So, I picked option 4...and have been trying to think of a topic...and I did...but I had to pick two characters to best explain everything...will that be considered against the regulations or prompt? Anyway, here she is ^.^ Could you please offer any advice that you can? Also...if you're wondering why I'm so odd...just ignore it. xD Thank you for your time.
Beginning from the time of my childhood, I had always found myself under the influence of a great many characters, usually fictional. In fact, my initial point of view on myself, on humanity and on this world sprang from one of the most unusual of sources, considering that he is not even of this Earth. A Vulcan by the name of Spock would bring me to a point far greater than could ever be reached by relying upon intrinsically flawed humanity.
Spock, brilliant and collected, proved, time and again, the infallibility of his logical adherence. My admiration and aspiration reached far beyond Spock's cool logic and reserve, however. As I grew older, Vulcanism came to represent all that humanity ever could be. Truly a society to function without emotion would be a society to exist without animosity, without massacre and without avarice. Perfection could be achieved the meditation! It was perfect! Then reality dawned, this could only be achieved if we permanently alter the entirety of mankind; which, of course, would never be achieved.
My system, my methods, faulty at best, would be upheld by myself. My desire to follow an unemotional path now existed simply because I despised my own human nature. Yes, I was a bit melodramatic. But if you'll excuse this, as I was only an adolescent. At any rate, this mindset continued long after finishing the original Star Trek series. It would be until my sophomore year in high school that my realization of reality would truly be forever altered.
Still a Trekie at heart, I came across the second series, the Next Generation of Star Trek. It would be from this series that yet another fictional character would influence my disposition. I would rediscover the beauty of humanity in an android.
Admittedly, I was still a cynic and when first introduced to the show, I immediately disliked the character Data. He was an android, programed for unemotional perfection, and yet sought enlightenment in humanity; albeit, he was programmed in such a way. But come on! He was perfect just as he had been programmed. For what purpose would emotion serve him? Why would he wish to emulate an inferior life form? Why would a writer create such a character? I mean, obviously for irony, right? Well, at any rate, it was entirely illogical to me.
As the series continued, it became apparent to me that Data was no mere machine, he was a sentient being, sentient and superior being. Data was a being fully capable of logic and in spite of his superiority, he desired to be human. His actions, his words, his thoughts all derived from something I had been too stubborn to see before.
Humanity has been something I had tried to rid myself of. It was something I had scorned. In spite of all greatness surrounding me, all beauty within man I saw only our inevitable downfall. It was my inevitable downfall. This is ever apparent to me now. Within humanity is something I could never have seen, but now something I cannot ignore. Humanity is a wondrous thing because of feeling, because of imperfection. Never will I forget this.
Beginning from the time of my childhood, I had always found myself under the influence of a great many characters, usually fictional. In fact, my initial point of view on myself, on humanity and on this world sprang from one of the most unusual of sources, considering that he is not even of this Earth. A Vulcan by the name of Spock would bring me to a point far greater than could ever be reached by relying upon intrinsically flawed humanity.
Spock, brilliant and collected, proved, time and again, the infallibility of his logical adherence. My admiration and aspiration reached far beyond Spock's cool logic and reserve, however. As I grew older, Vulcanism came to represent all that humanity ever could be. Truly a society to function without emotion would be a society to exist without animosity, without massacre and without avarice. Perfection could be achieved the meditation! It was perfect! Then reality dawned, this could only be achieved if we permanently alter the entirety of mankind; which, of course, would never be achieved.
My system, my methods, faulty at best, would be upheld by myself. My desire to follow an unemotional path now existed simply because I despised my own human nature. Yes, I was a bit melodramatic. But if you'll excuse this, as I was only an adolescent. At any rate, this mindset continued long after finishing the original Star Trek series. It would be until my sophomore year in high school that my realization of reality would truly be forever altered.
Still a Trekie at heart, I came across the second series, the Next Generation of Star Trek. It would be from this series that yet another fictional character would influence my disposition. I would rediscover the beauty of humanity in an android.
Admittedly, I was still a cynic and when first introduced to the show, I immediately disliked the character Data. He was an android, programed for unemotional perfection, and yet sought enlightenment in humanity; albeit, he was programmed in such a way. But come on! He was perfect just as he had been programmed. For what purpose would emotion serve him? Why would he wish to emulate an inferior life form? Why would a writer create such a character? I mean, obviously for irony, right? Well, at any rate, it was entirely illogical to me.
As the series continued, it became apparent to me that Data was no mere machine, he was a sentient being, sentient and superior being. Data was a being fully capable of logic and in spite of his superiority, he desired to be human. His actions, his words, his thoughts all derived from something I had been too stubborn to see before.
Humanity has been something I had tried to rid myself of. It was something I had scorned. In spite of all greatness surrounding me, all beauty within man I saw only our inevitable downfall. It was my inevitable downfall. This is ever apparent to me now. Within humanity is something I could never have seen, but now something I cannot ignore. Humanity is a wondrous thing because of feeling, because of imperfection. Never will I forget this.
