Thursday, February 12, 2015

[4] About Myself

For this post, I'm just going to talk about me. I feel the need to try and be super insightful, as you may have noticed in the last couple of posts, but that's just not who I am. I feel much more comfortable just writing about who I am.

I'm a 20 year old BYU student who just married the love of his life, crazy animal lover, aspiring wood worker, and an uncle of 22. I love my family and my new little family I've got, they are basically my life. I try to live my life to the fullest, taking one day at a time and trying to not take anything for granted. I'm not the hardest worker in school, because I mainly feel as though it is a waste of my time when I could be elsewhere learning specific tasks for which I am suited. 

My family and my wife are the main reasons I'm where I am at today, and I owe everything I am to them. That's just a little about me.

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

[3] The Power Of Media

At the very start of the semester in my writing class, we were tasked with reading a talk given by Elder David A Bednar, entitled "Things as They Really Are." In this talk, he talks about the dangers of social media, and other virtual worlds such as video games and role playing games. I'm also in a mass communication class and we talk a lot about the effect that social media can have in our lives. I just like to touch base on this principle, that social media and games can take over our whole existence if we choose to permit it.

I myself play video games. I don't spend a lot of time on social media, but I do enjoy sitting down and playing games with my friends. I would say that in our day and age, a large majority of people, especially young men, are guilty of playing games at least occasionally. When it gets to be a problem, as was mentioned in the talk, is when it starts to become our reality and we lose sight of what is really important. There was a story about a man who spent so much time in his "Second Life" video game, that he actually ended up having a virtual affair with a woman who he had never met outside of this game. It goes to show that too much of any sort of media or entertainment can be a bad thing

I like to relate this to many different aspects of life, as this can happen with anything. Gambling, watching TV, getting too worked up over a sports team, etc. These can all be debilitating things that when abused will lead to an unhappy life and a whole slew of other problems. As long as we can keep reminding ourselves of what is real and we can continue to have some perspective, we will be alright.