Compassionate Science

I don't believe I have the power to change the world.  I am simply another average person trying to make an average living.  I have high goals and expectations for myself, but even so the results will probably only be average.
I actually do want to work in something that involves medicine or technology.  Not really to help people, or even for the money... all I want is to have a respectable job that's at least a little higher than average.  It's not that I don't want to help people or work for the money, because if I was given the opportunity, I would.  If I had the creativity, I would definitely help people and try to mend this broken home we call Earth.
See, I don't think I can be devoted to something like saving the world.  In order to be compassionate, you must be passionate.  A person has to truly want to do something in order to succeed. It's very admirable to see that there are people that can strive for greatness out there when they could be doing something that's more beneficial to themselves.  Compassion enhances the tools we are given and helps us make something better than for our own good.  It's very challenging to have true compassion because most people are selfish whether they admit it or not.  I know I am. 

The Future

In my opinion, we humans are capable of limitless inventions. Up to today, we have manifested technology and ideas that might have seemed inhuman or even godly to our ancestors just a few centuries or even decades before.  Another century from now the world will have changed immensely, not only in its structure, but also in the way of life of individuals. (Now, in my opinion, there are many obstacles that we see today that obstruct us from discovering infinite truths.  Obstacles such as testing on humans and also the abundance of people that retard our growth wether its because of stupidity or simply just their uselessness to society.  If these obstacles did not exist then we could have been even more advanced as it is and I could give you examples like when Christians delayed the Renaissance period because of their self-destructive beliefs and whatnot.)  Anyway, the future holds things we might not even be able to imagine yet.  Any little event in history could alter the course of the future and the possibilities are endless.

I imagine that we're going to corrupt the Earth unless we do something about that.  We are also going to make advances that facilitate our lives and we are going to depend on them.  I feel like the end of the world as we know it will be brought upon by ourselves if not nature itself.  I mean the sun is a star and eventually it's going to explode, right? There are also things like dormant super volcanoes that destroyed Earth several times before us and they might just destroy everything again. Then there's nuclear warfare, I'm pretty sure America alone has enough to exterminate a whole chunk of Earth.  However, there's good things that could come out of it such as curing diseases and coming in contact with other galaxies.

I like to imagine that one day we will be able to bring the dead back to life or even time travel. I also want to believe that we will create our own genetically perfect humans and build a utopian society where everyone is genius and beautiful and simply perfect. 

One Time I Laughed Really, Really Hard...

Back in the 7th grade I had a cute little hamster, at least he looked cute.  Out of all the hamsters I ever had, this one was the most energetic and the most violent. His name was Joe. One hot summer day, my closest friends and I were gathered in my room eating watermelon and cooling off.  One of my friends, Yanelyn whom was very fond of animals, wandered off to look at Joe.  She asked me if she could hold him, and I told her "Sure, if you can get him out." So she did.  She let him run freely on the floor and he went behind a drawer with hair products sitting on top of it and when she reached behind to get the hamster she accidentally knocked over a bottle of hairspray and it landed on the hamster and she squealed.  When we turned to look she was on the verge of tears and she was just holding Joe and yelling "No! No! I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry!" I went over to see what had happened and I told her it was okay (I was planning to give the hamster away anyway). I was just so amused to see her destroyed over it because she tried to bring it back to life by pressing on its little chest and trying to give it CPR.  After she calmed down, we decided to get rid of the body, but I was uncomfortable leaving in my trash can because I was afraid something nasty might happen, or worse he would come back to life and crawl around my house.  We put it in a sandwich bag, but I didn't want to look at the corpse, so we wrapped it in toilet paper and left it in the bag again. However, to make sure the corpse wouldn't crawl out, we filled the bag with sand.  Then I told her to open the large trash bin outside, but in the end we just left it in the recycling bin.  It was a strange and probably cruel experience, but looking back at it... we always get a kick out of it. Heaven knows what became of Joe.

My Review of Modern Times

In my opinion, Modern Times (1936) was a very successful film for its time since it was a silent film created after sound technology had become popular in the movie industry.  They also included some effects that would have really awed the audience like the workers getting eaten by machines and two-way sound screens at work. The message is conveyed to the audience was that the world was unhappy, and it would also be in the future.  By creating a film comparing both the future and the present, Chaplin was able to show the audience his understanding of reality.  He displayed poverty and the struggles of life at the time.  Not only did he understand his audience, but he was able to appeal to them by giving them a good laugh.  Chaplin also expressed his opinions very boldly in the film.  For example, he showed the boss of the company as a lazy oaf that just bosses the workers around.  The film itself was very nice and I liked laughing throughout it. Overall, I'd say the movie came together quite well and it was also a great tribute to Chaplin's silent character "The Little Tramp".