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I'm passionate about

Thinking about everything. It doesn't work if it doesn't make sense.

An idea worth spreading

That work ending on Friday is something to celebrate about. Or, otherwise put, that the weekend is not the only thing that saves an otherwise wasted week.

I'm not really sure that this hasn't been spread, but that's how it's been in my experience, some of that including those weird hiphop/club crossover things that are going around.

Talk to me about

Anything at all. I love thinking about things I haven't had the chance to before.

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• A comment on Conversation: Define usefulness? How do we define the validity of anything?

  May 27 2011: I also think it's based on values- what you value, you will call useful because it helps you reach the things that you want, and essentially, that's the goal of anyone's existence.
  
  In response to the last question, I think as humans we all value something- and to judge what that is is not impossible or impractical. Consequently, anyone can and probably does (if inadvertently sometimes) judge what other people value, and hence call useful.

• A comment on Conversation: What do you think a teenager should do when he is interested in so many things that he cannot settle for any option for his future?

  May 27 2011: I know this isn't very concrete, or anything, but what I did was to consider what I enjoy doing, and by that I don't mean a subject. What I do mean is what skills you enjoy employing, and how you enjoy using them. For me, it was analysis, and coupled with the fact that I like (close to, anyway) definite answers, I chose physics.My point is, the subject is only a manifestation of the skills that you use in the course of studying it, so choose based on what you actually enjoy doing everywhere, and pick a subject based on that.
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  A comment on Conversation: Have you reinvented yourself, or started a movement?

  May 27 2011: I just graduated from high school, and I felt I had to reinvent myself over the past year because I realized how much of my life was on some kind of an autopilot: my tastes and actions were defined almost entirely by the social mood. So if doing homework was distasteful to most people, it was to me too. Now, though, while I still don't love homework unconditionally, when I do like it, I have reasons, and those need to fit with who I see myself as and who I want to be. While I don't mean to say that I have some sort of concrete plan for that, I do want to actively shape myself, rather than be a bystander to the process, then wake up later and have regrets.
  
  To me, it really seems like the change has to come from within (no matter how clichéd the expression) because knowing something works in theory, and actually realizing it, are two different things- which is why I don't usually feel advice helps. In the end, I think you have to come to the conclusion yourself, and someone else's idea won't cut it for you, because it doesn't fit perfectly.