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  • 8/20/25-motivation

    Daily writing prompt
    What motivates you?
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    This is a nice prompt. Simple, three words, and could be made very straight up, or very complex. For me the things that motivate me are just the events that follow up what I am trying to do, or simply the human reward system. This is just the satisfaction of finishing something, the urge to want to find out more, the feeling to end what you have started. I feel like this is the main reason why people do what they do.

    Another case could be the psychology of the unknown, more specifically the zeigarnik effect(yes this is not something i just made up 🙂 ), this is something where people remember more of incomplete tasks than complete ones and this is a proved theory and phenomenon. Just think about it like this you do two worksheets for school, none of them are actually graded, and you only fully complete one, the other is only half-finished, in a month’s time you are more likely to remember that half complete one. If you remember this worksheet so much you are bound to think about going back and finishing it.

    Thanks for reading!

    ~aaroosh

  • 8/13-first day of school-(the school scoop part one)

    Welcome to PART ONE of the “School Scoop”(i just thought of a random name that sounded kinda cool), in this series of blogs I will mainly be writing about school, and tracking my journey through it, depending on how this goes I may continue this chain of blogs until the 12th grade, so, if you want , follow along every Wednesday, and starting from next Wednesday posts will come at 8am!

    A lot of things become less of a deal every year, for example your birthday, but more significantly the first day of school. There are usually two types of people: people who never want summer to end, and people who despise school, OR people who just want to get back to school. I have never really seen anyone in the middle, just two very drastic sides. I personally, have almost always been the second option, if you have seen a previous post of mine called “boredom”, around a month ago, you would know that I tend to get very bored in summer, so in terms of the first day of school, it is very binary either a high or a low.

    One thing about going back to school as a 7th grader, is that it feels just wrong. To be more precise it feels wrong to see 300 6th graders pop into middle school, looking so lost, knowing that was me just a year ago. When you are so used to being the lowest and youngest grade, the moment you step up it feels so different. 7th grade is also like the middle child affect, you don’t get the just-out-of elementary freedom as a 6th grader, but you also don’t get the feel to be off to high school next year, so I guess 7th grade is unique like that. Anyways see you in the next one, and as always, thanks for reading!

    ~aaroosh

  • 8/7/25-alternate universe

    Daily writing prompt
    Describe your life in an alternate universe.
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    It is hard to really say, is this what you would want your life to be in an alternate universe or what it would be. We are so familiarized with our universe, and our society, there is really no way to describe my life in another universe. In terms of what I want to be in this universe, it would be to go to a good college, get a job, and stuff like that(as a 7th grader I don’t really know a lot about this), but I just think this way because that’s the overall framework in the US, and most of the world. If this was all switched, and the way to live was entirely switched up, who knows what I would want. Today’s question is very puzzling because it is simply so vague. I don’t think I can describe my own life completely now because I would be very biased, in fact I think every human would, so describing in an alternate universe may be impossible. It also may just be that I’m overthinking this way too much(which I probably am), but you never know……..

    btw: I am officially changing posting on Thursdays, to posting on Wednesdays because of school timing(it starts later on Wednesdays, so you can expect posts coming in on Wednesday Mornings, the next post will be on the day of the first day of school, so it will probably be about that, maybe starting school again can fix my grammar lol, anyways, thanks for reading!

    ~aaroosh

  • 7/31-how to describe yourself

    Daily writing prompt
    How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?
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    Originally I would think of how to describe me visually or how to describe my personality to answer this prompt, but if you think about it, I am sure there are many people who have darker hair, or who are sporty, so just saying vague things like that won’t really describe me/you precisely. What I would think about, is more like an about the author page. It gives you some details just about what you like, how old you are, and details like that. My English teacher used to call it the 5 W’s, Who, What, When, Where, and Why. These are the 5 basic things you need to know to learn about someone. Sure giving some adjectives would help, but that’s what the Who and What are for. Who tells you, who they are. What tells you, What type of person they are, When tells you their age, Where tells you where they come from, and most importantly Why tells you their purpose, why they do what they do. In conclusion, describing someone doesn’t have to be through visual or personality context, just something to think about! 🙂

    btw: i’ll most likely switch to posting every Wednesday due to school starting again .

    ~aaroosh

  • 7/24/25-what we know

    We know a lot, but how much do we not know? I have always wondered about this. Reading books about human evolution and inventions truly makes you marvel how far we have come, and how much we have achieved. How much of what we don’t know will we ever know? Is everything just waiting to be discovered? In recent human times, most of our inventions have just been a chain reaction of some other invention, to give you an example of what I am saying think about the invention of the smart phone. Because of the smart phone, so many companies and inventions have come to life. Like uber or doordash, they are both apps, if it weren’t for the phone, would they ever have happened. Its a trend in history that quite a few people have told me about. history simply states what happened, but never what would have happened. If the Wright Brothers never came up with the plane would we still be traveling by boat to cross vast oceans? If the Americans lost the revolutionary war would there ever be an America?! If humans didn’t evolve and dominate, would tigers rule the planet? These are all unanswered questions that we will probably never know. If we don’t know so much, so much of our world is simply just driven by belief. For example aliens(in this context any living organism outside of earth). In the vast universe it is hard to not think that there is some life out their but the truth is we are not 100% sure yet. The reason why so many are trying to invest in space exploration is because they believe that there is life out there. Overall, the main idea of this post is about how much we really know, how much we have progressed, and how much we will advance.

    thank you for reading!

