Analysis

5. What’s going on with your way of life? What seems to be the general pattern or direction or point or situation?
It seems like I am trapped into this endless routine of playing. Most of the things I do are for my entertainment. And it seems like I am spending way too much time on doing things that I want to do and not enough time on the things I have to do.

6. How do the good, bad, and neutral in your way of life fit together?
Like, I said before everything I’m doing now is good, bad and neutral. For now, it is all fun and games but I feel like I’m not as prepared as I could be for the future. Although handball and video games are entertaining and acts as a test for my reflexes/hand-eye coordination, it is also my burden. My mind is drained into these two things and it consumes the time that I could be using to prepare for college or anything else that lays ahead for me.

7. Does your way of life seem like a “typical American Way of Life”? Why or why not?

In some ways, it is like the “typical American Way of Life” because like many other Americans I procrastinate. Rather than doing what I have to do first, I go out and play handball or stay in my room to play video games. Before last year, my life could have been the definition the “typical American Way of Life.” I was playing video games nonstop. I would go straight home just to play and I would also sacrifice my 8 hours of sleep for it too.

Recently I think I have been pulling away from the AWOL. I’m still doing things that are considered to be “American,” but now I do less of it. I like to think that I have become more focus and doing the things that are most important. Games have become less of a distraction. And now I am actually able to control myself from games.

8. What aspects of your way of life seem really interesting to you – you’d like to think about them more deeply, figure out how this sort of thing developed historically, what’s going to happen to this aspect of your way of life within your lifetime? What questions do you have about these really interesting aspects of your way of life?

After doing this video, I can see now that what I am doing now is really heading at the wrong direction. My everyday life after school is just playing. I’m not saying playing a sport and having a hobby is bad, it’s just that I do it too often. Here in America, we have the privilege of doing what we want and still able to pass by. But what if I were to live with my grandparents in China, where I have to physically work for my food (fishing, growing crops, etc.) and free time is to the minimal? Would I be able to be this carefree and still able to do what I want?