Imagine that you are now thirty years old. You have spent the last 15 years, beginning from this day, asleep, thus you have "fast forwarded" to the year 2024. How would this time change affect you? Would you be happy to skip those years? Why?
To start off this lively discussion, i believe that just as time has just (fast forwarded) living immediately afterwards would seem to be "paused". It would seem almost unfarmiliar to me to be living again, in this new day and age, whether or not i was actually "sleeping" as rip was. Things would be so incredibly different that the adjustion process would take far too long to enjoy my new life. And before i would know it, things would change again. So in the sense that the unfamilarity of the "better time" would be overwhelming, i believe that fastforwarding is not a good idea. In the sense that i may have skipped an unpleasant time in my life, i may believe that it was for the better. But in pondering this concept, i have come to the conclusion that it would only serve as a disadvantage to simply "skip" the rough patches. As everyone knows (especially those in school who have had this pounded into his or her head when times get tough) that you have to suffer through the stress to fully love the benefits. So for example, say one of my siblings dies (god forbid of course..yea yheah) and i wish to fast forward through the grieving. Ultimately i only put it off longer. But say i choose to fast forward to when i am "over it" in the sense that i wasn't "asleep";i miss a crucial time in my life that i could later learn that it defined who i turn out to be. If anyone understood this, you are amazing, and if not please dont think this is what our presentation is like..
I would not like to skip 15 years of my life. This is the best part of life, childhood. There are many other downsides to skipping parts of life too, though. You would be totally behind in a technological sense and in a cultural sense. Who knows what the world will be like in 15 years? Rip missed the Revolutionary war. If we skipped 15 years, we might miss another world changing event, like a third world war, or just a radical change in world power. Back to my original point about missing the best parts in life, if anyone has seen the movie 13 Going On 30, they would know that it is bad to skip portions of your life. It is a slightly different situation because the main character lives her dream life while she is sort of "unconscious". She skips her life until she is 30, but everyone around her still interact with her. It was more like blacking out while her she is leading her life and just waking up at 30 and not remembering it than falling asleep for 15 years and missing life like Rip. If I were to disappear for 15 years, it would be awful. My family would have no idea where I went, and when I got back, I would be completely lost and unprepared. Losing 15 years of my life would be awful.
If I fast forwarded through fifteen years from today and awoke to see the new world, it would feel like a dream to me. I think that even blasting through a year would feel extremely different because our world is constantly changing. In fifteen years, there will be extraordinary technological improvements that would seem out of this world to me. I am assuming that these improvements will make our lives easier, and therefore I feel that it would take a very long time to adjust because we are used to operating the way we do today. I would try to resort to doing things the way we do now, which would make me seem like an outsider. Along with realizing these changes, fast forwarding fifteen years would really make me see how far the human race has come. I also would see how we have developed into an extremely intelligent race from the technological advances. I know that I would definitely not be happy to skip those years because I would be missing out on a large period of time of my life. I don't know about the rest of you, but I would not want to make my life shorter. Since I would be missing my 20's, I would furthermore be missing the "younger" part of my life. There would be a negative affect to a person if they missed out on being young, because you carry what you learn when you're young with you as you get older. If you are unable to learn lessons and make mistakes most people make when they're young, you would be a very naive adult. It is essential for us to go through the different stages of life. Overall, I believe that fast forwarding fifteen years would be an unbelievable experience, however I would not want it to happen to me.
I would hate to miss 15 years of my life. That would be like missing half of my childhood. I think you shouldn't rush life. I think that you should live life in the present not in the future and like Michael said if we missed 15 years of our life many things could change in our world like wars, or new technologic advancements. If I was unconscious or asleep for the next 15 years I would feel like I wouldn't belong in this world and I would not understand how things changed so fast. And how Kristen said it would take me a long time to adjust to the new ways of living that when i finally get settled, it would change again. I also think that fast forwarding in life would be a disadvantage because when you are growing up and becoming more mature, at times you can make mistakes in your life and if you fast forward through your mistakes you won't learn from them. Also people tell me that life seems to go by faster when you grow up and if life goes by faster and you skip 15 years then you will feel like you are still a child. Others say that your 20's are some of the best years of your life because you become more independent by learning how to live on your own and learning how to support yourself. If you miss those years you will still be very dependent on your parents and families. This is why I believe it will be horrible if I were to miss 15 years of my life.
