Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Rubix Cube


My little brother, James, got a Rubix Cube for his birthday. Ever since then we have been trying to solve it, unsuccessfully. Getting one face of the cube we have down pat, but getting the whole thing, that's not so simple.
I'm sitting there, switching my gaze from the colorful cube to the illuminated computer screen with the cheats I need to solve the puzzle, and I still can't solve this thing. I manage to get a third of the way there, maybe two thirds, and then I turn one side the wrong way, and I mess the whole thing up so bad that I have to start over.
I realize, this little Rubix Cube here represents people so well. As soon as you think you have someone figured out, you have solved that one face, you learn that there is a new side to him or her. Solving this new side will mess up the side you have already figured out.
And if there was a cheat sheet for life, would it really work? I know that the Rubix Cube cheat sheets I have found online are easily mistaken. I have been past halfway, past two thirds of the way, at least five times, and I manage to mess up again. Life isn't a little Rubix Cube, it doesn't have just six sides. A cheat sheet for life would have to be twice the size of the entire universe, and very easily mistaken. Life has an infinitive number of sides. Where two Rubix Cubes are a like, no two lives are even remotely alike.
It is possible to solve the Rubix Cube though. Is it possible to solve another human being? In those rare occasions where the amateur Rubix Cuber is able to complete all six sides, what does this represent in real life?
Do all six sides match up to true love? The perfect friendship? Or something no human has been able to accomplish?

Naming The Blog

This is my Blog.
It took me about an hour to name. One of my best friends, Chris, and I spent an hour coming up with name after name. The original blog title was going to be Figuring It Out, but the URL was taken by someone who posted twice, back in 2003. The next plan was to have the URL be FIO, which was used as a test site back in 2001. We went through several other names: Life In General, LIG, UG (LIG, but L+I=U) Mood Swing, ect. It seemed like every single letter combination that had anything to do with life was taken. But we were determined to prevail, and were not giving up easily. Somewhere along the way we came up with making the title a acronym for L.I.F.E. We came up with many more titles for this, most of them funny, and a few dealing with eggplants (Life In Frace's Eggplant)
Finally Chris came up with Life In France's Eyes. LIFE for short.

What's this blog about?
If you haven't already guessed it, you may want to look into improving your observation skills. This blog is about: Life. Now, if you want to hear about what I ate for breakfast, or what I'm thinking about wearing for school tomorrow, please take the closest exit and find a different, lamer blog. I will not be writing about boring stuff. Instead, I will be witting about the things closest to my heart, thoughts of mine, or things that spark my attention. This means, most likely a lot about acting, especially as the summer months come, and quiet a bit of outward thinking.
I hope you decide to stay for more then the first post.
-Life, France