Just my little thoughts,

week 6 journal 5 September 29, 2006

Why are we here?

that’s an interesting question, it can be pushed into just about any Cenairo. Like why am I at Wal-Mart? Why am I at work? But I’m asking ‘Why am I here in school?’

Simple. I’m here to learn how to do artwork, and learn how the art world works. Also I’m looking for that piece of paper everyone talks about in high school that is suppose to get you a lot of money. In today’s society we focus a lot on money. Our mind simply can’t resist it.

That is because that is what has been hammered into us since we were little. We want bigger we want better, we want to make you look stupid because our stuff is more expensive then yours! We use name brand so your dumb! Because you don’t use name brand.

It’s in commercials, It’s in advertisements which by the way are every where. Posters. T.V. Music. Radio. Computer. Newspapers. So on and so forth. Anyway we turn our heads it buy this and buy that. No one we are always wanting bigger and better. But how do you get bigger and better?

Money. So the more money the happier we are, because the more we can get. The Bigger the Better we can get. We do this so we can ‘fit in’.

Stop, think about it. Why do we care so much about fitting in? What does the others person’s opinion have to do with us at all anyway? That is one of Americas biggest down falls. Once we can get over this. I think that life will flow much smoother. I know there will be bumps along the way. But once we get over what other people think. We suddenly have the power to say no, or I don’t care, Why do I need this monster t.v.? Its not like my eyes are that big anyway.

Food for thought.

–Shinnen
Gekido