Learning

     I enjoy watching, and even listening to various forms of medium but I think I am really starting to enjoy reading. For the longest time I consumed 80% of the things I learned through videos. YouTube was my main source for everything but as time went on the allure of a YouTube personality faded and I rarely watch a YouTube video unless it has a unique topic or video featuring a personality I still enjoy. There is something simple to reading that allows for so much more compared to a podcast or a YouTube video that I didn't realize before because of my own laziness. Now don't get me wrong I read some of the books required in school, and everyone essentially reads all day now. Texting, social media feeds, news headlines popping up throughout them it's hard not to read something throughout the day! But what I mean when I say I'm starting to really enjoy reading are the long form articles on topics. I'm no longer just skimming through headlines and scrolling through my Twitter feed but I'm actually sitting down and reading the news. Whether it has to do politics, entertainment, or even a personal narrative of a story that has a on going life theme I'm starting to actually enjoy reading it. Now let's not think I'm a fucking genius over here I'm still too lazy to crack open a book and read that but I think I'm taking baby steps towards it.

      I like to live by the life philosophy of always learning, I know absolutely nothing and it's worth a shot letting the other person share because there's always a possibility I might take away something from them that I couldn't get anywhere else. And I'd be lying if I didn't feel giddy when I finish reading something because I feel like I just learned something new and cool. Will it help in a long term practical lifestyle? Probably not. But it makes me happy and I enjoy it.

     I guess the take away from today is there's a lot of fucking shit in the world and regardless of how it's learned, I'm still learning! Throughout this dumb journey of a blug a small metaphor for going on through my daily life the question of what makes me happy is always a difficult one. But hey! I think I found a small simple answer, I like to learn a lot about everything. JACK OF ALL TRADES MASTER OF NONE. HELLO. Tonight I learned on why Fantastic Four was an awful movie, why No Child Left Behind failed really badly, and how a lot of people are so afraid of dying they spend their ending years "alive" prevents them from having a peaceful death. Now isn't that fucking awesome?