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Tsume Rokaro Vice Captain
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 Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:50 pm
Okay, as dark at this might be, this thought was triggered by a friend having to leave on account of a fire alarm...
Well, I got to thinking... what is it, exactly, that makes little kids in grade school simply desire to do things they aren't supposed to? I mean, at my school, we had to walk on the third tile so we couldn't touch the pictures on the wall....which made us WANT to touch the pictures on the wall. And we weren't supposed to pull the fire alarm....but some kids did anyway. (getting in major trouble....but whatever...)
I've noticed the impulse in myself. "Don't do blah." I hear that and instantly, there's that pull to WANT to do whatever blah happens to be. Even when we get older, we have a more intense feeling to do so. A teacher posted a sign on the inside of a stall in the ladies room at school in the science wing. "Please do not write of the stalls in this restroom. It's been graffiti free for years." The next time I'm in there, a religious war is being written out on the stall door between what looks to be a handful of Satanists and a rather disproportionate number of Christians. (Now, don't peg me for calling the others Satanists...it was scribbled out by the people writing it.)
So again, my question is this: Why is it that being told what not to do, makes us want to do it? Is there a work around it? What is your opinion.
(I'll post my opinions on this after someone responds.)
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Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2009 6:42 pm
I think it might be because of the amount of rules that we all live by today. All people have instincts and urges to do things that are usually frowned upon by society, and it's just human nature to want to be free from rules and regulations. In my personal opinion, the reason for doing things such as pulling a fire alarm, or writing on the walls of the stalls in the bathroom, is because we as humans still have not outgrown our primal instincts to be free. Doing the things that you are not supposed to do is a way to break the cycle of everyday life and add just a bit more freedom to your life, even if it is for a very brief moment.
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Tsume Rokaro Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 3:52 pm
Well, I can understand the will to be free, but at the same time, I'm not sure that there is always that undercurrent to things. I mean, think about it. When we're little, we play games that involve us having lots of rules. We might want to be free, but there's still that desire for order and predictability. We make games that well, require rules. We'll change a game of freeze tag to our liking or we'll play out a game from our favorite tv show...a lot of the games we play simply build off of rules. (Which leads to people being mad at whoever breaks them...) ama_AWL Doing the things that you are not supposed to do is a way to break the cycle of everyday life and add just a bit more freedom to your life, even if it is for a very brief moment. That's what I get and don't get at the same time. If we start off making rules as kids.....why is it that we desire to break free when we get older....? I mean, sure it's for the moment, but logic will tell us that there are consequences for getting caught. I mean, if you scribble stuff on the walls and then sign your name, you'll be penalized for being caught, no? What's the point if there can be essentially taxing results?
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:24 am
I think it's human curiosity that makes us to do that, mostly the "What if?" question.
It's ture, rules are there to keep order in society, but the way we as human beings are built, we sometimes wonder or even 'go' in the other direction. "I can't do this? Why? What happens 'if' I did?" Thus they go out and attempt and face the consequences later. It's like telling a person "Don't look down!" and they do. It's usually because somewhere in the back of that person's mind, they're asking, "Well, why?" and just instinctively look out of sheer curiosity even if they know they shouldn't, and often end up regretting it later, depending on the case (I was in that situation quite a few times...I have a fear of heights and I still looked down even though I know I freak out more when I do, but it's because someone told me not to do it! XD).
From a religious standpoint (please don't get me wrong, I dislike comparing things to religious stuff, but this kinda drives the nail into the coffin with what I'm trying to say so bear with me.), it's said that God gave humans free will, but he also gave us a law: The Ten Commandments. But because we were given this free will, we had the choice of not following said laws. But every action has a consequence, and personally, I think we were given this free will to make mistakes and learn from them inevitably.
Overall, it's hard to say for certain why we do whqat we're told not to do sometimes and what I said is 'just a thought'. I think it's just the way we are, and not much can change that fact.
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Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2009 6:25 pm
I guess we are just humans lol idk really, some of us our just different from how we will listen to things and how other stuff wont matter. dono to be honest.
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