Funny for What is Remembering

Remembering is the hardest. I go to school, only to remember everything. Remember the integral laws, trigonometric functions, grammar usage, proper punctuation, thermodynamic flow.

Yes that's what it seems we have evolved to, a remembering society. It seems that's what we do best, but mark my words, we take if for granted.

Remembering formulas and adjectives is one thing, but I implore you to remember these formulas and adjective were remembered by the select few a thousand years ago. Now it's hard to find a person who doesn't remember, though that statement in and of itself is ignominious I guess because one can claim more people are stupid then they are smart, and therefore remember less.

However I ask what is all the remembering for, in this day and age do we remember more of the "I hope I did my homework," or "I hope I don't forget about Bob." For it's the people remembrance in which we lack today.

When I get up in the morning I must remember to go to class, it is not till maybe the last hour of the day that I get a chance to remember my friends and family. So I ask what right do all these formulas and adjectives have to invade my remembering for the entire day? Why does my mind devote little to those which I could not stand to loose, yet rather it is filled with e=mc^2 and the like?

Is it a selfish act that I carry out everyday? To go to class, to do homework, to read books (not that I actually read those textbooks) only for my own provocation.

My belief is that we are, selfish. To think about only ourselves for everyday of every year. Sure there are those few who build houses for the less fortunate, those who clean beaches, and help poor Africans. But I ask to what degree do they carry out those acts for the benefit of others? I would bet my right leg that there is more of a benefit to that person carrying out the act then there is to the one receiving it.

So get up the next morning, or take the next hour, not to think about if you should carry the two or put a comma in between those two words, but to think about all those who you know-not in that moment of time. Take that moment to think about your friends, family, and the poor people in Africa (and rightly around the world).

For one day you will take your thoughts and turn them into reality...and if you are true to them you will die trying. Formulas and adjectives will win you awards, thoughts will earn you a lifetime of understanding.