first draft intro

watching a favorite television show sure can be entertaining and for most people, a hobby for pure enjoyment. it does sound appealing, right. sitting motionless, eyes glued to the tempting glass screen, using your most important senses (or so we are lead to believe) of sight and hearing. the program continues and you are oblivious to your surroundings even ignoring the fact that you need to use the bathroom because the most anticipated scene of the show is about to come on.

laing argues that parts of us are scattered, that we are isolated from our own experiences. that people are taught from birth to ignore most of their own experience and that a normal person is one who does that successfully. especially our physical experiences. people are not familiar with feeling their own experience from being so warped into the ideal, which causes society to forget how to use even the simplest of senses, like going to---- r.d laing may be right, i am slightly made of up incomplete fragments rather than a whole in examining the modalities of my own experience because i mostly ignore the noumenon. i still try my best to finish talking to my friends on aim before doing something beneficial like taking a walk in central park. however, through the process of considering r.d laing's arguments i have gained real insight into my life.

The Stand

my class was assigned a standing experiment for six minutes. during this standing experiment i did not really notice anything significant except the fact that i was standing still, my feet planted on the ground and it irritated me quite a lot. in school and out, i'm either walking or sitting in a comfortable position or always doing something. i guess i have not taken notice when i stand still. one thing i noticed was that my balance was sort of uneven as well. i also noticed most of the people around me struggled to focus on standing still. my shoes felt glued to the floor yet i was still a little wobbly, as if standing still, breathing, and relaxing was an unnatural thing to do. i believe it was a challenging experiment which is sad to say since physically it's a very easy and doable task. even the simple things like standing still in one place can sometimes feel unfamiliar.

we live in a fast paced society and we have grown accustom to getting everything done and rushing through it; not really noticing how we feel since relaxing seens so foreign and new.

i defininitely notice how nice it is to relax but i am so caught up with wanting to do something that the stand experiment made me feel uncomfortable. like i wanted to sit down and write and do forty thousand things at once knowing it takes much more effort and energy, but i realized i prefered this over standing still for six minutes because i've grown accustom to doing it. i think in the future, for my own benefit i will pay more attention to when i'm not doing anything and enjoy my muscles being relaxed. i feel like if i do that i will have more insight with both realms of our society: the working and the relaxing since most of us are oblivious to the latter and don't absorb the feeling.