Welcome to your first journal entry! Each entry is worth 20 pts. You need to read the question carefully and respond thoughtfully. Obviously, the longer and more thought-filled your entry is, the better your grade will be. (If you wish to comment on what a previous poster has said, please remember to be respectful! Also, if you choose to do so, also remember that the majority of the post should primarily be on your own topic.)
So here you go: Imagine a problem that you are facing currently (it could be a personal problem; it could be one the country or world is facing). Now, imagine, like Rip, that you could go to sleep to avoid it. How long would you need to sleep to avoid this problem? What would your life be like when you awoke? Would it have been worth it? Those are the questions you need to answer/explain in your entry. Have fun!!!!
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To avoid a current problem, it would only take one year. In one year of sleep i don't think there woudl be a great lot of change. While there may be some, i think there will proably only be subtle changes in polotics and electronics. In one year i would proably need to make up some classes, find a new job, and pay for more expensive gas.
I would have to say that no matter how long anyone may sleep to avoid any problem they will always wake up to a new one. Rip was able to avoid his controling wife but at what cost? He missed seeing all of his kids grow up. He even missed his daughters marriage and the birth of his grandchild. On top of that everyone forgot about him. He seemed to have almost "worked" to make himself known to everyone. I think that avoiding a problem will not slove anything and will probably only make matters worse. Your absence would probably have the biggest affect on the people around you: your friends and family. I don't know about you but I don't think I would want to miss the life changing events in the lives of the people closest to me just to avoid a problem no matter how big it is. Besides, the problems you face make you a stronger person and ultimately who you are.
I guess there are a number of things I would choose to avoid if I had the option, but I know in the end it wouldn't be worth it. If I picked the problem that is bugging me the most currently, it would still be here for the next couple of years. As much as I would like to escape it, I probably will never have that option. I would have to sleep for approximatly two or so years, but I would I think I would miss two important years of my life. I would wake up, and it would be an different world, but the problem would still remain in my mind, until I delt with it. I would have so much that I would need to catch up on, school, family, friends, and current events. Just like everyone else, I would like my problems to just disappear, but sleeping wouldn't be the easiest way to go about things. I think that Rip would have realized that by confronting the problem, things would have really went away. By sleeping sure he got away from his wife, but twenty years later he woke up, and was basically a no one. So, I guess whether we want to confront things, it is just the way to go in the end.
One of my biggest problems right now is my busy schedule. If i took a month long nap I probably wouldn't have to worry about my job anymore, and The deadline to apply for most of the honor orchestas would be past, but I would also lose credit for my classes, not have any money and have missed out on hanging out with my friends. I also would then have to find a new job and most likely take summer school which would leave me busier than I was in the first place. The longer I slept the more busy I would probably be when I woke up.
I think taking a "nap" would be avoiding a problem that maybe God wants you to grow from. I might want to be rid of my difficult problem, but I would probably wake up to some other problem and maybe even something worse then before just because of my absence. Also, you might be running away from something that could allow you to help someone else, or maybe you would miss so much that you wish you had not missed during your absence. I think if a person was to make himself absent from a problem he has just because he can not handle it, shows how hard it is for everyone to face problems and fears in life. Everyone has them though, so we can not just satisfy ourselves with running from them, because in the end, a persons decision could make a large impact on everyone.
If at all possible, I would avoid sleeping for an inordinate amount of time, as all the problems I have involve school and the like, and thus would need me there for them to go away. If school and college could magically finish themselves for me, I suppose I would sleep through the better part of that time- something like 10 years. But even then I would be missing the most fun parts of life (in my opinion). With that in mind, I would choose to sleep until about an hour from now, so that I could then go to work without the thought of preparing for it weigh on my mind so heavily.
I dont think I would want to sleep that long to avoid a problem. Even When you do have a problem or are going through a hard time, theres ussually something good that comes along with it. In my opinion, I would rather work through the roblems so I dont miss the good things that would happen. I think everything happens for a reason so I wouldnt mess with it. If it isnt a problem that I should be having then I wouldnt be having it. Without problems and hard times life would get boring. Everyone needs to be challenged in one way or another so why avoid it?
There are many problems that people face today that they would just like to "sleep away." Even though there are many problems that I deal with personally, I would rather face them and solve them myself, than to sleep it off and have everything different. I would not want to risk the life i have going right now in order to ignore some stupid problem, that i could solve myself and grow stronger from it. If in the situation where I woke up many years later, I would miss some of the most important and fun years of my life: high school, graduation, even my possible wedding. I would not want to risk those things, and the relationships I have with my friends and family.
