Being one with yourself

Charles Simic writes about how to stop and find a quiet place to think in his essay, A Reunion with Boredom. He says that we have let technology take away our deep thoughts, not only about life but of ourselves. We are distracted by the technology we have today. Just right this second you are probably reading my blog while checking a text message you friend sent you. As you can see technology is around us 24/7. Being deep I thought has come in handy to people who have created big things to sky scrapers, to monuments, to miles and miles long bridges. For Charles Simic, as he sits in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene he comes in to deep thought. Thoughts about how much we depend on technology to update us about the rest of the world. In his essay he says, " I forgot who said one is bored only in paradise and not in hell". To me he says that we are taking advantage of our wonderful world by having our eyes glued to our five to ten inch phone screens. Being in deep thought can

 

means that we can think for ourselves. We don`t need to have someone else tell us who we can or can not be. To pull this all into my topic of cyber bullying, we don`t have to be afraid of being ourselves. If people don`t like the way you are then they aren`t worth your time. If they tell you, you need to be more like them, turn around walk away slowly and say "I AM MY OWN UNIQUE PERSON!", because you are your own unique person. Deep thought has not only disappeared but we are hiding it. In middle school, I use to get picked on all the time, and I was afraid to show my face at school. I couldn`t even handle it when my parents asked if I was alright. Before I used to just sing myself to sleep to get me to close my eyes and go into deep thought about my life, in dreams. Every one has there own way of trying to get themselves into deep thought, wether it is being alone or doing what you love. Simic keeps a very good point in his essay, and it is; " We should never take advantage of what we have because, soon it will all be gone".