Landon Julson

Period 4

 

Perception of Time Writings

 

 

1.      Past-Positively Focused:

 

-Fishing

-Hunting

-Camping

-Dogs

-Family trips

-Grandma and grandpa’s house

-Elementary school

-Yellowstone

-Lake Chippewa Campground

-Biking

-Skating

 

2.      Past-Negative Focused:

One thing I remember completely failing at was basketball.  I was so bad at basketball when I played in 4^th and 5^th grade it wasn’t even funny.  I remember going to practice and putting in the work and it never paid off in the games.  One of the worst games I had my 5^th grade year was when I got the ball and had an opportunity to make a basket, and of course I missed it even though I had no pressure for the shot.  I decided that since I was so bad that I should quit and never try it again, and to this day I will never play another game of organized basketball.

 

3.       Present-Hedonsim:

I am the world’s biggest procrastinator with school.  I never have any ambition to do my homework or study when I am at home.  I have so many other things that I can do to have fun with my life instead of schoolwork.  The last thing I look forward to doing after a day of school, lifting, and then work is to come home and do my homework.  I always live for the fun things in life and do things during my day to make even the worst places (like school) seem like it goes by faster than it does.  I play lots of baseball and love to hunt and will put time from school and being home with my family to do those fun things because someday I won’t be able to do the things that I can when I am young.

 

 

4.      Present-Negative Focused (Fatalism):

 

I try to not put my mind on the negative aspects of life right now because there will always be another day to do something or get something right even on the worst of days.  I play lots of baseball and with baseball you can make a life comparison because one day you can have a terrible day on the diamond but the next day or even next inning or at bat you can come through and have success.  Sometimes that success is really big and will brighten your whole day or game and sometimes it will just be small enough to let you know you’re doing fine.  I think that it doesn’t help us any on a day to day basis to think about things that bring us down. Just live for the best things and forget about the ones that will have a negative impact on you.

 

5.      Future-Goal Oriented:

-Paychecks

-Patience while hunting

-Working out

-Saving money

-Planning for education after high school

-Sports

-Trying hard

 

6.      Future-Transcendental:

 

I’m not really sure how to react to this one, I mean I really think that it does matter what happens when I’m alive because I really don’t want to live a dull boring life of just not caring.  Even if I get rewarded after I die for doing nothing with my life I would still like to be someone that people will remember.