Thursday, November 20, 2008

So much to learn, so little time.

There are so many things to learn in the world…I sometimes wish that I could stop time and just READ. Here’s a list of all things that fascinate me and I wish I has more time to learn about:

  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Math
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Programming
  • Hacking
  • Networking
  • Animals
  • Jungles
  • Deserts
  • South Asia
  • Scandinavia
  • South America
  • Africa
  • Space
  • Language
  • Cooking
  • Hunting
  • Fishing
  • History
  • Mythology
  • India
  • Political Theory
  • Religions
  • God
  • The universe
  • Life
  • Love
  • Poetry

When I think of the sheer massive amounts of information out there, it is simply overwhelming. I mean, I could pick just one topic that I mentioned and spend the rest of my life learning about that one thing. Take programming for example. You can split that into different languages…like C, C#, C+, C++, Java, Javascript, VB, VBA, VBScript, VB .NET, VB .Net 2005, PHP, PHP4, PHP5, Python, Ruby, Lisp, Perl, SQL, etc etc etc. And that’s JUST A FEW of that languages that exist. Then I could pick just one of those languages and spend a very long time learning and mastering it.

Consider that one little piece of a single topic could take years to learn about, and expand that to cover all the pieces in that topic, and expand that even more to cover all topics…that’s hundreds, if not thousands of years of possible learning…and that’s if there were no new discoveries/developments. I find that exciting and yet depressing at the same time.

I’ve probably been thinking more about this as I think about what I want to do with my life…and the answer that I keep coming up with is EVERYTHING. I want to do everything that I can out of everything that there is. And when I stop to think about what “everything” actually is, it blows me away.

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One Response

  1. Alisha Says:

    I think you should just start and see where it takes you. Explore all of your interests on the surface, to start with. Several things from your list will begin to grasp you, more than the others and you will feel at peace diving deeper into those things. The sheer amt. of info can be overwhelming, but the amt. of hours and days of one lifetime is pretty vast as well.
    I wish you the best on your journey.

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