I would never want to miss 15 years of my life. a few years ago i heard a story on the news about a lady who woke up from a 5 year comma (or something like that...it was pretty long. it was so scary to think that the lady had missed 5 whole years of her life! a lot can happen in just 5 years, let alone 15. if i missed 15 years of my life i would feel out of place when i woke up. i would not have lived through the same experiences as those around me would have, so i would not have the same sort of connections and relationships. for example, if there was another world war while i was asleep, when i woke up i would not be able to bond with my peers over the agonies of that time. also, if i missed the next 15 years of my life, i would skip the end of high school, all of college, and all of my 20s, years that adults claim to be the most exciting years. i would never want to miss out on any of that. i wouldn't even want to miss out on the bad things in life, as Kristen brought up. although many experiences in life are devastating, i think i would still like to live through them. for one reason they would make me a stronger person. for another reason, if one did not experience tragedies one has not really lived the human experience. sadness, and learning to deal with that sadness, gives depth and importance to life. if i skipped over a tragedy while asleep i would feel phony, like i somehow took a short-cut. in conclusion there is so much i want to do that i would hate to lose 15 years of my life.
I agree with the general consensus that it would be a huge disadvantage to miss the next 15 years of my life. I feel that life is so short already, there are so many moments we'll forget involuntarily and we sleep a third of our lives as is, that to sleep through 15 years would be laughing at life. Yes, the next 15 years of anyone's life will bring many hardships, but who would anybody be if there were no hardships? I think my personality, my future actions and my beliefs would all be negatively affected by this 15 year hiatus. My mindset would be that of a 16 year old, ill-equipped for the life of a 31 year old. I'd be missing huge historical changes throughout the world which I would have wanted to be a part of or witness, and the people I surrounded myself with now would be totally different. No one would be able to relate to my experience, and I’m sure I’d feel alone for many years to come, as it’s not easy to just make up the last 15 years. I agree with Jamie in that it would be an unbelievable experience to fast forward the next 15 years, but that it's best left as a scenario in literature such as Rip Van Winckle, not for real experience. It’s such an interesting idea because it’s easier for someone to observe the changes in their world when they’re abrupt, not drawn out over time. When we’re 30 we won’t be shocked of all the changes in the same way we would be if we’d slept the last 15 years. In the story it highlights all of the differences of the world after just 15 short "earth" years, but to me it would only highlight the long length of time I'd miss considering life compared to earth processes is very short. Life is everything we’ve ever known, and to take that away in a taunting matter only to change our world completely is something I would not want to undergo.
I think that “sleeping” through 15 years of my life would have mostly negative, but some positive effects. Having been taken out of one period of life and thrust into another, I would gain a greater appreciation for the previous 15 years and better realize the significance of each year missed. Little things that we all take for granted would suddenly be noteworthy. With that said many of the results would be unfavorable. I would miss out on the exiting years of late teen to early adulthood. There are so many milestones in one’s life in those fifteen years. Think of all the events you could happen to miss: your license, graduation, or even marriage, to name a few. You would skip years of adjustment and all of a sudden jump from the middle of high school into a career. Also, as in Rip Van Winkle, society can change a lot in the span of 15 years. Whether war or a change of government and leaders occur, like in the short story, or there are small changes in ever-day life, adjusting to these alterations would be difficult. It would be challenging to step right back into a society that had advanced while you were “asleep.” Even though there are benefits from “sleeping” for 15 years, I believe missing years of my life would be tough to manage and ultimately detrimental.
I would definitely not want to miss 15 years of my life. As Emily stated, life is already short and to take 15 years away would be horrible. If you were to sleep through 15 years of your life, and awaken in 2024, you would not be able to function. Who knows how much the world will have changed in 15 years. The technological advances alone would be so overwhelming, that I don't know how anyone would be able to handle it. Let alone the fact that there would be so many historical changes that could occur in 15 years, you would be totally out of touch with reality. You really would feel like you were in a dream. Everything and everyone that you once knew would have changed so drastically. You would no longer be close with your friends or family. They all would have changed so much. Not to mention the fact that you may have lost people that were very close to you while you were asleep. A parent/guardian for example. They would be the people that you would have been close to and to suddenly wake up 15 years later and find them gone, I can't imagine what that would be like. Also the fact that I would have completely missed my own High School Graduation, as well as all my years of college would be devastating to me. These are supposed to be the best years of our lives. They are supposed to be character building and help prepare us for the rest of out lives.If I were to wake up 15 years later, I would essentially be a 16 year old in a 31 year old's body. Nothing would have changed for me. I would still be at the maturity level of a 16 year old. I would not have gained any experience or wisdom to help me out in life. I would not have learned how to live independently and support myself. If I were to wake up 15 years from today, I don't know what I would do. Sorry for rambling. I apologize for putting anyone to sleep. But in conclusion. I would not want to skip over 15 years of my life.
