1) The Internet. Hell, you're wasting time right now reading this stuff. True, if you're family, you're reading it to see what's up, how I'm doing, and whether or not I've gone insane. If you are not family or friends, you are wasting time. Flash films, trailer sites, online gaming...heck, porn...all these things just waste time. True, a lot of them can fill us with valuable information, but what is valuable? Knowing when the next Harry Potter book's coming out, that's what!
2) Video-games. This one can be tough sometimes. Mainly because I love We Love Katamari. And I am not denouncing video games. Heck, for a long time, I wanted to make them...I kinda' still do. However, video-games are definitely, or at least can be, one of the most anti-social forms of time-wasting (at least the internet has AIM). What am I saying? Hello! MMORPGs have made the internet and video-games unusually eutectic with each other (Battle Net was first, mind you, but...). Any online gaming makes us feel that much more connected with the rest of the world. I mean, who doesn't love punching the lights out of giant magma monsters with dudes and dudettes from Australia and Japan. Now that's fun. That is, until you realize that it's 4 in the morning. Hmm, sleep much?
3) Television. Hmm. Where to begin? The evolution of television has been a double-edged sword. In many ways, I am thankful that I do not have a TV in my room. It allows me to devote my full attention to my studies or my friends. However, at the same time, I am nearly oblivious to the happenings around me. I don't know when movies come out, I never know what's going on on Lost, and I miss out on just about every season of the Amazing Race. BUT I must say, I don't miss sitcoms. Why? Because sitcoms today suck. I mean that. They are the biggest waste of time in the television industry because no one can write a script anymore.
But television has been the nation's biggest time waster since its inception. We, as a people, love to watch events. The tube can also be a great way to share history, though, and I commend its usefulness, and it's possible to find a happy medium in your viewing pleasure. It ties our culture together. I just dislike couch couscouses.
There aren't any hunter-gatherers left. No wandering samurai. No more need for young warriors with expressionless faces who speak with their noble actions and little spoken word. Maybe that's why they're so popular in fiction... I just can't shake the feeling that there is so much more I could be doing with my time.
Thus I return to one of my points from the beginning: there is something else. When you strip away all the shadows of success, and what it means to really live; when you think about human experience, learning from your mistakes, and picking yourself up when you fall. "It" is there. There is something else we, I should with my life. Something simpler. Life's too short to beat around it. You want something, work for it, work until you bleed battery acid, then work some more. Never take no for an answer. Don't forget your dreams, and always dream too high for reality.
There will always be a time to waste, but I won't waste my life. Not anymore. I have it in me to be something wonderful. So, "Be that man, (insert hot name here), be that man." And not until you finish your work, should you play.
I've had a tough semester, but I'm far from done. So here I go, dukes up, heart on fire, mind on ice. I'm off to study, thanks for reading my rant.
Over and Out,
Adam
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