Thinking...Talking...

[Solayo]

Hahaha... I make so many mistakes here...

Anyway, I want to start the random questions again but in a new way of sorts... This time, I'll just post one question at a time, leaving room for discussion (I hope...) I won't be posting new questions regularly though. My time's gonna be as random as my questions!

Here's my first question... Are there times when you consider something very important but other people think otherwise?

For me, yes there are. Like drawing comics, for instance. I think it's important because it can be my way of expression and it can be my way of influencing others but some of the people I know think it's not important because for them, it's just scribbling stuff on paper and such.

[pooperson]

[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"][SIZE="1"]Yes, yes, & yes. My big one is [B]music.[/B]
I take music more seriously than most 17 year-old high school students. I play a variety of instruments, & I am planning on majoring in music education at one of the top education schools in the state.
I am listening to music literally 24/7. School kills me when I can't listen to it.
When I'm not listening to music, I am creating it. I am always playing or singing... always.
My favorite is when I'm driving. I HAVE to turn my radio up ALL THE WAY, & I HAVE to sing louder than it. At all times.
Before we were dating, my boyfriend was playing the piano in the band room before marching band practice (I was drum major)... he was playing 100 Years by Five For Fighting on the piano, & God... it was incredible. So I'm standing there just freaking out at how beautiful it is, & he stops and says, "It's just music." I went off on him, reiterating that there's no such thing as "just" music. Ahh... I love him.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

[Sojiro47]

[FONT="Book Antiqua"]Yep yep. I think everybody has something that others think is totally pointless. Two of the important things in my life are music and Karate. I'm with Taperson on the music bit. Not as far as she, but whatever. However, most of the people around me are musicians, so I don't hear much about that.

Karate, on the other hand, is probably the most important thing to me in the world, and boy! Do I catch hell for it. I am often being told that I can live life without karate. But my comeback for that, ironically, is "Imagine life without music. That's what you're telling me." A little different, the two are, but it gets the point across. [/FONT]

[silpheedpilot]

[COLOR="SlateGray"][SIZE="1"]There is always something to someone that is far more important than others give them credit for.

For instance I love skateboarding. Some people tell me I'll never go pro and that it's a wasted hobby. That along with video games, which I covet even above skateboarding.

Its just all in your tastes, don't let anyone tell you that what you like is unimportant, ya know?[/SIZE][/COLOR]

[2010DigitalBoy]

[COLOR="DarkOrange"]Anime, and otakudom in general. My friends all make fun of me for being too much of an otaku and get pissed at all my anime spewing babble. Hell, even this site picks on me for being an otaku (they need to change the ****ing name of this site...).

Anime is simply my way of life, and it's the same way for millions of other people out there (expecially in a certain other country) and there's no one on the outside who understands it. Everyone has their owwn way of hating it, from the douchebags who think culture integration is for fags to people who yap on about how retarded a 2d Complex is when they don't know the first thing about it.

Otakudom is one of the most hated things one can have, regardless of where you live, only because most don't understand it. I'm glad, however, to have a friend who's a biger otaku than me, or I'd go crazy =_=

[quote name='taperson']My favorite is when I'm driving. I HAVE to turn my radio up ALL THE WAY, & I HAVE to sing louder than it. At all times.[/quote]

XD that's so me and my mom. When we drive the music is always blasting and we duet all the songs at throat-destroying levels. Good fun...[/COLOR]

[Solayo]

[quote name='2008DigitalBoy'][COLOR="DarkOrange"]Anime, and otakudom in general. My friends all make fun of me for being too much of an otaku and get pissed at all my anime spewing babble. Hell, even this site picks on me for being an otaku (they need to change the ****ing name of this site...).

Anime is simply my way of life, and it's the same way for millions of other people out there (expecially in a certain other country) and there's no one on the outside who understands it. Everyone has their owwn way of hating it, from the douchebags who think culture integration is for fags to people who yap on about how retarded a 2d Complex is when they don't know the first thing about it.

Otakudom is one of the most hated things one can have, regardless of where you live, only because most don't understand it. I'm glad, however, to have a friend who's a biger otaku than me, or I'd go crazy =_=
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I get this too... I'm reminded of the time I applied for an anime/manga lovers organization. My dad was against it since it was just a special interest organization and he thought it much better for me to join either an academic org or something like that. Anyway, I ended up failing to join probably because I was so thrilled at the prospect of joining an anime org that I forgot to work for it. =^_^=

[DeathKnight]

[color=crimson]Millions perhaps in Japan, lol. Anime is not entirely taking over the larger portion of American society. It is still a niche.