To avoid my problem, I would probably have to sleep approximately one year. When I awoke, I would be one year behind in school, fun memories, possible friends, great experiences, and I would have a beard. I would probably wake up in a hospital because no matter where I slept, my parents would find me, and they would most likely be attempting to wake me up in some way, shape, or form. My parents would attack me, because they won't leave me alone if I leave for anytime longer than a month. To tell you the truth, I don't believe that anything would be worth being away from the world for an extended period of time. The events in the news would possibly worse than they are now, but the advances in technology would be cool to see. So, 1 year, chaotic, and no.
As one can probably see I am a normal sixteen year old kid with absolutely no problems facing me in life. Okay seriosly, my problems are almost endless. My original thought was that i would like to sleep through work so i could spend more time doing what I wanted to do. Then i realized the problem with that answer, if i sleep through work i will have the same amount of time on my hands as if I were to have gone to work. that idea is out. Hey heres an idea how about sleeping through high gas prices. I bet i am the first one to think about that. Seriously, gas is a pretty big deal with me when you take into account that if you average my mpg it comes out to 11.75. in all four vehicles. When i add them I get 47. The biggest problem with trying to out sleep high gas prices is that we don't when they will go down or if they will. i think once we figure out alternative sources of fuel then it will help to lower prices of fuel at the pump because it will be solely vehicles running on gasoline or diesel. my thoughts would be that i would need to sleep for about 10 years. i dont think that gas prices will drop just that in 10 years our salarys will be to a point that would offset the prices of gas. There is no way i would want to sleep that long. if I were to sleep that long then I would miss the progress our country made on it's way to the alternative energy sources so that would make it extremely unworth it to sleep that long and miss a monumental change in our country. my life wouldnt even be worth it when i woke up because i would not attend school or college to get a degree to make the money to buy the gas at a rate that would make it easier to afford the gas. and in 10 years i will be driving a different vehicle anyway. this just wouldnt work out now would it?
I could think of a million different things that I would love to avoid. But I would never want to skip them. Doing things that I hate or that I think are boring has made me a more tolerant and patient person. Also, I already think that time goes by way too fast and that high school is just flying by. So I would never want to give up time that I could be using to make more memories or to make my life more enjoyable. It would not be worth skipping a few unenjoyable tasks to miss out on living life. Plus, I would hate trying to catch up with everything that had gone on in the world while I was sleeping.
I would have to sleep for eight weeks at least, otherwise it'd be the rest of my life. My life would be no different at least, but mostly likely, it would be worse. Instead of facing my problem and learning how to handle it, I would have avoided it for the time, but it would happen upon me again later. Then, I would have no idea as to how to handle it. And if the problem got bigger, then I'd be even worse off than before because I never learned how to handle the smaller portion of it. Keeping this in mind, I don't think it would have been worth it to sleep for that long. And besides, if I sleep for that long, think of all the things I'd miss out on during my "nap" that don't have to deal with that problem! I think it would be better to simple face the problem head-on, work it out, and enjoy everything else that goes on in life. -(^.^)-
This reminds me of the movie "Click" when Adam Sandler uses his remote to fast forward his life through times of stress and annoyance. At first everything is perfect for him, until the remote sticks in fast forward and only stops at moments in his life that aren't stressful. It was a real eye-opener because it showed how each and every one of us would like to just fast forward through our problems, but how much we'd actually miss out on if we did so. I've learned that problems never go away by avoiding them, sometimes they can actually be come worse. So my first choice would definitely be to face my problem right away and rationally, relieving that stress and anxiety from my life, then being able to go and "sleep" in peace. :)
Everyone has problems that they would like to avoid or cast aside. If people were given the option to sleep through their problems, everyone would be sleeping and nothing would get done. If I tried to sleep out all my problems, I would spend a lot of time asleep. I would inevitably wake up to more problems, even if the past one was over. Life would be different when you woke up, but you would still have to face life’s complications like everyone else. It’s easier to confront your problems and deal with them directly. It would not be worth it to sleep as means of avoiding a dilemma. You would miss out on a lot of good things trying to avoid one bad thing. Problems are a part of life that everyone has to deal with.
I have countless problems, including difficult homework, a tiring after school job, and having to pay for expensive gas! It would be nice to not have to deal with any of it and just sleep through the next nine months of school, however my whole life I will have to put up with issue after issue like working and being stressed out. Besides, if I were to sleep through nine whole months, I would miss out on spending time with my family and friends. Good times always outweigh bad times.
Well it seems to me that I am one of the only people left to post my comment, but I am perfectly fine with that! I don't think that I would want to sleep through anything, especially for twenty years. Losing the most important years of my life would not be worth the easy way out of sleeping through my problems. I personally believe that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. We as a society learn from our mistakes and that is what makes life fun and interesting. I think that if people could just sleep away their problems, there would be a lot of sleeping people and very few walking our halls. Friends, family, and sports are definately not worth giving up to pass over a small problem. The things that make life special for me are what I can count on when I'm going through a hard time. I'd much rather lean on my support than sleep off my problems. We spend too much time out of our lives sleeping anyway! Live life to the fullest!
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