about and has been particularly bugging me about the world. But just ask why? Please, try to question society standards.
Literally in history class I learned about the best thing the other day. In the 1700s (ish), the enlightenment era of philosophy took place. This is where philosophy took a turn to become more analytical and about thinking for yourself. It was thought that people were basing to much of their life on superstition, religion and black magic. (I do not have anything wrong with religion, in fact I think religion is a blessing to the human race, but that's another topic of discussion) Twas out of this era that spawned the type of science we know today. This was because the most important thing that humans took from it was that we started to more-or-less think for ourselves.
I am personally blessed to be surrounded by like minded individuals in engineering as the ideas can rattle endlessly off each others brain. YES! That's what I was going to say way up there in this blog. Comparing to my little kid brain in high school to now it is apparent that being enrolled in engineering at university has truly advanced my thinking. Since first year of uni I am on an entirely different level because it is here now that my ideas and concepts can be critiqued by my peers who have also thought the same, but from their own unique perspective.
This is why I am inclined to believe that if we all asked a simple why more often - if humans were to question things a tiny bit more - more answers to life altering problems would be found. Challenging ideas and concepts are the beauty about asking the question why. Why is where real conversation takes place. It's the fundamental back bone to all science and every mathematical paper. (Because in a mathematical paper you are literally explaining WHY to the answer you have).
Why can be used in every sense of the world. Why climate change, why don't all humans get along, why is there war, why do people bully, why are people mean, why are people angry, why can't we all just be, why is there depression, why is there anxiety, why do we cry, why do we laugh, why do we sleep. Why. Just why. Why is something that the world needs more of.
But why?
That's for you to answer.
This blog post was created because today was a particularly cool day. I shared with my friend a theory that I started forming from grade 11 and he thought it was pretty cool haha.
Cheers.