Time and Destiny

1) I think time is Stellar and Teleological for most twitters and I because everyone has some sort of idea about how their day will end, but sometimes things happen that ultimately change you eventual actions. For example tomorrow you may plan on driving to school or work; however someone else’s plan for the day might be to steal a car. That car just happened to be your car. Ultimately you’re forced to miss work or school all because of some stranger. On twitter most people have some sort of purpose in their daily lives I am pretty sure no one just sits around all day without trying to accomplish something they planned. You might have planned on just sleeping all day and then someone else’s action or comment may make you do otherwise. For example when the professor mentioned Good Will Hunting it made me reflect on some of Matt Damon’s movies and I eventually decided to watch the Bourne Ultimatum. If it wasn’t for her comment I would have went to the gym instead, so if I start getting fat it’s because of her Good Will Hunting comment. Everyone is unique in their own way but we do share similarities with others, so even if you’re a leader and not a follower I think it’s safe to say that a lot of your actions will be the result of someone else’s doing or opinion. Therefore I don’t time clearly falls within one category, I think its Teleological and Stellar.

2) The hypertext activity was very confusing but I think it kind of symbolizes life and your destiny. Your destiny is in your hands but you’re unable to accurately choose what you want your destiny to be. For example you could freely choose any words on the text to click but you can’t choose where this text will lead you and every word you click on has a detrimental effect to where you will end up in the text. I think this can be compared to real life as well because you chose to go to school at Baruch instead of many other colleges however your life would have turned out to be completely different, you may have met you future spouse at one of these other schools or many other different scenarios, your life could have been better or worst but you would never be able to know. Which I think brings up a special point as to why it doesn’t make sense to have regrets because you have no way of knowing what the future holds. So what I think the text is saying is that your destiny is in your hands but you’re just not aware of how to choose and this is what I think makes life so challenging. I the hypertext I just kept going in circle I was mostly attracted to words that pertained to violence such as: murder, revolver and hang. My main reasons for choosing those words were because I thought they would lead to the most interesting parts or they were all somehow connected.