Everything Eighth Grade

The thing that stands out to me the most from the book or the book conversations was probably the fact that different cultures, time periods, races can revolve around different things, different possessions or ideas.

The thing I learned from the book was that, if you get something you really wanted or really needed, it can change you. It can change everything about you, from the way you act to what you say to who you are. You need to be careful if you get that thing that you want, it could become who you are and you could lose sight of everything that’s actually important.

What I learned from that has taught me that I need to be careful about things that can be very important. It has showed me that some people can be succumbed to possessions or ideas, they can be controlled by it. Sometimes when somebody does something it’s because something changed them. I’ve also learned that it’s not always the people you’d asume to fall for something. It can be the people you thought could stay strong.

The thought of the question was a little crazy. Anything I could ever have? Realistic or not? What to choose, what to choose. Really, I wouldn’t want a unicorn; too normal. Then the thought of being able to have bright colored hair that grows that color out my head came to mind; too simple. Other crazy thoughts have come to my head, but none seeming what I would want, they were jokes; little ideas. Crazy, but small. If I could have anything in the world I would want a time machine, well maybe. That’s what I decided. It’s like the first thing that came into my head that makes sense. But seriously, how cool would it be to be able to travel back or forward in time? You could visit all the different places. You could learn so much more. It’d be really cool. Or go forward in time, see what everything is coming to. I guess it could also be kinda scary. The idea that you could see any point in time, whether in the future or in the past. Scary, but really neat.

There are a number of things that could happen if I had a time machine. You know, like the simple, same-old idea that you would screw up the time-space-continuum and then ruin all of the future ahead. Or the simple thought that you could get stuck back in time. Not that that’s likely. There’s also the small idea that you could possibly mess everything up so bad that you’d make it so you’d never been born, never existed and then you would slowly fade away to nothing. Hmm… I wonder how that’d work. You know, slowly fading away to nothing? I wonder how that would turn out.