    ~aaroosh

  • 7/17/25-repeatable things

    Everyone has that one thing. The most basic, yet oddly fun stress reliever. Something that is so random, something that everyone else would question. Something that just passes time. For me this happens to be throwing a foam ball off walls. Yes, I know, throwing something off of something seems like the most boring thing in the world but it’s just fun for me. My dad listens to a lot of podcasts and sometimes when I listen to a bit of them, a huge theme in many is that repeatable things result in repeatable outcomes, like if something is working, why change it? For me I do this throwing thing almost any time I have nothing to do, it just fills up the boredom, or “nothingness” and is something so mindless I can think of something completely different while doing this. To illustrate to you how much I do this, let me give you the exact details. It’s summer break for me, and it can’t be everyday that you meet a friend, or have a class, meaning much of the day is doing assignments and courses, You obviously can’t do this all the time(at least if you want to keep your brain from frying), so I have adequate breaks. During these breaks I read or throw my ball around. The total time I throw around is probably around an hour a day if not more. The walls in my room literally have black marks in the shape of circles from how much I throw. It’s just so easy, so oddly satisfying, and I’m sure that you have something like this, or you just haven’t discovered it yet. So next time you are bored think about what is something basic that makes you happy. 🙂

    Question: Do you have one of these “repeatable things” if so what is it? Comment your answer down below!

    ~aaroosh

  • Funny Post 7/15

    Imagine if blinking made a noise!

    People say you can’t eat rocks, what about salt

    A corn is maze of maize!
    No one has ever been in a fully empty room.

    You have never seen a full movie because you are always blinking.

  • 7/13/25-the hook on stories

    As someone who has read/listened to many books, and watched a few TV shows, I am quite familiar with that feeling. The feeling when you end a series, or finish a TV set. At least for me I feel somewhat of a sadness that the story/journey is over, and always wish that there was more of the story. In fact most of the time, I googled:”will there be another book in the (whatever book I was reading) series”. I was always curious why I felt so strongly about these stories, because the fact is, in a matter of days I would be off on another book. Today, in the morning I was thinking to myself about this as I had just finished a great series(the one of us is lying series by karen m. mcmanus). I did a short calculation and almost instantly realized why. This series contained 3 books, I was mixing between reading and listening(through audiobook),and came to the conclusion that it took me around 8 hours to finish each book, meaning 24 hours in total for the entire series. that equates to one whole day! It took me around a month to read/listen the books(mid-june to mid-july), meaning that in this time frame, I had dedicated 1/30 of my life just to this series! To give context, if we took 1/30 of the US population away it would be like taking everyone in ohio, and making them vanish(no offense intentional for anyone who lives in ohio), so of course we draw a connection to the characters and the story! Similar situation with tv shows. The average count of episodes in one series is about 24(usually split up into around 2 seasons), each around half and hour. This sums up to half a day(12 hours), and if you watch the series in a month, that is 1/60 of the time, and I’m sure it’s better of less, because if it was the same as books, I’m quite certain the glasses industry would go off the charts. In conclusion, whenever you feel sad ending a series, come to this post, it’s got all the facts.
    🙂 hehehe

    Question of the Day: What is one series you have recently read/watched/listened? Comment your answer down below!

    btw: from now on i will post regulars(like this) on sunday and thursday, while posting funnies on tuesday

  • 7/11/25-boredom

    It’s summer break for me. Every summer goes the same exact way. I start so excited to be off from school, but as the break progresses I realize I am extremely bored without school. My weekly schedule is generally the same on every week. Meeting up with friends(roughly 2 times a week),and taking courses/classes to speed up learning. Now I wanted to spice things up and as many say it is “better to be super busy than super bored”,I chose something that could have an element of uncertainty something that would be cool to try out. You guessed it, a blog! I never really cared about views or anything like that, I just wanted a place to put down my thoughts. However, I was stunned on how many views and likes I had got within 24 hours of my blog opening(sure, nobody is becoming mega-famous, or anything like that, but it is nice to know that people actually care for what I am writing). I realized that blogging is a very fun and easy thing to do, and could be used as a stress reliever when times get tough(important school tests, many events line up, competitions, etc.). So maybe being bored wasn’t all that bad, at least it got me into blogging!

    Question of the Day:
    If you are a student like me comment what you are doing over summer to pass the time, or if summer is actually super busy for you. If you are an adult think back to your summer breaks, and what did you do during those times)

    btw: I will post twice a day, one regular post(like this one),and one funny post(check out 7/10 funny post),hope you enjoy!

    ~aaroosh

  • 7/10/25-hello

    Hi,this is Aaroosh!
    I am 12 year old who lives in California!
    This blog is mainly to write down my thoughts,feelings,and concerns about the world and my life!
    This is something to do in my free time and a way to just journal what I am thinking.
    Please never judge any content within this blog, and take everything with an open mind!
    With that I am proud to say that I have officially made a blog!
    -aaroosh