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title: "Books"
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date: 2023-04-09T00:46:11+02:00
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Everything started with walking, understanding what people around me were
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saying, recognizing the dangers that are out there, learning cultures, to
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eventually being broad to an institution that is supposed to teach me about
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*life* - school. That is where I was forced to read. Everyday, non stop, till I
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reached that deadline and had to write a summary of what I learned during that
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period. "Is this what life is all about?" I asked myself. "So I will be forced
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to read books and study topics that I have never seen being used in real life for
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the next 9 years (minimum)?"
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I have passed the first 9 grades studying my state, basic algebra, sociology,
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basic law, making a small website, biology, etc. etc. Yet if I was to be tasked
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with a minor issue in real life, I would find an excuse that would delay my action
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or completely throw the problem out of my life altogether. How is it, that most
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kids nowadays hate learning? The second they hear the word *math* their first
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emotions are suffering, pain, and boredom.
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We went from encouraging the contributions to humanity to making it seem like
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it is the dullest activity someone could be doing to keep themselves busy. In my
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opinion, we have created that by constructing a wrong educational system over
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time and letting social media companies get away with selling their social
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platforms to us. "What does social media have to do with learning?" you might
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ask. Let me reply to that with "When iss the last time you were in the middle of
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studying something very important, got frusturated at it, and decided to
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distract yourself for a little while?"
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The majority of us does that on a daily basis and we cannot deny the
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uselessness of social media. No matter how much you try to hide it, you will know
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that most of it does not provide any sort of value whatsoever and is just a
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time killer engineered in a specific way to extrapolate as many minutes of your
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attention as possible.
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"Oh, but you can educate yourself through social media" - Ignoring sites like
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Youtube, how in world do you think that those 200 characters that you can fit
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into your post will give anyone a good understanding of any topic.
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"Oh, but I need to talk to my friends" - Yup, ever heard of SMS before? Look, I
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would totally understand.. if it was just ONE application. Why the fuck does
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the majority have 4 platforms that all provide the same god damn service. Some
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alternatives to SMS may include email, IRC, self-hosted chat server (if you
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know what you are doing), matrix, etc.
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Over the course of my teenagehood I realized how strongly this can impact one's
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thinking abilities. In just a span of a year I turned my brain upside down and
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had completely the opposite opinions from what I used to have before. How did
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that happen though? Well, I deleted a good part of the social media I used to
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use, I started investing more time in myself, I started talking and listening
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to myself, I started seeing failure as the potential to grow rather than what I
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was taught at school (failure = failed individual), and what I noticed in the
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last 2 to 4 months was what I now call *The Deception of Everything*.
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Biology, Sociology, Psychology, Mathematics, Physics!! They are all connected
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with what I initially thought was the only field I would ever truly admire and
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love! Computers! They are all interconnected subjects! A firing of neurons
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finally made sense! What is so special about all of those subjects, and.. any
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subject for that matter!! There will always be a reason people have invented it
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and if I had to study it in school, there was probably a good reason. Because
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it is all just connected and interesting! "No shit" you might think, but you
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see, that is the problem. The fact that most of the people around me have not
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realized it by now scares the shit out of me. Or at least.. that is how it
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seems.
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The mentioned event also occured in the most perfect timing it could have. As I
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realized it, I was also in the middle of figuring out that books are way more
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interesting than what I was taught at school. Here, I am not forced to learn
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anything, I do not explore because I have to. I am doing it because it is so fun
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it makes me start laughing by just thinking of it. I felt such an idiot to
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finally realize how stupidy interesting it actually is I stayed there in my
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dark room for 5 minutes laughing. And as I am now scrolling through the Amazon's
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homepage of books, I cannot help myself but to smile everytime I see a book that
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sparkles my interest.
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