Everything's Amazing & Nobody's Happy

This video definitely makes me feel a little more grateful for the technology I have now. I can't imagine living in the olden days; the technology in my world has consumed a lot of my world. I guess I can see where Louis C.K. is coming from. I have one of the laggiest phones in the world and I sometimes take it for granted. Something I definitely took for granted was my laptop. It's now in a really broken state and can't support itself unless I prop my entire Harry Potter collection behind it. I became really used to having a laptop at my fingertips at school and I find myself complaining that I have to use gigantic desktops in its place. I should be really thankful of the resources I have at hand. A lot of people don't a have a phone at all, so I should be really thankful for mine and the same goes out to the school's computers. I'm very thankful to the school for letting me use them as learning resources. Like Louis C.K. said, just because I've become accustomed to the newest things in technology doesn't mean I deserve them. The world doesn't owe me anything if my cell phone freezes, or if the school's desktops are taking a litle slower than usual. At least I have all of this amazing technology available to me, whereas they hadn't even heard of laptops in like 1960! My dad is contsatnly telling me stories of when he was a little kid, he didn't half a tenth of the things he spoils me with now. Cellphones? He didn't even have a phone in his bedroom that he shared with his three brothers. Laptops? They didn't even have a desktop. "Another iPod? I didn't need those when I was a kid... that's what spoons were for!' I'm amazed at how much of my life depends on technology now compared to my dad's old days. I have an iPod for running, laptop for schoolwork, cellphone to fulfill my textaholic needs and a bajillion dollar graphing calculator for my impossible math homework. Tonight I was actually doing a math unit and needed help from my dad, and he was like teaching me how to do everything algebraically like on paper and I was able to do th same thing in like five seconds witha graphing calculator. I'd be so dead without it; I would have no idea of how to figure out if my original parabola is equal to the new one I put into some other form. I need this big fat calculator to do my work whereas my dad was just jotting it all down on paper. I feel like one day humans are gonna be too dependant on computers on doing work like that for them and we're gonna forget how to do our own manual work! D; Anyways, I think the most important thing I've taken from this blog entry is to be thankful for what our technological world has. Our technology has come really far and it's just going to keep getting better and better. Our youth should listen more to the stories of the past in order to be more thankful for the things that we have now.

gorgeous, eh? ;) haha, it's the first laptop ever! look how far we've come. :)