Sorry for posting this a day late, I was under the impression that we were suppossed to post to the blog the night after the discussions. Apparently not. Anyway, i would not want to skip 15 years of my life. People don't have much time to live, so wasting any of that precious time is stupid. Also, the teens and the twenties are really one's better years, when we are still able to enjoy ourselves and we have already become able to live independently. After this, one is saddled by family and career and enjoyment is no longer an option. By the time we are finally able to escape these two major burdens, we are old and unable to enjoy life. So sleeping from the time one is 15 or 16 to when you are 30 would be like fastforwarding through a TV show so that one can watch the commercials. This is the case not just for the teenage and twenty years, but for all of life, because just as youth is more enjoyable than adulthood, so to is adulthood better than old age, and childhood is better than youth. You know what they say: "It's all downhill from here". It is better to ease oneself slowly down this metaphorical hill to death than it is to simply leap over a section of it.
I agree with the general opinion that missing fifteen years of my life would be a dreadful occurrence. The adjustments I would need to made and certain things to catch up on would be unbelievable. Not only would I miss out on individual happenings but also many joyous occurrences with family and friends. Time is so precious in life and to even miss one thing on specific day is upsetting for most people, so you can only imagine what skipping fifteen years of your life must be like. Besides the positive things you would miss, negative experiences are just as important to live out. Missing deaths in the family or not being able to go through rough times with friends are just some of the many things you wouldn't be able to learn from. In order to truly succeed, one must make mistakes, therefore missing those upsetting occurrences would actually have a negative impact on you. This leads into me agreeing with Michael in that childhood concerns the most important years in our life. Missing out on childhood is like not being able to test out a car before you purchase it. You have no idea what your are getting yourself into just like you wouldn't know how to handle upcoming situations.
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To start off this lively discussion, i believe that just as time has just (fast forwarded) living immediately afterwards would seem to be "paused". It would seem almost unfarmiliar to me to be living again, in this new day and age, whether or not i was actually "sleeping" as rip was. Things would be so incredibly different that the adjustion process would take far too long to enjoy my new life. And before i would know it, things would change again. So in the sense that the unfamilarity of the "better time" would be overwhelming, i believe that fastforwarding is not a good idea. In the sense that i may have skipped an unpleasant time in my life, i may believe that it was for the better. But in pondering this concept, i have come to the conclusion that it would only serve as a disadvantage to simply "skip" the rough patches. As everyone knows (especially those in school who have had this pounded into his or her head when times get tough) that you have to suffer through the stress to fully love the benefits. So for example, say one of my siblings dies (god forbid of course..yea yheah) and i wish to fast forward through the grieving. Ultimately i only put it off longer. But say i choose to fast forward to when i am "over it" in the sense that i wasn't "asleep";i miss a crucial time in my life that i could later learn that it defined who i turn out to be. If anyone understood this, you are amazing, and if not please dont think this is what our presentation is like..
I would not like to skip 15 years of my life. This is the best part of life, childhood.
There are many other downsides to skipping parts of life too, though. You would be totally behind in a technological sense and in a cultural sense. Who knows what the world will be like in 15 years? Rip missed the Revolutionary war. If we skipped 15 years, we might miss another world changing event, like a third world war, or just a radical change in world power.
Back to my original point about missing the best parts in life, if anyone has seen the movie 13 Going On 30, they would know that it is bad to skip portions of your life. It is a slightly different situation because the main character lives her dream life while she is sort of "unconscious". She skips her life until she is 30, but everyone around her still interact with her. It was more like blacking out while her she is leading her life and just waking up at 30 and not remembering it than falling asleep for 15 years and missing life like Rip. If I were to disappear for 15 years, it would be awful. My family would have no idea where I went, and when I got back, I would be completely lost and unprepared.
Losing 15 years of my life would be awful.
