Television vs Telephone

Does the television have a greater effect on people’s lives than the telephone does?  To answer this question, we have to take in one important factor.  What is an “effect on someone’s life?”  Does this mean the time it takes out of their day, or how important the device is to them?   These two questions can lead to different answers.  If an effect was the time it takes out of their day, I would say on average that the television would take up more of people’s time.  Even though people may talk more frequently on the phone than watch the television, people will watch the T.V for a number of hours while they may only talk on the phone for a number of minutes.  However if an effect refers to the importance of the device to the person, I would say that the telephone is much more important.  This is because the telephone allows people to talk to each other at different places whereas the television is just a form of entertainment.  There are many other things to entertain yourself with but only one way to talk to people in different places.

If you asked me the question, does the television have a greater effect on people’s lives than the telephone does, I would say overall that the telephone has a greater effect on people’s lives due to its importance in the world.  This importance creates a huge effect on people’s lives because instead of having to travel a long ways either by car and wasting gas, or by foot or bike and wasting energy, you would be able to talk to another person while you are both in separate places.  This is great for a traveling husband, to call an ambulance, or even to order pizza. 

I would say the telephone is more effective than the television because of all the major advancements the telephone has lead to.  The television has only lead to newer smaller or thinner televisions with more definition, but the telephone has led to major companies, smaller and faster telephones, satellites for casual talking and texting, texting, video chatting, and much more.  The ways of talking to other people without meeting them face to face has become so popular because you would be able to tell friends where to meet and when.  The television on the other hand is just a newer form of entertainment that keeps kids from reading and doing homework.  It has a hard factor on school life.  Another thing about the television is that it has increases the amount of laziness and thus weight gain for people.  For example, many people will sit down and watch the television while eating unhealthy foods and drinking unhealthy beverages at least once a week.  I know I do that.  This has lead to people becoming more interested in sitting down and watching T.V than going outside and playing.  The telephone has no effect like that whatsoever. 

   All in all, I would say that the telephone has a greater effect on people’s lives, in a positive way, than the television, which also has an effect on people’s lives, but a bad one.  The telephone has lead to greater inventions and will keep prospering while the television will just become smaller or larger, thinner or thicker, and with more definition.  This shows that the telephone was a great change for people due to its great ability to communicate two or more people, while they are in different places.  The television is only another form of entertainment that makes people lazy and fat.  The telephone will lead to great things but the television will not.

Define Sucess

                Today I was told to define success.  In my opinion, success is a hard thing to reach.  Success is when everything that you had hope for goes perfectly and you even get more than you had hoped for.  You have to put in a lot of hard work to be successful.  That is why many people can’t be successful.  Perfect lives only come around once in a while and it is hard to achieve, but if you want it badly enough, and you are willing to do whatever it takes, you can be successful in anything.

                Success does not have to be something major.  It could be a simple as perfecting a recipe or perfecting an invention.  Success just means that you would accomplish something perfectly.  For example if you want to make a cake and you do it so well that it seems better than how the recipe explained it, you would be successful.  Or if you finish a video game and get the highest score, you will be successful. 

                Many people would say success has to deal with money.  In a sense, it does, but it also does not.  If you achieve a massive amount of money from hard work, you would consider yourself successful.  However, success doesn’t mean just having a lot of money.  It truly means applying yourself to achieve something that you really wanted and doing it so perfectly that it seems better than what you expected. 

You can also feel success when something that really aggravates you is solved.  Whether

it is something small like a splinter in your hand that you are trying to get out, or something as large as a company trying to interfere or hurt you in your life financially.  Once you solve these problems, you feel relief and all the stress has left your body.  This can be considered as a feeling of success, since you have overcome your troubles by dealing with them yourself.  this is true success. 

Success is a rich feeling of accomplishment.  A task that concerns you and frustrates you always makes you stressed.  To overcome this problem, you put in most of your effort to solve it.  If the problem gets worse, you put in all your effort.  This creates you to focus all of yourself on that one problem and you won’t stop until it is solved.  Most people never give up in a situation like this because they want to feel the sense of success.  If someone does give up, they feel as if they lost a war and are depressed and angry.  On the other hand, most people who stay with the battle of the problem and themselves eventually overcome the problem and feel that all the anger and stress and hatred has been lifted off of them.  That rich, reliving feeling is success and that is the best way that I can define it.  You feel good about yourself and this helps boost your self esteem.  Success is one o the great feelings in life and you need it to help your self-appreciation grow.

