What grades determine:

butitmight:

• Your ability to memorize mostly useless things
• Your ability to regurgitate information in the way others want you to
• Your ability to understand what adults want from you and give it to them
• Your tolerance for working on tasks you don’t find useful because others want you to do them or believe them to be helpful/socially acceptable

What grades do NOT determine:

• Your intelligence
• Your creativity
• Your emotional capabilities
• Your likeliness to succeed
• Whether you’re a good person

(Source: greaterandmoreterrible, via theunaware)

Day 31 - Emotions.

I want to know how some people think. I want to break them open and figure them out. 

I had a dream last night that Francesca was crying and I didn’t know why. Then I just started cutting myself in front of her to see how she’d react. She got angry and started punching me. I started crying. She started crying. These emotions were so random. That dream was, to say the least, random. I want to know why people cry and for what reason do they have to cry. If something impedes their biological standpoint then yes, they should feel some sort of emotion, but not cry. They should feel anger and they should get rid of that obstacle.

What exactly is an emotion? An expression of oneself when one is not in equilibrium, I suppose. However, even in equilibrium, “content” is a valid emotion. It’s not a justified one, but it is valid. Most emotions aren’t justified, either. Anger isn’t justified.  Happiness isn’t justified. What exactly makes someone “feel” ?

God I hate these philosophical questions I muster up late at night. They probably don’t make any sense. To me  they do, though. To simplify, I want to, physically and metaphorically, rip someone open and examine them. I want to see their emotions. I don’t exactly know how I’ll go fourth in doing so, but it’s worth a try.

Anyone want to be my puppet so I can rip them open?