If I fast forwarded through fifteen years from today and awoke to see the new world, it would feel like a dream to me. I think that even blasting through a year would feel extremely different because our world is constantly changing. In fifteen years, there will be extraordinary technological improvements that would seem out of this world to me. I am assuming that these improvements will make our lives easier, and therefore I feel that it would take a very long time to adjust because we are used to operating the way we do today. I would try to resort to doing things the way we do now, which would make me seem like an outsider. Along with realizing these changes, fast forwarding fifteen years would really make me see how far the human race has come. I also would see how we have developed into an extremely intelligent race from the technological advances. I know that I would definitely not be happy to skip those years because I would be missing out on a large period of time of my life. I don't know about the rest of you, but I would not want to make my life shorter. Since I would be missing my 20's, I would furthermore be missing the "younger" part of my life. There would be a negative affect to a person if they missed out on being young, because you carry what you learn when you're young with you as you get older. If you are unable to learn lessons and make mistakes most people make when they're young, you would be a very naive adult. It is essential for us to go through the different stages of life. Overall, I believe that fast forwarding fifteen years would be an unbelievable experience, however I would not want it to happen to me.
I would hate to miss 15 years of my life. That would be like missing half of my childhood. I think you shouldn't rush life. I think that you should live life in the present not in the future and like Michael said if we missed 15 years of our life many things could change in our world like wars, or new technologic advancements. If I was unconscious or asleep for the next 15 years I would feel like I wouldn't belong in this world and I would not understand how things changed so fast. And how Kristen said it would take me a long time to adjust to the new ways of living that when i finally get settled, it would change again. I also think that fast forwarding in life would be a disadvantage because when you are growing up and becoming more mature, at times you can make mistakes in your life and if you fast forward through your mistakes you won't learn from them. Also people tell me that life seems to go by faster when you grow up and if life goes by faster and you skip 15 years then you will feel like you are still a child. Others say that your 20's are some of the best years of your life because you become more independent by learning how to live on your own and learning how to support yourself. If you miss those years you will still be very dependent on your parents and families. This is why I believe it will be horrible if I were to miss 15 years of my life.
I would never want to miss 15 years of my life. a few years ago i heard a story on the news about a lady who woke up from a 5 year comma (or something like that...it was pretty long. it was so scary to think that the lady had missed 5 whole years of her life! a lot can happen in just 5 years, let alone 15. if i missed 15 years of my life i would feel out of place when i woke up. i would not have lived through the same experiences as those around me would have, so i would not have the same sort of connections and relationships. for example, if there was another world war while i was asleep, when i woke up i would not be able to bond with my peers over the agonies of that time. also, if i missed the next 15 years of my life, i would skip the end of high school, all of college, and all of my 20s, years that adults claim to be the most exciting years. i would never want to miss out on any of that. i wouldn't even want to miss out on the bad things in life, as Kristen brought up. although many experiences in life are devastating, i think i would still like to live through them. for one reason they would make me a stronger person. for another reason, if one did not experience tragedies one has not really lived the human experience. sadness, and learning to deal with that sadness, gives depth and importance to life. if i skipped over a tragedy while asleep i would feel phony, like i somehow took a short-cut. in conclusion there is so much i want to do that i would hate to lose 15 years of my life.
I agree with the general consensus that it would be a huge disadvantage to miss the next 15 years of my life.
I feel that life is so short already, there are so many moments we'll forget involuntarily and we sleep a third of our lives as is, that to sleep through 15 years would be laughing at life. Yes, the next 15 years of anyone's life will bring many hardships, but who would anybody be if there were no hardships? I think my personality, my future actions and my beliefs would all be negatively affected by this 15 year hiatus. My mindset would be that of a 16 year old, ill-equipped for the life of a 31 year old. I'd be missing huge historical changes throughout the world which I would have wanted to be a part of or witness, and the people I surrounded myself with now would be totally different. No one would be able to relate to my experience, and I’m sure I’d feel alone for many years to come, as it’s not easy to just make up the last 15 years.
I agree with Jamie in that it would be an unbelievable experience to fast forward the next 15 years, but that it's best left as a scenario in literature such as Rip Van Winckle, not for real experience. It’s such an interesting idea because it’s easier for someone to observe the changes in their world when they’re abrupt, not drawn out over time. When we’re 30 we won’t be shocked of all the changes in the same way we would be if we’d slept the last 15 years. In the story it highlights all of the differences of the world after just 15 short "earth" years, but to me it would only highlight the long length of time I'd miss considering life compared to earth processes is very short. Life is everything we’ve ever known, and to take that away in a taunting matter only to change our world completely is something I would not want to undergo.
