Saturday, June 12, 2010
The reason for starting this blog, or blogging at all. And also an example of.
Starting this blog....Yeah, why? Well, I suppose the main reason is just for fun and kicks. Also, why not just have a place to write down all of your thoughts, memories, etc? I like feedback and comments about random stuff as well. So yeah. I realized the other day that I do my best thinking, or rather that the best of thoughts come to me, when I am mowing my lawn. My lawn takes about three ours to mow on the rider, two hours pushing and about another hour of trimming. So, I have some time. I was thinking the other day that a major key to happiness in my life is "chunking". No, not chunking like breaking something up into chunks, or playing "Minecraft" (although that game, albeit a bit mundane, is quite awesome) and destroying all other peoples blocks by chunking them into little bits. I mean chunking as in splitting things, such as chores, up into sections to complete. I mow in this fashion. Instead of just mowing the whole yard in a single loop over and over again I take the whole and split it down into sections, and with each section being completed I feel a sense of gratification in getting something done. And with each section being completed the sense of accomplishment gets higher until I'm finally done, and then when I'm done I feel happy for getting a goal done, whilst also feeling good consistently throughout the job because of my littler goals being completed. This can also be applied to many other things. Like video games for one. In Modern Warfare you play and level up every now and then. and every level is an accomplishment, and then every couple of levels you get a new gun, perk, etc. making it even more awesome. The game that I feel that has done this to almost the greatest extent is World of Warcraft (later will be referred to as "WoW"), which is probably the reason why its so popular, and so well liked. In WoW you've got so many thing to accomplish that its not that hard to get one done. Like, each two levels you get new spells or upgrades, so thats a small accomplishment, and the level 10 you get talents which have a whole crap ton of accomplishments in talent trees alone, and then level 20 you get a mount which increases movement speed, and the every ten levels you get even more spells than every two levels. And it just goes on and on. And even when you get max level it doesn't stop. So there. Another, yet the greatest example (IMHO) about the happiness of "CHUNKING". and of THAT is the example of my purpose of writting this blogg. Which i probably should've writting in another blog post, but ohwellz!
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