Perhaps once or twice before I've been asked to write about a learning experience. I remember being frustrated, along with everyone else, about finding a topic. Being less than 18 years old when given such an assignment doesn't allow for a lot of opportunities for profound experiences, which felt like part of the requirement, and most of us ended up barely drawing cliché life lessons from mundane or half interesting events.

In contrast, what I especially like about these blog posts is how they seem to simply tell of a topic with what feels like a lack of excess formality or search for meaning. Even including the one about living without Google, the two feel everyday and somewhat relatable, but without losing interest.

While the topics have inherent value, exposing them isn't the explicit intent, and reading them without the blunt and formulaic presentation of choreographed paragraphs makes them a lot more enjoyable. While this might not be a conscious decision, since they are just blog posts, I want to try to emulate that in the first paper.

Finding a decent topic might still be an issue, though. One of these is a development of an interest, and the other is a challenge with all sorts of cynical strings attached, while both are things that occurred over long periods of time. Like most people I've learned plenty of things in many different time frames, and while I want to keep away from the issue first mentioned I still need to find something remotely worthwhile to write about.