I think that “sleeping” through 15 years of my life would have mostly negative, but some positive effects. Having been taken out of one period of life and thrust into another, I would gain a greater appreciation for the previous 15 years and better realize the significance of each year missed. Little things that we all take for granted would suddenly be noteworthy. With that said many of the results would be unfavorable. I would miss out on the exiting years of late teen to early adulthood. There are so many milestones in one’s life in those fifteen years. Think of all the events you could happen to miss: your license, graduation, or even marriage, to name a few. You would skip years of adjustment and all of a sudden jump from the middle of high school into a career. Also, as in Rip Van Winkle, society can change a lot in the span of 15 years. Whether war or a change of government and leaders occur, like in the short story, or there are small changes in ever-day life, adjusting to these alterations would be difficult. It would be challenging to step right back into a society that had advanced while you were “asleep.” Even though there are benefits from “sleeping” for 15 years, I believe missing years of my life would be tough to manage and ultimately detrimental.
I would definitely not want to miss 15 years of my life. As Emily stated, life is already short and to take 15 years away would be horrible. If you were to sleep through 15 years of your life, and awaken in 2024, you would not be able to function. Who knows how much the world will have changed in 15 years. The technological advances alone would be so overwhelming, that I don't know how anyone would be able to handle it. Let alone the fact that there would be so many historical changes that could occur in 15 years, you would be totally out of touch with reality. You really would feel like you were in a dream. Everything and everyone that you once knew would have changed so drastically. You would no longer be close with your friends or family. They all would have changed so much. Not to mention the fact that you may have lost people that were very close to you while you were asleep. A parent/guardian for example. They would be the people that you would have been close to and to suddenly wake up 15 years later and find them gone, I can't imagine what that would be like.
Also the fact that I would have completely missed my own High School Graduation, as well as all my years of college would be devastating to me. These are supposed to be the best years of our lives. They are supposed to be character building and help prepare us for the rest of out lives.If I were to wake up 15 years later, I would essentially be a 16 year old in a 31 year old's body. Nothing would have changed for me. I would still be at the maturity level of a 16 year old. I would not have gained any experience or wisdom to help me out in life. I would not have learned how to live independently and support myself. If I were to wake up 15 years from today, I don't know what I would do. Sorry for rambling. I apologize for putting anyone to sleep. But in conclusion. I would not want to skip over 15 years of my life.
Sorry for posting this a day late, I was under the impression that we were suppossed to post to the blog the night after the discussions. Apparently not. Anyway, i would not want to skip 15 years of my life. People don't have much time to live, so wasting any of that precious time is stupid. Also, the teens and the twenties are really one's better years, when we are still able to enjoy ourselves and we have already become able to live independently. After this, one is saddled by family and career and enjoyment is no longer an option. By the time we are finally able to escape these two major burdens, we are old and unable to enjoy life. So sleeping from the time one is 15 or 16 to when you are 30 would be like fastforwarding through a TV show so that one can watch the commercials. This is the case not just for the teenage and twenty years, but for all of life, because just as youth is more enjoyable than adulthood, so to is adulthood better than old age, and childhood is better than youth. You know what they say: "It's all downhill from here". It is better to ease oneself slowly down this metaphorical hill to death than it is to simply leap over a section of it.
I agree with the general opinion that missing fifteen years of my life would be a dreadful occurrence. The adjustments I would need to made and certain things to catch up on would be unbelievable. Not only would I miss out on individual happenings but also many joyous occurrences with family and friends. Time is so precious in life and to even miss one thing on specific day is upsetting for most people, so you can only imagine what skipping fifteen years of your life must be like. Besides the positive things you would miss, negative experiences are just as important to live out. Missing deaths in the family or not being able to go through rough times with friends are just some of the many things you wouldn't be able to learn from. In order to truly succeed, one must make mistakes, therefore missing those upsetting occurrences would actually have a negative impact on you.
This leads into me agreeing with Michael in that childhood concerns the most important years in our life. Missing out on childhood is like not being able to test out a car before you purchase it. You have no idea what your are getting yourself into just like you wouldn't know how to handle upcoming situations.
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