Begining... Needs Work.. Suggestions?

.....Ok this is just some stuff that we talked about and I tried, but it needs work, so if you have any comments at all please.. Dont hold back..! Thanks...

If I were to tell you that you were being placed on an island, every one you knew would be there and you would just have to live off of the things you could fit in one back pack, what would you say? I asked myself this very question and could not come up with and answer. In today’s world every one has become dependent on almost every thing they carry with them, there cell phones, I-pods, computers, the clothes on there back, the very little miscellaneous items we use every day such as make up. I do not judge these people for I am one of them. There hasn’t been a day that I can remember where I didn’t rely on my cell phone, or I didn’t need to hear my music in the morning getting ready for school and getting ready for bed. Technology has become a part of our lives that it is almost disgusting. Now to ask Thoreau, or Emerson, or Whitman what they thing the distractions of today world are, they would break out into a huge philosophical tangent about how we must forget everything and live by ourselves in nature. But really? Who can just get up and leave there lives and live naked in nature? No one… in these days and times it is just not a reasonable request to live in nature. People do it, and some one could do it, but it would not be the ideal living, for me at least. With all the technology and the distance between people the things that they would consider distractions and what we consider distractions are just completely different. There are many things that distract my every day life. For one I think school itself is a distraction. I think that my time would be much more useful just living life through the experiences that I need. Some schooling of course would be required but only the schooling that interests me, not the schooling that some old guys in a “board of education” think I should be learning. Why should I learn about chemistry and biology if I have not interests later on in science at all? No matter how hard this is to say I don’t think my cell phone is a distraction. Maybe all the actions I do on the thing like texting, emailing, etc. are all distractions but making calls and being able to be reached is a necessity. Another distraction in my life is the media. Thoreau states… “to a philosopher all news, as it is called is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over there tea…” I agree with this 100% Sure knowing what is going on in the world is very important but some of the things that are said just don’t apply to my daily life. Yet when I hear that some one got shot, or I hear the latest gossip on Lindsey Lohan I do stop and let it affect even the littlest time out of what ever I m doing.