A lot of times when my youngest brother wants something he makes a point of getting it. It is so annoying yet it always seems to work. Why is that? Why do some people always give in to kids? In my opinion it's all about how the kids react to the situation. They aren't as dumb as people think, they always over exaggerate the situation just enough so that it's believable. Sometimes when I'm trying to get my little brother off of me I push him. Instead of just falling off the couch, he falls off the couch and rolls all the way down the stairs and yells, then I get in trouble. It isn't fun at all. Then I have to try to explain that I barely even touched the kid and a lot of times I don't even get out of punishment. You'd think that a simple solution to the problem would be to just ignore kids when they do things like that, but it's not as easy as you think it is. They go to extremes, whether it's like my brother going further than needed or a baby whining until picked up, they're going to do whatever is necessary to get what they want.

Why is it that people adjust rules for their own convenience?

Everybody has rules in their homes that they do not like at all. In fact if you like every rule that you have in your house there's probably something wrong with you. Since we don't really like these rules, from time to time we adjust them so that we do like them. One of the rules that most teenagers tend to bend is the curfew rule set in their homes. If you happen to walk in the door five minutes after you were supposed to be home and your parents are really strict on that, then you'll be spitting out about every excuse you can come up with to avoid punishment. However, if one of your other siblings happens to walk into the house after you, you want them to get the punishment that they deserve. Why is that? Why is it that people constantly do this type of thing. Once you narrow everything down, you can usually come to the conclusion that it was for a selfish reason. It's in our human nature to get everything we want and if that requires bending the rules to get it, then so be it. It's really sad but it's true. If there weren't any rules then that would be another disaster. If we can just learn to live with the rules that are given to us then life will be a lot better.

Time

Everyday we have 24 hrs. to accomplish all of our daily tasks. Some of those days it feels like it's already been 30 hrs . by noon, and other days you wonder what happened to the day because it went by so fast. Why is this? Why doesn't it feel like the day goes by at a normal pace? It's all about perception. If you're having a really fun day and you never want it to end, it's going to feel like it was gone in five hours. However, if you're having one of those days when you feel like it's never going to end, then you're going to be sitting there watch the seconds go by. That's really depressing though because on the fun days you want the time to feel like it's going by slower so that you can enjoy the activity longer, and you want the slow days to go by speedy quick. Oh well, to bad because that's not the way it works. So if on those slow days we don't want to feel like we're wasting our lives away to nothing, we just have to be optimistic and the time will go by much faster.

Why do we always prepare for the worst?

Almost everyday we are faced with things that we have to do, that we would rather not do. When it comes time to do that thing (take a test specifically,) pretty much all we do is complain. I know personally I try to find excuses not to thinking it will be the most horrible day ever. However, when it comes time to do the task we go in grudgingly and come out saying that it wasn't so bad after all. Why is it that we do that? Why can't we just go in with the attitude that it will turn out all right. I think that the main reason is preparation. A good majority of the time high school students don't always prepare for a test the way that they should so they don't feel very confident. After it's all over they come out feeling like they knew more than they thought they did, and the stress is off their backs. If we can just have a better attitude on life and the things that we are facing we can make life a whole lot stressful.

Why are sports so overrated?

Every day there is some sort of a sports game on. Either baseball, basketball, soccer, hockey and so on and so forth depending on the season. The way some people go on it makes it sound like your eternal salvation is at stake if you don't watch a game. Why is that? What makes people so involved with sports? After thinking for a few minutes the only reason I can come up with is the because of the media. They make it sound like you're a social misfit if you don't watch the world series, the super bowl, or even the NBA finals. In my family it's fun to watch sports from time to time but it's not like we're going to die if we miss one little game. I tend to think it's that way for some people, because at school if they happened to miss one of the NCAA games they go crazy. There is obviously something about watching a ball go in a hoop, or a ball being kicked into a goal that is so exciting. So unless the media stops overrating sports people will continue to make a huge deal out of them.