so just now, sitting here wanting to blog, I remembered an activity that my 8th grade history teacher had her classes do. (at least, I think it was my history teacher)

So she had us do this activity, where we draw this web. Webs are this organizational method, whereby starting from a single topic in the middle, you draw branches off of this, which are each thoughts, etc. You continue branching off and off by category, until ultimately your thoughts are all nicely visually organized in a web. I’ve never been a big fan. But of course, this doesn’t matter for this blog’s purpose.
What she had us do was define ourselves. It just now strikes me as odd. Is it really fair to take a conglomeration of labels, which are clearly tied to stereotypes to define ourselves? If I say I’m Chinese, an ex-Boy Scout who never made Eagle, played a trombone, and am too preoccupied with video games, you’d take all those stereotypes to generate an idea of my personality. It just seems as if that was too shallow, there’d always be so much more defining me. Maybe I wet my pants until I was 14. Maybe I pulled an infant from a pond full of snapping turtles. Maybe I cut myself. Maybe my parents beat me. Maybe I study four hours everyday after class before going over to a friend’s house to hang out and play games. Maybe I’m on a federal protection list.
I’m getting carried away making up stuff, so I’ll cut to the chase. I’m not sure where I was going with any of this, and to be truthful, I should answer either “yes, this was a good activity” or “no, this was a bad activity.” However, to be truthful, I’m frankly, not interested in answering that question. I just wanted to write some stuff. So maybe you can think about it. Or not, which I’d probably advise. There are better things to spend your time on. Natural disasters, for instance. The nastiest storm off the Atlantic ever is supposed to be rolling in on the east coast of the United States. yeehaw