I admit that I heard this word used while watching “Pride and Prejudice” last night, but I think that it is such an interesting word. Nonsensical. I looked up in the Thesaurus for synonyms and I found words such as: ridiculous, senseless, irrational, absurd, silly, ludicrous, preposterous, unreasonable, illogical, etc. So that had my brain whirring and spinning as to what I thought about that word and how I would use that word in my daily context of life. I think that I’ve come up with the idea, though I’m not sure if it’s entirely true, that people have to be nonsensical at least at certain moments in their life. Some of us are more nonsensical than others, and some of us enjoy being more nonsensical than others as well. I’m fairly certain that I am more often than not, nonsensical and that I enjoy being nonsensical quite a bit. I despise rationalism and logic for the most part, and I would much rather be absurd or unreasonable in my daily life. Being nonsensical is almost required for some aspects of our life, otherwise we would drive ourselves crazy.
I’ve grown intimately accustomed to being nonsensical in India throughout my semester here. There have been numerous occurrences when I have had to set aside all thoughts of rationality and logic in order to continue moving on in my day to day life. Many things just don’t make sense and so to sit and continuously hash out why each aspect of life is the way it is, is unnecessary and pointless. I’ve learned not to just accept things the way they are and leave it at that, but I’ve learned that I can’t understand why everything is the way it is, although I can try to change or improve it. For instance, I don’t understand why poverty exists to such an extent in India, even with Economics. I don’t think I’ll ever understand, but that doesn’t mean that I simply accept it and let it continue. No, I try to improve it as best as I can, and I try to fight it, although I could be doing so much more if I’m honest with myself.
Why do the blue MnM’s taste better than all of the other MnM’s? There’s no rationality to it, but for some reason they just do. In this case, I accept it, but I also don’t fight it because there’s no point ruining the deliciousness of it all. That may have been irrelevant, but I had to find a way to incorporate that into one of my blogs. The point is, I love being nonsensical. I do appreciate that some decisions call for rationality and logic, but for the most part, I prefer to ignore both of those. I’d rather try things that don’t make sense or that others highly criticize. I’ve been told often that my favorite leadership trait is Challenging the Process. I don’t like to accept something without trying to change it. I’m able to see some things as being that way without logic, but challenging is important to me as well. We’ll never know the potential of something unless we try to challenge it. These are my values for education. So many children from low-income, minority, or even children that are ignored have so much potential, but many times that potential isn’t realized due to lack of interest on the teacher’s and parent’s part. I swore to myself that I would never let that happen if I’m a teacher and/or parent, and the more and more I think about it, the more and more I want to be a teacher on a reservation or in a town/city where the education is poor and the children are being ignored. I would love to harness that potential and allow that child to see how brilliant he/she is. I want to see their face light up when these children realize they have the capability to change the world.
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