Can we cross the same river twice?

1.TWITTER is really popular in these couple weeks. Right after we received this strange assignment, I found that there are so many people, who from various industries, pay attention to this simple designed website. The famous surgeon uses it deliver instant messages to his peers and fellows, to demonstrate how an operation was done. An U.S college student use TWITTER to sent message to let his professor know that he was arrested in Europe because he attended a political protest. It is a window for people to illustrate the detail of their lives, and their thoughts. As one of its participators, I realized that we could hardly live alone without the impact from the others. Our peers’ joy, sadness, or frustration would often remind us something else in daily lives. For instance: the other day I was totally loosed by “post mid-term syndrome” and felt like not doing anything, even I still had tons of homework and projects unfinished. I browsed the TWITTER posts, sudden I found there was someone who just lost his beloved grandma. While I felt his pain, his post also reminded me my grandparents, and how much that I should appreciated that both of them still be around us. I called my grandparents immediately, also spend sometime to chat with them. They showed so much care to me and kept encourage me “be good in school” (it made me feel like I am a five years old). For the rest of the day, I was able to be more focus and more cheerful. This is amazing part of life. The stranger’s life event may turn out to push you moving forward in your life. We all unintentionally play a role in someone else’s life. When something unpleasant happened, it could be an opportunity; and when things go perfectly smooth, it may lead to a crisis. In an informational society, we construct our goal base on reaction to the society. Therefore, stellar time is the best concept to fit in our living.

2.The hypertext is well-designed and 15 minutes is not enough to read through the whole thing for me. However, I do get the meaning behind the text. Its form tells us that the life is not a linear experience; it contents numerous possibilities in every single step that we choose. We choose something which attracts us the most at that moment, and then we might step into something we expected the least. On the web, we are able to click “back” icon and discover the other possibilities; sadly, we can not do this in our real life to explore if there was a better solution in our previous life. As Greek philosopher Heracleitus’ famous analogy of life: “Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.” This hypertext also reminds me that movie "The curious case of Benjamin Button" which illustrates an alternative of the common life.
I was more attracted to nouns than complex sentences in the text. Probably it is because I am an easy-going person and I tend to choose simple solution while I face challenge. However, easy solutions may lead to more confusing situation. That is the tricky part of life.