Video games are traditionally considered deleterious for children. However, for Thomos Suarez, a 12 year old child prodigy, video games were more than just a method to superficially alleviate your boredom. His fervor for games didn’t extinguish even under the disdain of his parents, and when the app store was launched his innate senses pushed him into learning app development. “At first”, he says, “I began with learning the basics for programing, Pascal, C, and Java.” Well, so thats how it began. Although the apps that he produced are simple, qualitatively, it is still something worthy to be touted.
Now, with the support of his parents, he was able to really begin developing apps. However, the days of developing apps alone were transient. Not long after, he created a club at school that worked together to learn and develop apps. Compared to him, my life as a 12 year old seemed like a turpitude--an average torpid life of running from school to home and vice versa. This young child, Thomos Suarez, wasn’t a good speaker, nor was he full of charisma. What he did have, though, was the zeal. Something impalpable, but at the same time manifest was surrounding him, it seemed--he was a visionary. Watching this twelve year old pursuing his dreams made me look back on myself. What am I doing right now? And is there something that I can do with as much passion as Suarez? It turns out that I have to many things on my mind right now. I love to do a lot of things, maybe to many: physics, math, programing, design, literature and even film making. In a pragmatic sense, it might be better to have a profound passion in one. But to me right now, a life pursuing only one dream seems rather prosaic. Having a profound passion in one area is a laudable thing, it really is. It's just that for me right now, as a freshman in KMLA I find that I want a little more freedom. Einstein said, "If you want to life a happy life, tie it to a goal," and right now I'm anchored at many dreams, searching for where I truly want to head.
I saw this same exact video as well on the TED website! But as I read your review (you can call it?), it is something that I already heard from him. I only find your own analysis towards the last fourth of your writing. I think it would be better to expand upon your own opinions.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy reading Dennis's comments. I wish he was a TA for the GLPS writing program. If not this winter - for sure in the future!
ReplyDeleteHmm...I guess I was to focused on using the words and not the content itself. Should be the next assignment for my revolution project. Thanks, to both of you!
ReplyDeleteHey I used the same video for my assignment but I forgot to put the SAT words in it and now I have to revise it ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
ReplyDeleteGood post. This kid is kind of scary, though. I'm not sure I'd enjoy his presence after an extended period of time. In fact, I might make an App so I can punch him in the face like he did to poor Justin Beiberlake. Just kidding. I'm am completely incapable of designing an App.
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