Apologies if I'm playing Master Of The Obvious here, but I don't know whether "the things we choose to care about" is idiomatic to American English. From your description, I think you understood.
When someone says "the things you have to do..." ("... for your kids", "... to get a license", "... to get elected", etc.), it's highlighting, usually with a sense of irritation or exasperation, some necessity that seems irrelevant, excessive, or ridiculous.
From your descirption of that show (which I saw, but years ago), I would assume that the president's use of that expression, and the despair in his voice, were showing his reaction to the absurd contrast between the moral gravity of deciding to assassinate/execute a foriegn leader versus the legal triviality of the geographic location where that would take place.
Again, from the whole context of your video, it seems you that understood perfectly well. This was a "just in case" comment.
Does anyone know the apparent reference Rosianna is making at the end of this video with her whispered "Swing and repeat." ?
I really do think that Rosianna and Hank and John Green and certain others are a sort of higher order of person that have the ability to catalyze/make others better, brighter, more compassionate. I'm not sure if there should be a name for it, and maybe there is.
emotionalism...its almost a class thing...not everyone is lucky enough to go to college, expand their brain and look at the bigger picture, just appreciate the fact that you have the frame of mind to look bigger
when I heard you talking about the woman in the supermarket queue after reading the title of the video I was almost sure you we're gonna talk about david foster wallace's speech at that graduation in stanford, because he makes really a similar point, about being able 'educate' your choices, to 'educate' your behaviour. Also sooo agree with what you were saying about doing English at Uni and going from seeing the world as this artificially construction and realising that well, it's what it is..
Let's not jump to judge the woman annoyed by the line too quickly or too much. We don't know her situation. Yes, it's ridiculous to be annoyed about having to wait a few minutes in a line at a grocery store, but none of us are perfect and she could have been having a horrible day, or late, or whatever. Let's get off our high horses, because none of us are actually righteous enough to never let stupid things bother us. when was the last time a video took too long to buffer and you were annoyed?
I'm surprised at 0:10 that Rosianna would choose the "self-service"/automated/job-displacing line in at a market. But then, I’ve always thought there should be a ‘Ned Ludd Business School and/or Department of Economics’ ; there’s more merit to ‘Luddite Theory’ than many suppose. Kinda Nationalist/'home team'/'Love (& employ) Thy Neighbor'.
Rosianna here is more discursive than usual, though enthralling as ever.
Yet again you have given me something to mull over... Have you been talking about mythologising in the arts (music, literature, film, etc.) at university..? Everything is a construct, nothing is 'natural'..? Very Rowland Barthes esque. We choose to believe what we know is fictitious because where would the fun be if we didn't let ourselves be fooled?
I love the idea of doing your wedding readings from a novel or other some such book instead of a religious text! I'd never thought of that before, but it's brilliant, and I am going to steal it should I ever get married. :)
I think its definitely a more profound and more empowering way to imagine it, naturally opposing this whole idea that we are limited by our circumstances. Reading the last page of Paper Towns at your friend's wedding sounds interesting! It would be interesting to see how you would link it to the life and their marriage :)
The way Society determines or some how limits our choices and punishes us when we choose from outside those limits ,is what makes" the things we choose to care about" the reason to our misery.
Loved this, i waited for my homework to print and listened to her ramble on about such a pointless thing which i found, as i do with most things, highly amusing.
I usually don't comment just because I don't belive I can articulate anything worthy of your videos, but I just wanted to say that I thought this was lovely. And thoughful. And reflective, and poignant, and very very good.
The world is so self involved. After living in Kenya for several years, I see everything that I have in Canada. But people around me always seem to be bitching about little things, like having to wait in a line for five minutes before getting lunch. I would rather care about friends, academics, pretty much anything that actually matters a few minutes later.
How do you always make such intelligent videos? It seems like you can just turn on a camera and spew interesting, meaningful thoughts. I admire that you can do that so much. I aspire to be able to be as thoughtful and well-spoken as you. <3
This is actually something I've been trying to practice too: letting things just roll off my back. I think it's a matter of pride too: you feel justified to feel angry, frustrated or whatever. I'm always surprised when I manage to let things that usually would make my blood boil, just slide by. You really have more control over these things than you'd think.
I've realized that one of the most important skills I need to learn in life is knowing when to yield to opposition/trouble/bother and when to be firm.
I remember reading about Daoism in 6th grade and thinking how silly it is for people to just go with the flow all the time. But now I see the point of relaxing, being the water that always follows the path of least resistance. Yet sometimes I've got to put my foot down and stand up for whatever-it-is. A curious balance indeed; we're all learning.
This video comes at a perfect time, because im seriously considering quitting the field hockey team at my school just because the coach is so ridiculous and clearly not dedicated to the team and doesnt play for no reason to the point where today she didnt even make eye contact with me and its not worth all the negative energy and i dont want to be an angry or an upset person, i want to be happy and i have to choose not to care about something thats taking away from the positivity in my life.
I talk about this all the time, especially in the context of fandoms (though, as you said, it is a lot bigger than that). If you want to continue loving a fandom, but something happens that you don't like, just choose not to care about it. It doesn't sound possible, but it really is.
Were you drinking tea or coffee? Yes, I do agree with you. The things i care about does say a lot about me, which is why i try not to always let people know what I care about. Do you do the same thing?
