Is it good to be organized?; Seeing is not Believing!

To skip my midlife crisis, go past the dotted line!


Life has honestly become more and more of a mechanical grind. More than it ever has been, I think.

I wake up at a pre-determined time in the mornings, calculated precisely the night (or morning, hehe) before to account for leftover homework, head to school and finish it, and follow my generic schedule. After-school is pretty mechanical too. I have my schedules all planned out, for each day of the week. Mondays are scholarship, then doc!'s room. Tuesdays are cram for violin lesson. Wednesdays are violin lesson, and Thursdays are quartet. Well, you get the idea.

Even the stuff we learn is pretty mechanical. English will always be vocabulary, and analytical essays. Math will be.... math... and physics will be real world applications of math with lots of equations (kind of?)

So, I don't really know anymore. My friends, teachers, and family all seem to believe that being organized is a good thing. Especially after today, when I had a long talk with my dad about "having a sense of direction, of where I'm headed." I don't know though, if it's good to know everything about where I'm headed. Kind of takes the fun and thrill out of things, especially considering that I only get three more years to be a teenager.

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While pondering above thoughts, I had a water glass on my desk...

I quickly noticed an everyday example of refraction--the tendency of light to travel at different speeds through different mediums.

Light travels more quickly through air than it does through water. As a result, it creates a distorted image of a straw:



And here's some guy who saw the same thing I did, but with a straw, because that's normally what people have in water glasses. Comes with some analysis; which is cool, so I don't have to do any~.



So, although the straw appears to be bent from an overhead observer, the picture indicates that the 'real straw' is a continuation of the straw above the surface of the water, just like our brains would like to believe.