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Addiction: how is it beaten and what comes after?

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Addiction. It's a simple word that brings to it thoughts of junkies and addicts wasting their lives away hooked on a substance. It's a harsh, sad way to live, and yet we all know someone who's addicted to something in their lives. I'm not just talking about drugs or substances, but a much broader sense where one get's hooked on something in their environment. Nowadays, addiction has shifted from drugs to more commonly seen substances, such as the internet and social media. And thought now it's more something known about, this form of addiction is still on the rise. To understand an addiction, we firstly need to understand the relationships between the individuals and the substance. What are the rewards? What reciprocal value does the individual gain from this behavior? By understanding this behavior, we get a further understanding of both the individual and the substance's behavior towards it. At times, this could be all that's needed; a simple ...

Anime: a brief history from the part, 2000's till today.

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Anime refers to anything drawn up in a story, with detailed characters and at times complex plots and is an anime typical in  Japan. The style has evolved greatly form it's early ages of fairy tale stores, robots and overpower superheroes to more complex, action packed and deeper characters whilst also evolving it's unique aesthetic style that anime is known for. From old school to new school, anime is constantly evolving and taking now apporaches and new angles on how and what stores they tell us, ranging from horror to fantasy, drama to action in over seven  generas. I'm by far no anime buff. I only started watching anime when I was some 22 and the first anime I watched was 'Attack on Titan' (note: it's not a wise idea to watch it while eating a pizza....and we're still waiting for season 2!). My interpretation of anime is this: it's a set of cartoons drawn in a particular iconic style that encompass more mature, open-minded ap...

I'm back....

I have been though my own fair share of bullshit in the last few years since I've last been on here. a lot has changed, way too much has happened and I'm at that point where I'm looking at old photos of me and thinking 'damn, was i really that much of a loser?' Though out my years away, I've accumulated knowledge and new skills. Needless to say that this new gift of mine is bound to come in handy, i just need to work it out as much as I can in all venues of my life. Hence, vuala, my first piece in what hopes to be something fresh and new: Depression. It is but a single word that in our modern times, strikes fear into many. An invisible black sludge that engulfs you, suffocating you under it's weight until it's immobilize everything it touches. Quite a scary way to describe one of the most kept quite pandemics in the world. People don't really seam to care much about it and just breeze past. But those who get it, those who get touched, know it...

Rewinding and re-defining

I am amazed by how hard these last few days have been…the sheer impossibility of what can be done and what I’m expected to do, but there is such a great lack of asking what I want to do. I didn’t want things to go down this life, none at all. I always had the hope that this would work out, that something somewhere would just…fit in and make sense. But it doesn’t. It never was that simple to begin with and I doubt it ever will be regardless. I am a lot to take in, a lot to control and need a lot of care and love…commodities which aren’t so common these days as one might expect. They are externally hard resources to find, as no one really cares unless they can gain something themselves from it. The sadness of it all is that so many of us follow that thinking that we lose out on all other possibilities, limiting ourselves. I amid to experience it all, every nock and cranny, of life. But this, this thing, this sticky substance, it slows me down and hinders me. It’s unsenceisising.  Y...

A flawed system

So......for us students, summer has finally arrived. Enough books, waking up early (except fro some of us who work during the summer) and stuck all day inside learning shit we might never use in our lives. It's something everyone looks forward to: the sun, the sea, the night life. In other words, the whole lot, which is why most of us find ourselves during the summer. As most of us had to experience before, we had examinations. Confined to a room within which we had to pour out information from our minds that most of us had ether been memorising weeks or the night before. For those who had been studying for weeks, sacrifices had to be made. You know what I mean. Going to bed early, missing a few activities, holding a bit back from things that make you happy, skipping naps, not reading books or drawing, in other words, the little things. All this just to attain some sort of recognition of what your capable of by the educational system. Education has always aimed to improve it...

What if?

So the other day while I was working i got this really strange thought, especially now that I'm in a moment in my life were decisions are now mine and mine alone. As well as I recall whilst during my studies I overheard someone saying something about change, or time to change which made me think: what if? It's not the wording itself that got to me, but the concept of it which I find intriguing. Your actions now, here at this moment, dictate your future. You have a choice as to whether you do this or that, but the result from the 2 is completely different and has a totally different impact on what happens with you in your life. That's quite simple and straight forward. Now, let's expand it. Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light-bulb. He had to make countless choices and estimations to create a light-bulb, something which we take for granted in our modern lives. But his choices, his destination have change the world and is now quite an irreversible way. Karl Marx...

Educational Pressure

Hazzar!!! At last I finally managed to find some free time to write something down. Did ya miss me? :P It has been too long since I last wrote something down, mainly cause I've been really backed up cause of school, which has brought me to an interesting thought. School. The mystical place were as kids we are told to go to if we want to have a good future; which considering, isn't so far from the truth. The same goes if you don't get any education at all, you cannot progress forward or be a functional member within society ( here, referring to the simplest and most basic forms of education). However, the further up the ladder you climb, the more complex the work load gets and that is something that should expected. But still, where do you draw the line between work and freedom, simplicity and complication? By law, at least in my country, you are to go to school till the age of 16, which sounds fair. Then you are ether expected to work or further progress in your studie...