Thursday, December 15, 2011

No One Knows What's Inside Your Head But You



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After stumbling upon and reading a handful Calvin and Hobbes comics in my garage I learned that no one knows what is inside your head. If you have ever read Calvin and Hobbes you know they depict American life through the thoughts of six year kid who believes that his stuffed tiger is real. Though the boy and the tiger are often seen through readers as comical, I see it as a release of a different perspective on life. An imaginary friends tell your all of your wisest thoughts is pretty good start of an excellent story. The protagonist Calvin is able to use his imagination to see his stuffed tiger especially different than anyone else can imagine and through this, the author Bill Watterson is able to show us the thoughts we all ignored.  When people start to use their imagination extremely well, they are seen as different and because they are seen as different we are try to try and change them. This is what happened in the last Calvin and Hobbes. Because no one was able to see what Calvin saw, Calvin was perceived as different and forced onto medication never to use his imagination again. 

The last Calvin and Hobbes.

 What I learned from this is that no one is able to see what is inside our heads. No one really knows what someone else is thinking.  When contemplated one realizes that this is a lose-lose scenario because even if we did know what someone else is thinking we would might be tempted to control them, although not knowing what someone else is thinking isn’t good it has a bright side because it leaves some sort of mystery to what is going on in the other persons head. Anyway the thoughts you think only you can only you understand. I also learned from this comic strip is however you express those thoughts or ideas in your head is how people will understand you.

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