Yuta

For my creative project, I was supposed to follow a person for a larger part of the day and record everything I thought they were thinking during the day in real time.

I started to consider the people I thought would be fun to do this project with, and in the end I chose my floor mate Yuta. Super bowl Sunday was the day I picked to do this project, simply because he would be around all day. During the game, it was quite easy to predict what he was thinking and why he was thinking as such. But as the game went on, I found it harder and harder to figure out what he might be thinking, simply because I started to question myself if I was right. I didn’t want to write something down that could be right, but at the same time, I didn’t know if was wrong, I could be right. This turned into a complete mess and I started to become really confused. I wasn’t sure what to do anymore. I thought following someone for the day was going to be easy, and figuring out what they were thinking was going to be even easier, but I was wrong. Then it hit me!! The mind is something not to be messed with. I for one don’t understand myself or my thoughts for that matter, so why should I go around trying to figure out what someone else is thinking? Its just not fair.
I really don’t know where my creative project was supposed to take me, but this is what I learned from it. I first must learn to understand myself and my life, before I go and try to understand others.
Jimi