Clarify my Thoughts

      Honestly, before the teacher and student conference, I was not pretty sure about my topic for the issue paper. On the one hand, the first topic I wrote as first draft was ”The relationship of happiness and the society”, which mainly discussed about what happiness means to each one of us in our daily life. However, the later on theory researches I did on the field of “happiness” show more consideration between the individual matters with happiness, rather than the whole society. Thus, it seemed that I am leading the ship off course. On the other hand, after noticing the fact that to discuss happiness in the philosophy way was not what I want, I got the idea of changing topic.

     However, after so many weeks of writing about ”happiness”, and the discussion whether with classmates during classes or with teacher in the meeting, the problems I mentioned above previously did not seem so unsolvable.

     Firstly, I thought I was writing something too far away from my original issue. Yet, the truth is, by skimming through the research I had done, there is actually a pattern, which could be follow. I said that my annotation focus more on individual relation with happiness, but from the division of different aspect of happiness, which was quoted from Aristotle, the first and second annotation mentioned qualified explanation on pleasure. By the examples given in each work, there is also a clear notice that I talked about pleasureness more on the concerns of virtual reality and sensations. Then, why not write about game addictions?

     If we look at game addictions, there is actually various situations for us to probe into. For example, why does a person get addicted to video games? Why does winning maters so much in games? Why sensation will people get? How long will the sensation last? Questions involves in all kinds of field are revealed in this simple incident “game addiction”.

     Therefore, after the conference, despite of solving my problems in writing the issue paper, I also realized my own defect. I had to be more curious. Though observing others from a distance will not need to undertake or add so much personal feelings. Sometimes it seemed a bit disconnected from the world and others (for instance, my behavior in the interview with foreign student). But I am glad that I have the chance to notice this problem of myself whether during the expository writing course or the presentation and communication course.