Things & Stuff

One of the main points I noticed when listening to "A Place for Your Stuff" by Carlin, is that despite the fact that everyone has various amounts of "stuff", this stuff can relate to the ideas and thoughts of people, and by packing it, it can relate to writing or placing the information down on paper. He spoke of how everyone has stuff, in retrospect this can mean everyone has ideas. For example, people who think more seriously and more often may have a larger thinking stream as opposed to someone who rarely takes time to think about situations in general (i.e. the size of your house). Another thing I noticed is that when we have to pack for a trip we take a portion of our house with us, the same applies when we write with the exception that we lay down our ideas in some form of recording. When you continuously revise a paper or an essay its the same as having to always pack when travelling from one place to another carrying less and less "stuff". The more you revise something the more concentrated and focused it is, as opposed to being a tangled jungle of words. By using less topics or subjects, we can actually increase the focus point of the message we are trying to convey (meaning we are packing "less and less" as Carlin may say). In conclusion, everyone has "stuff" meaning everyone has ideas, how we pack and place them to focus on our main point determines how much "stuff" we really had in the first place. Makes you think doesn't it?