Nothing is Random, Everything Has Purpose

For a little fun in class today, I wrote the above statement on the board. It has nothing to do with Web Design, but I thought it was important. I wrote the statement on the board, in big, brown letters, peppered with streaks of blue to give it that chocolate cake look to it, just to start the class off on a philosophical slant.

I called for the students' attention once the bell rang, and began to speak of why I think this large statement written behind me.

I told them that I had heard the word "random" for the upteenth time and that I needed to follow that up with a statement of my own. If so many things, were "random" in the eyes of the students, then wouldn't their reality be something that forever happens to them, instead of the other way around?

I stopped for a moment, before writing this, and even when I was in the middle of drawing the circle in the "r" I felt that maybe I had made a mistake. "What does this have to do with Web Design?" I asked myself. But the more I looked at it, and my overall job as a teacher, the more I realized that I had to do this. If it was important enough for me to stop and even consider the change, then it needed to happen.

Most students understood what I said, many pulled up every example they could think of.

"What is my purpose in life"

"Your purpose in life is to create beauty and find love"

I don't know if they will view Web Design the same after today.