certain not-so-truths
Feb. 14th, 2002 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fictionali was just thinking how much i hate the fact that when you're young people tell you certain things that they say are true. without any exceptions. and usually you believe them, because you're young, and they sound so definite, and why would they lie anyway? especially for what seems like no reason at all.
for example, like the way they tell you in math class that you cannot, under no circumstances divide by zero. in fact if you're solving a problem, and it turns out that you're dividing by zero, you're supposed to know that you got the damn thing completely wrong. and then you get older, and if you're real lucky, you end up in calculus...where it turns out that the whole damn class is just about what happens when you divide by zero. what the hell? couldn't they just have told you that it was a special circumstance, and that you'd learn about it later? do they really think we're that dumb? not to mention how much harder it is to adjust your thinking later in life.
what brought this on? i was thinking about orange juice, and fruits, and how they're supposed to be all good for you and stuff. and how betrayed i felt when i found out that they are both fattening, and not always healthy. in fact if i've got a hangover OJ always makes me puke.
it just seems unfair. how come no one told me?
for example, like the way they tell you in math class that you cannot, under no circumstances divide by zero. in fact if you're solving a problem, and it turns out that you're dividing by zero, you're supposed to know that you got the damn thing completely wrong. and then you get older, and if you're real lucky, you end up in calculus...where it turns out that the whole damn class is just about what happens when you divide by zero. what the hell? couldn't they just have told you that it was a special circumstance, and that you'd learn about it later? do they really think we're that dumb? not to mention how much harder it is to adjust your thinking later in life.
what brought this on? i was thinking about orange juice, and fruits, and how they're supposed to be all good for you and stuff. and how betrayed i felt when i found out that they are both fattening, and not always healthy. in fact if i've got a hangover OJ always makes me puke.
it just seems unfair. how come no one told me?