Taste is innately subjective. You stumble on people talking about things you cannot force yourself to find interesting, and, even if you do not know it, the same happens to you.

Intellectually? History is boring as **** to some people. Politics, geography, and literature as well. Boring to me? Mathematics. I cannot fathom anything remotely interesting about any aspect of higher mathematics.

Culturally? I love video games and music. I am not really at all into most popular television shows. Never seen an episode of American Idol, Lost, or Desperate Housewives. Music alone touches on a wide range of people lost entirely in naive devotion to singular genres and people who hate entire swaths of music for unintelligible reasons.

Even now there are only a few devotees reading with rapt attention my words of indescribable wisdom. Surprising, but true.[/color]

[Aaryanna]

[COLOR="goldenrod"][FONT="Comic Sans MS"][quote name='Solayo;800882]Here's my first question... Are there times when you consider something very important but other people think otherwise?[/QUOTE]It's unavoidable, because even if I am unaware of it. There will always be things I consider important that others do not. So long as that doesn't translate into them trying to stop or interfere with the activity or thing I consider important. I'm fine with it. After all, they have things I consider unimportant as well. [quote name='DeathKnight'][color=crimson']Intellectually? History is boring as **** to some people. Politics, geography, and literature as well. Boring to me? Mathematics. I cannot fathom anything remotely interesting about any aspect of higher mathematics. [/color][/quote]No fair. Here I was going to bonk you for thinking Math is boring, but then you had to go and ruin it by admitting that history can be boring to people. Which means I have to forgive you for that statement about Math. :p [/FONT][/COLOR]

[Allamorph]

[quote name='Solayo']Hahaha... I make so many mistakes here...[/quote]
[FONT=Arial]Eh, don't sweat it. Happens to all of us.

[QUOTE][I]Here's my first question... Are there times when you consider something very important but other people think otherwise?[/I][/QUOTE]
It's a well-intentioned question, but unfortunately is very easily answered. The answer is always yes, since the answerer can always throw down the "people all have different values" card. That's all well and good, but it doesn't really make for good discussion.

So I propose a related question: are there things or ideas?which you believe are supremely important and which others do not?where you cannot understand how these others can view these ideas so trivially?

And bother scholastics.[/FONT]

[Solayo]

[quote name='Allamorph'][FONT=Arial]
It's a well-intentioned question, but unfortunately is very easily answered. The answer is always yes, since the answerer can always throw down the "people all have different values" card. That's all well and good, but it doesn't really make for good discussion.

So I propose a related question: are there things or ideas?which you believe are supremely important and which others do not?where you cannot understand how these others can view these ideas so trivially?

And bother scholastics.[/FONT][/QUOTE]

Thanks for that... I kinda felt that question I asked was rather rhetorical...oh well... Haha, let's go with Allamorph's proposal then, shall we? =^_^=

[eleanor]

[quote name='Allamorph'][FONT=Arial]
So I propose a related question: are there things or ideas—which you believe are supremely important and which others do not—where you cannot understand how these others can view these ideas so trivially?
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[font="trebuchet ms"] Not pursuing what you want. I know a lot of people who scoff at others when they go into film school or art school or major in English (haha, very funny >_>) because they say "what are they going to do for a living"? I admire people who stick to their passions through the sweat but in the end fail a million times more than people who follow a job they'll hate just to make a lot of money.

I know the situations can be different, like if you're a dad who has to support a family you can't go wild and pursue your dream of being a rock star, but I think when you're young and have the energy you should try what you want. All of my friends just look at me weird when I say I don't care how much money I make if I have a job I love, but I can't imagine being happy with a job I hate. [/font]

[AzureWolf]

[quote name='Lunox'][font="trebuchet ms"] Not pursuing what you want. I know a lot of people who scoff at others when they go into film school or art school or major in English (haha, very funny >_>) because they say "what are they going to do for a living"? I admire people who stick to their passions through the sweat but in the end fail a million times more than people who follow a job they'll hate just to make a lot of money. [/font][/QUOTE]In that case, you will ADORE me. Now, I just need to lure you into my gingerbread house and I will be one happy camper, hehe. O_O

Anyway, that sentiment is important in this day and age. In Georgetown, most of my peers were 25, which just blew my mind. But they seemed more... fulfilled. They took time to dabble in other interests and were less... disturbed than the rest of us.