Cause and effect

                                                 Learning to play acoustic guitar is good for you.

          When I was young and starting to find an interest in playing guitar, My dad told me it was a

good idea because it might help with my Attention disorder. People with add have toubles paying attention to things because they are easily distracted. It is the hardest to pay attention to things that you don't care as much about. I find that it is easy to pay attention to playing guitar just because playing guitar is easy to get into.  As I grew up and continued to play and

learn guitar, I found that it helped me with so much more than that. Because guitar is played with the

hands it helped me with my hand eye coordination and made me more ambidextrous. Also, It gave me callus's on my finger tips, which helped me to be able to pick up hot pizza and not get burned. I also became more socially active. By wanting to show people what I had learned on guitar, I was forced to get out more. And so it begins, I have played for large groups of people a lot and have gained self confidence from that. Growing up I've always heard people say that learning to play guitar is a good way to "pick up chicks" I feel that there is some truth to that. But only because it forces you to be social and more confident. I have also heard that learning to play an instrument helps to increase the amount of grey matter in your brain and help with memory and creativity.  I would have to say that I agree. I could say with absolute certainty that learning to play the acoustic guitar is only beneficial to people in many ways. And for the most part with only a few exceptions, I believe it is never to late to start.

Response to "Why I Blog" by Sullivan.

Response to “Why I blog” by Andrew Sullivan

 

Andrew Sullivan makes a lot of good points in his writing about blogs. I now understand where the term to “Log something” comes from. His definition of the origins of logging things ties into blogging in my opinion because we, just like the mariners, are throwing something out there to look back at and see how far we have come. I enjoyed this reading a little bit. One of my favorite lines was when Sullivan wrote “Blogging requires an embrace of such hazards, a willingness to fall off the trapeze rather than fail to make the leap.” This stuck out to me as a key point. Another key point that Sullivan makes is that “The key to understanding a blog is to realize it’s a broadcast, not a publication. If it stops moving, it dies. If it stops paddling, it sinks.” This line really helped me to understand blogging. After reading all of Andrews writing, I couldn’t help but feel pushed away from the idea of blogging in my future. I don’t feel like I need to tell the world how I feel. I don’t believe I really have anything super important to say to strangers on a daily, monthly, or even yearly basis. I tend to be a more private person. I often look at all this technology and the shrinking of the world and its mysteries and wish it away. It’s almost like nothing surprises me anymore. And that is sad. Also, I don’t take criticism very well. :)