Anyway, I understand what you mean completely, but I partly understand those people too. I agree with what darth_funk wrote - it's not really that physics is boring itself, but the way it's presented definitely is. Before reading this, I never actually thought of it that way, for me it was something so abstract and incomprehensible that I simply didn't bother with it more than I was forced to. The way they present it to us in school is just stupid - a bunch of formulas you MUST learn, because you MUST get good grades, because you MUST be good at school and so on. Maybe it's the MUST that bothers us and makes all the subjects sort of repulsive, although they might not be - but we just don't see that. Maybe they should teach us only the stuff we actually need in everyday life and make us WANT to learn it, because we would know it's good for us. But (at least at our school) we keep learning things that we know we'll never need again, and forget them immediately after an exam or something. That's just sad :(
What bothers me as well is that some people think like this about everything. A perfect example is my mum: she doesn't care about anything, it's meaningless to bother about anything, blablabla. She keeps asking me what difference does it make if Hilde's (sorry, a stupid example XD) good at a competition or what's in it for me and so on. Like there HAS to be something in it for me directly, it's just something that makes your day a little less dull or gives you some inspiration that hard work does pay off, ... If you don't care about anything, why should you even bother breathing, maybe the best thing to do would be just to die - than you'll never have to care again :S
So, I think it's not you, there are just two kinds of people in this world - those who don't give a crap about anything and those who find joy in little things, which make them happy - and even if it's for an hour only, I think it's worth it. So you just keep caring ;D We love you that way :)
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Anyway, I understand what you mean completely, but I partly understand those people too. I agree with what darth_funk wrote - it's not really that physics is boring itself, but the way it's presented definitely is. Before reading this, I never actually thought of it that way, for me it was something so abstract and incomprehensible that I simply didn't bother with it more than I was forced to. The way they present it to us in school is just stupid - a bunch of formulas you MUST learn, because you MUST get good grades, because you MUST be good at school and so on. Maybe it's the MUST that bothers us and makes all the subjects sort of repulsive, although they might not be - but we just don't see that. Maybe they should teach us only the stuff we actually need in everyday life and make us WANT to learn it, because we would know it's good for us. But (at least at our school) we keep learning things that we know we'll never need again, and forget them immediately after an exam or something. That's just sad :(
What bothers me as well is that some people think like this about everything. A perfect example is my mum: she doesn't care about anything, it's meaningless to bother about anything, blablabla. She keeps asking me what difference does it make if Hilde's (sorry, a stupid example XD) good at a competition or what's in it for me and so on. Like there HAS to be something in it for me directly, it's just something that makes your day a little less dull or gives you some inspiration that hard work does pay off, ... If you don't care about anything, why should you even bother breathing, maybe the best thing to do would be just to die - than you'll never have to care again :S
So, I think it's not you, there are just two kinds of people in this world - those who don't give a crap about anything and those who find joy in little things, which make them happy - and even if it's for an hour only, I think it's worth it. So you just keep caring ;D We love you that way :)