Paperweights to door stoppers

Many of us have paperweights in our lives

Things we do to keep from being overwhelmed and possibly from feeling like cogs inside of a bigger machines 

But can we change paperweights into door stoppers 

Because paperweights don't really add to our lives in the long run 

They just keep us from being blown away 

But is that always a good thing 

Is it a short term measure being constantly being implemented 

Such as watching videos on YouTube 

It can be a paperweight of wasting time and having cheap thrills 

Or it can be a economical tool or a medium for knowledge 

Since you can find a number of free classes

And diy videos

Same as with surfing the web 

 

Or 

Watching tv series

Some of this down to our thoughts on a topic   I will go deeper into this topic in another post 

Free time can become someonelses paid time 

Why not yours 

The same tool can do many functions it just depends on the hand 

Knives can be used to put spread on bread or used to stab and end lives

The hand itself can be used to caress 

To curse 

To calm 

To abuse 

To kill for example strangulation 

So perhaps this year we can turn out paperweights into door stops

To not allow ourselves to be shut off from a wider world

Either of information or opportunity 

Have a sec for tech

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B6ngM0LHxuU

I just saw this advert for what I heard about awhile back 

Useful for the Japanese Olympics

But supposedly it will be with us much earlier 

A lot of people have complained about the direction the advert took 

But I am not 

For me it is one of those borderline techs

It could be useful but could be useless 

We must think 

Why create a translation device in the first place 

And we already have translation devices

Aka our brains

And for a product supposedly about helping people connect it didn't show that in the ad

Because a translator is not for connecting its for demands wants and whims 

When you learn a language you learn the history

The concepts

And contextualisation of what at first are foreign sounds

How good you are in the language is down to your determination 

I've always said tech without soul is a dangerous thing 

The advert clearly shows who this product is for

Tourists 

With the fondness due to their level in the language for an infantile relationship

It also brushed over its actual functions 

Like does it need wifi 

How much battery power does it have 

How many languages is it linked with

How good is its voice recognition 

Is it google translate but portable 

Also it alluded to but brushed off the other important part of active language 

The listening part 

The big fail of guidebooks in the past 

What's the point of asking questions if you don't know what answer to expect and cannot understand the answer anyway

Also can it hear a multitude of voices 

Then there is the question of how it will be used 

Can it block out offensive words 

Imagine a bunch of drunk uncultured fools who are too lazy ignorant and many other things shout obscenities but you don't know what they are saying so you ignore it but now

now with this device and whereas before you know what they are saying 

You didn't ask for this 

True this could happen without the translator but those other people are either natives or will know enough of the language to understand your discontent 

Also can it interpret computer voices such as the other device wearers 

Would it change ungrammatical sentences and make them understood 

Can it only understand people talking in their first language 

 

Would it further alienate journey goers into an easier distinction of tourist and traveler 

How wouldn't that device with the mechanical voice not make you are target for theives and such

Also another facet to this device is 

Will it change the world 

Could it 

Would it 

It could change certain professions or professional spaces 

Such as airports with airport staff given these devices 

Or the police for foolish tourists

Another thing it didn't allude to was the price 

How much would it cost and is it waterproof and is it made of durable stuff 

Will it affect other professions such as teaching will it stop students wanting to learn and government funding 

Will they be banned in certain areas outside of tourist zones

Will there be as I said before targeting of people with the device for their property of their presence 

Which will defeat the purpose of a translation device 

My verdict is no it won't have such a far reaching impact but the gimmick has some bigger issues and goals behind it 

Such as skipping journeys for goals 

It could be the start of the building of bridges 

It could get us to think about language and culture and if they can exist without one another 

Also do we want that world

Is it or could it be the first step in diminishing the idea of a global language and usher in wearable tech 

Could it bred a new kind of traveller and travel experience a new kind of network 

But what people must not forget 

If you are for this is that you don't have language knowledge only mimcry of such but you can just turn off the device when you no longer wish to be understood 

 

Point pinching

Point pinching 

Is something we should avoid

What is point pinching

Its like awarding yourself the seventh place trophy 

It is normally coupled with the phrase 

At least 

Why would or should we align ourselves with least

 less 

not quite best 

Higher ups amongst the rest

If you have a goal you have a goal

and you will be a certain position in relation to such

Dont congratulate yourself on at least starting 

Or at least having a goal 

Because others dont

Other than it being a waste of time it also

it is also a distraction to your growth

Imagine Muhammad Ali in his prime 

sparring with babies and obviously winning and adding it to his professional wins score

