Tuesday July 9th

Today we talked about passion, emotion, and rationality from the story, “The Stranger”. I believe Mersault lived life, he was not cursed with the level of consciousness that most of us have. The problem is only very few live anymore. People are constantly setting high expectations for each situation and they’re always let down and by the time they realize their expectation didn't matter, and that it was the appreciation of the moment that is important, the moment is gone and sadness sets in. We think too much, we don’t do. Assuming we are psychopaths, we need to act more on passion rather than over thinking a situation. I believe the reason this is very rare is because of the technological age that we are living in. We now have the time to think, prepare, and plan on what we're going to say when someone texts, or instant messages us. This creates a lot of problems, first, it creates a very distant and cold relationship between the two people, and secondly, it allows for people to lie about their true feelings much easier. I really believe if we lived in a world where people did more "doing" than talking, we'd live in a happier time.