My Bucket List

                I don’t have a bucket list but if I was to have one, it would probably consist of three major things that I would want to do in my life.  These things would have to be encounters or achievements that no one has ever done before.  For example, I have been to Machu Picchu and this is amazing to me and to most people.  However, there have been many other people that have been to Machu Picchu and some people who even life there.  This is why it would not be on my bucket list, although I will remember it for the rest of my life.  If I was to have a bucket list, it would consist of things that almost no one has done.  Some people may say skydiving would be on their list.  There have been so many people who skydive.  Everyday there are probably over one thousand people who do it.  Wouldn’t you want to do things that only a few number of people have done?

                The first thing that would be on my bucket list would be to experience zero gravity.  There have been a lot of people who have, but not a huge number.  You don’t have to go up in space to experience zero gravity; there is a plane that flies with maneuvers that use physics to create a zero gravity effect.  This means that I won’t have to pay all that money to go up in space, but instead, I could pay a smaller amount to experience zero gravity while in our atmosphere.  The first thing that I would do would be to pour out water and drink it in the air.  Then I would have fun with back flips, lifting huge weights, and all sorts of things.

                The second thing on my bucket list would be to fly off a steep mountain in a flying squirrel suit.  I don’t know exactly what they call it, but I have heard that name being used.  This suit has webbed fabric from your hands to your waist and also in between your whole legs.   This webbed fabric allows you to pull your arms and legs out to create a gliding effect,

but also to contract them close to your body to pick up speed and dive.  To do this would be very dangerous and you would need a lot of practice before attempting.  Only stunt masters can handle the maneuvering methods that are necessary in flying with a flying squirrel suit.  I would want to do this because it would be so fun and that would probably be the closest thing to flying by myself that I would come to.  I have seen videos of this being done and it looks amazing.  You can dive, pick up speed, and then expand and let the wind coming up underneath you sweep you up and through the air.  Ever since I have seen this, I have always wanted to try it someday.

                The final thing that I would have on my bucket list would be kind of cheesy, but it is true.  I would want to have raised a perfect family.  I know perfect is impossible, but perfect in my eyes is.  If I can raise a family that is the most important thing to me in the world, I would have completed my life.   A family of my own would be the most important thing that I would have in my life, and that is why it would be the third thing on my bucket list.  The third thing is the most important.  And after I have tried and attempted the other two, the third will be waiting for me.  Although I do not have a bucket list, these three things would probably be on it if I had had one. 

If I coulld have one Superpower

There are many super powers that people make up to try and make life more exciting and give life a new fantasy like view.  I have always believed in super powers when I was a kid and I would do anything it took to have the superpower I wanted.  Now I realize that the powers are made up but I have to go back to my childhood to find my favorite power because today’s topic is “If I were to have one super power, what would it be and why.” 

                I want all of the super power, but doesn’t everyone?  However, my super power would be to become incredibly smart.  Yes I know that you are like this guy is lame, I mean, why wouldn’t I have chosen super strength or the ability to fly, or the ability to shoot fire out of my body like Johnny from the Fantastic Four.  All these would be great, but with incredible intelligence, I could make my own super powers like in the movie Ironman.  I would get my inspiration from him and with super intelligence, I would be able to find a source of power in a small capsule and I would build a suit to be able to harness the energy and dispose of it through the feet or the hands.  Incredible intelligence would give me the power to make almost anything I want, or decide whether that thing is impossible.  Some people may want the power to disappear.  I could make a suit that can do the exact thing.  People want to fly, I am sure that I could invent something small that can do that.  Others may want to be super strong.  I would be able to make something that could give you that, whether it is a drug or a machine that attaches to your muscles.  The super power of incredible intelligence would kind of cheat my way into the super powers I want.

                Now you may still believe that this level of intelligence is impossible to reach, but isn’t flying or turning invisible impossible too? I was told I could have any super power that I want.  Now my intelligence power would not just be super smart, instead, I would know everything in the universe and instead of only using a small percentage of my mind, like most humans do, I would be able to use the whole thing.  If I knew everything, my life would be so easy, I could hack random things in my house and improve them, I would be able to invent things that would give me huge amounts of cash.  I would also be able to think of the right thing to do if I am in danger, it’s like I could have “spidey senses”.  All of these infinite things come with the power of incredible intelligence.

                You may say I would be a nerd, but if I knew everything, wouldn’t I be a stud?  I could still work out to get buff, and I would know what exercise is the best.  Women would be so easy.  I would be able to know exactly what they want and when they want it.  I would also get them with the cash and the inventions. Who knows, my incredible intelligence could give me the power to talk to people through their minds, or the ability to move things without touching them.  Using one-hundred percent of your mind can lead to amazing things.  If I wanted to live forever, I would find a way.  Either a drug or a freezing machine, or a device that keeps your age stagnant. 

                With incredible intelligence, I would be cheating all the other people’s wishes by being able to create them.  I know that I would hesitate in saying that I want that, but after thinking hard, I would definitely go for my decision.  I want to be incredibly intelligent.