Life is Truly a Garden of Forking Paths

Just like World of Warcraft, Starcraft, Naruto, Bleach, Tumblr, and other things, whenever something becomes really well known it always takes me a while to get into it. I always heard of Twitter but I never got into it. I made a Twitter for this class and I have to say its not bad. Following people on Twitter has a different feel than Facebook. On Twitter, people post anything on their mind but on Facebook it's only the important statuses that get posted.

It was nice to see what my classmates were posting. Since they are, of course, not my close friends it was interesting to see how people of different ages and different social groups thought.

Teleological time influences me the most. Out of all my tweets, 50% was teleological, 25% was stellar, and 25% was entropic. Of course, this isn't really surprising since we discussed in class that our society has adapted such a way of thinking. I definitely was affected by what my peers tweeted but mostly in one way. Whenever someone said they wanted something or just had something, then it would make me want it.

There were quite a few things that happened unexpectedly that affected me drastically. As mentioned above, one of my peers had their class canceled on one of the days that it rained heavily. I was jealous and really wanted it too because I was stressed from so many assignments. Lo and behold, my theatre class was canceled one day when I had to give a speech and it was the best feeling ever! Another thing that really disrupted my life, well at least my English class, was that for a while Twitter would not let me post. This made me really stressed because it was preventing me from doing one of the few assignments that I actually wanted to do. My peers said I may have been in Twitter jail but that shouldn't have been the case because that happened when my account was only a few days old. The last major thing that disrupted my life was that a favorite website of mine for reading manga had practically shut down. I say "practically" because the site was still up but you could view any material. To me, it's like finding out that your favorite coffee shop could not serve you coffee anymore.

As for spending 15 minutes playing with the hypertext above, I could not. When I click on the link, it takes me to Yahoo.com and says "Sorry, the GeoCities web site you were trying to reach is no longer available." So I guess I can reflect on the Borge's reading to make up, perhaps? I really loved the concept of the reading because I always had a similar way of thinking about time already. Through out our lives we always make choices and it always interests me to think about how different my life would be if I had done things differently. That's why I love the concept of life being a garden of forking paths in time. A movie that really inspired this idea in me was the movie called "The One" starring Jet Li. It was about a life with 122 alternate realities all coexisting at the same time and you could travel between them using a device. So basically, I would like to see how different my other selves would be like if I had taken different paths in life. For now I will just try my best to lead a fun-filled life.