The Absurd

Today in my English lesson we watched the rest of the the film, 'Perfume' (which was incredibly weird and graphic in places) and then after that we started talking about something called absurdism, which my teacher said is used in our next book, 'The Outsider'. 

According to Wikipedia absurdism is:

'the conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent meaning in life and the human inability to find any. In this context absurd does not mean "logically impossible," but rather "humanly impossible."' 

My teacher said it was to do with the repetitive fashion that we tend to lead out lives and about people constantly searching for a reason why we do it. This did make me think about how repetitive life is. We do the same thing every day which seems a little bit pointless. 

Surely there is more to life than doing the same thing day in day out, so I was thinking that perhaps I ought to do some more interesting things more often, something that I don't do everyday just to spice life up a bit! 

However, thinking of these things is a completely different story! I am going to need a bit of help with this one I think! So, if you're reading this blog and you can think of anything interesting (and realistic) for me to do then either comment below or if you know me then just tell me in person because I am a little bit stuck!

I was trying to think of some of the things that I have done that are interesting, different or out of the ordinary for me and this is what I have come up with: 

• I climbed Mount Snowdon the year before last to raise money for Marie Curie Cancer. I did this with my Mum and my Step-dad and it was AMAZING! We managed to climb to the summit and back down in 4 and a half hours. I can't remember exactly how much we raised but it was definitely over £300, perhaps £400 so it was well worth it. 
• Towards the end of last year I entered an art exhibition at my local art gallery, in which I came 3rd so I was obviously very pleased (especially as I had no idea that there were prizes.)
• I went to Paris with my school which was the MOST amazing school trip EVER! It was close to 40 degrees celcius but we did so many things and I have so many great memories so I will never forget it! 
• I wrote a story with my friend, Dan, about him and a banana called Colin.
• I met the cheeky girls - my Dad made me go up to get an autograph (saddo.)

Amy suggested that I write about making my 'amazing cakes' that I make for people's birthday in this list of interesting things I have done but even that isn't really different or anything like that because I do that all the time! I tend to make the same cakes unless I have a special request from someone so really this is one of those repetitive things that I do so perhaps they get less and less special but I don't know. I enjoy making them, people enjoy eating them, I always get some nice compliments so I guess they are a good thing so I will continue to make them.

So yeah any ideas you have about random things that I can do, please comment or tell me in person! Thanks.