You would think it ludicrous

Counting miles under one hundred on a 100,000 mile trip 

Would make others question your focus 

And possibly illegitimise for others your efforts 

Its easy to do when you maybe dont get support from others 

Or you see others providing stats and achievements 

 

But we shouldn't judge ourselves by other's standards 

Especially if they are in different fields 

Real friends pt 1

Real friends 

 The new ye song 

That's come along at the right time

Real friends how many of us have em

How many of us are em

This is something glaring obvious when you are realigning sights 

Climbing heights 

Performing feats and enduring human gruelling hikes

How many real friends do we have

They say you can count them on one hand

But by that logic that means there are some fake friends masquerading as real friends 

Whether that is us or not

How many call you and ask you how are you doing 

For me that never happens 

I don't even get comments on these posts

How many times have we heard I was just thinking of you

The thing is with fakery

Is that we all have time 

We either give it away cheaply or expensively

And pleasures are always accounted for 

Busy is thrown around a lot but 

How many of us are really busy 

Where we too busy to eat or go to the lavatory 

No we are not 

But we can be sped up and so we prioritise people in our eyes

We see people everyday but the question of validity is who they turn out to be 

And if we could interchange them 

Or make time for others 

Then there is the fact as you are growing 

Others dont want to be in your shadow 

Oak trees to dandelions

Precocious perspective

Jealousy and for most people it is synonymous with

But is it so

For me jealousy is pettiness and your feeble projection of the world

Whereas envy is at the first the notice of other which can devolve into petty jealousy

Jealousy is for the weak minded or spirited and you will regularly meet or hear from people with this disease when you are a searcher of truth and a person 

who desires more and possibly for 

perfectionists also but please note perfectionism is a complex subject for another day

Especially in this month the month of resolutions and proposed new beginnings we see the open emergence of jealousy and envy

Where as one is immediately damaging the other has a great potential when harnessed

I have never been a jealous person begrudging others success or good fortune even when I might be the opposite 

But i have been envious

For me envy is noticing the object before the subject

For example a jealous person would possibly focus and direct their petty and low vibrational energy at a person they believe are winning in life 

But envy would focus on the aspect which is the object 

The winning in life or a holiday

Instead of being interested in being the person who is really irrelevant to your growth but can be the beacon or a lighthouse to your goals

But one focuses on ignoring and brushing over your failings 

And one can be used to address them 

For example

So you haven't been on holiday for awhile 

And someone else has 

Enviously you want what they have 

So why not go and get it 

But you have to address why you don't have what you could see 

Also to be jealous and judging someone without a window into there life is misguided 

Do you want to go through what they have

If you are jealous you know the answer 

Real eyes to realise

Real eyes part 1

With the festive period 

Bringing people together and also coming to a close

We are put in to a close proximity with others

The other 

The us directly or the us if certain choices were made differently

But it also puts our face to the glass 

The tape measure to the triple jump

It is the time of year to easily see gains and losses

But it is also a time where you can begin to realise

There are things in life that we make it others make taboo

Or we just overlook them

But as a lover of knowledge 

In a sea of people who aren't can create 

Static 

You may lose respect for people who are jealous of your growth or you may notice the overlooked things that they do

We all know when climbing a mountain the people we start with may not be the people we end up with

Feliz ano novo

A new year

A return to the norm for many 

Or a time of rewinding clocks

Remembering and trying to avoid the realisation that you cannot step into the same river twice

A new year which is begun internationally 

Like any other year has a bit of irony to it

Fireworks

Countdowns 

And the inebriated 

But outside of the same year different numerical addings 

Wonder is what I always assign to this reassemble phase we are annually forced to endure

I wonder outside of the old and that which will be maintained 

What actual new stuff will be gained

Will this time 

Cough next year Cough

be visually identical to this or the previous intervals 

Will we get developments that immediately strike you of change 

Also when will the Feliz or the happy disappear to just new year and then

until it's inevitably just year 

But aside from other people where will you or I be

The cogs in the machine 

The vessels for dream be or what will we achieve