Perhaps the lady in your queue was practicing her boggart spells?
That's not a very good response to what is a very thoughtful video - you put it all so well. What we choose to care about defines who we are, who we're with, and how we see the world. It's not what's right or wrong, but who you are? Definitely.
"This is Water" by David Foster Wallace (aka his 2005 Kenyon College commencement address) talks about exactly what you are talking about! About choosing what to care about, right down to supermarket lines and grocery shopping! I hope you've read it.
@missxrojas not plagiarised...paraphrased! haha. No, you took his ideas and applied him to your own life which is awesome. It was a very thoughtful video. and the whole point of the speech is that these trivial things are actually immensely important things we struggle with every day.
I love this video because it's like you created it from the ideas in my head. These are things that I think about a lot. I'm glad you made it. I've been in a literary theory class this semester, and it pulls apart the structure and the reasons behind everything that we do and are. At first it made everything seem so pointless and arbitrary, but I kind of got over it and started trying to use the things I'm learning to improve the structure and work with/in it better.
I remember waiting in line at the post office to mail a package right before Christmas...there was a really long line, and people were getting so angry that the line was moving so slowly...I actually turned around to the lady who was complaining behind me and said "it's all our faults, really...we are the ones who waited until the last minute to mail our packages"...it's easier to blame others instead of thinking how we can improve ourselves...as my friends says...1st world problems.
First, The West Wing is AWESOME! Favourite show ever, hands down.
Secondly, I find that whenever I'm muttering about something that is slightly irritating (although I do hope that when I do it is at least a tiny bit justified), that I'm only doing that because I know that its a trivial matter, and not something actually worth caring about enough to voice loudly.
that's very well put. i also notice things people care about and things i care about. I'm studying International Development and it really puts into perspective the various things people care about and what is really important. but i guess, i would say, as someone who pretends to care about nothing, that it's not exactly the healthiest thing and that caring and the ability to express yourself and what you care about is important, no matter what you care about.
i guess i fall into the far too apathetic category. it is very very difficult to make me upset, but that's not to say that i don't necessarily care. It's just that my opinion may be no more right or wrong the opposing opinion and realizing this i allow others to make choices and be happy as i can be happy either way. perhaps this is not always the right approach but how can one know?
I totally agree. I've always noticed this at school, where I've never really fitted in. Some of my peers put importance on things that I don't care about and then they're outraged that I don't think it's as significant as they do.
I totally agree. I've always noticed this at school, where I've never really fitted in. Some of my peers put importance on things that I don't care about and then they're outraged that I don't think it's as significant as they do.
I've reached the point that I have nothing to comment on in your videos because you put it all so perfectly. I love looking at what people choose to care about because it does define you as a person - and there's not always a right or a wrong answer. Eg should one care more about the dying planet or the people dying of hunger? :/ I have also been experiencing a much more pedestrian version of what you're talking about while packing for Uni for the first time. What to leave, what to take...
The things we choose to care about really speak wonders about who you are as a person. You could care about the mundane crap that bothers everyone or you could care about the stuff that only matters to you and other people you know.
@missxrojas This idea of "choosing" to care about certain things reminded me of one of John's Thoughts From Places video from London/Edinburgh that you were actually in. It's really an interesting concept, and I just want to thank you for making real and important content time and time again. x
I recently read that part of Paper Towns to a friend. :)
Sometimes I'm frustrated by the things I care about too much - what other people think of me, or perhaps overemphasizing the importance of a grade - and surprised by what I can be completely indifferent to. This topic actually reminds me of the vlogbrothers video "Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh," which, upon watching it again, I suddenly realize you are in! Anywho, it's one of my favorite Thoughts from Places videos.
THIS. This has been on my mind a lot lately. Just because structures must be constructed and are not inherent in life, does not mean those structures cannot or should not have meaning in our lives. Yet it is important to be aware that if those structures are not working for us then we should change them, and can change them, because there is nothing inherently truthful about them. We must build the world in which we want to live.
Whenever one of your videos manages to get into my sub box I always watch it first no matter what other videos are there. Nice to know I an right about one thing, as this lovely video once again proves.
I simply love this way of thinking. That is exactly what I am trying to tell people when they ask me why I am always so positive and happy, no matter what happens. It is because I choose to care about and take more notice of the bright side of things. :)
fantastic video as always Rosianna, i love how you just sit there, with your cup of tea, looking incredible, and talk about whats on your mind and i sit at my computer, mesmerised and enjoying the video.
I really enjoyed this video. Once again it reinforces the idea that we get to chose what we care about, and that those choices help define us in our own eyes as well as in others.
Every time I am in a queue and there's a person who's obviously really stressed out, muttering to themselves, sighing, I can't help but wonder why they are so stressed. Are they genuinely stressed out because they have to catch a train or something? Or do they just think everything's going too slow? Is their intention to make everyone else as stressed out as they are? I used to get stressed in queues, but then I just.. stopped. It's so pointless. I can't affect it, so why make let it affect me?
Love this video and all your videos, Rosi. I love how you can just sit in front of a camera with a cup of tea and capture an audience. In my humble opinion, that is what YouTube is about. You're an amazing story teller and you looked amazing, too, in this video :)
Kinda appropriate that one of the suggested videos on the side of this one is John's "Participatory Geometry" which ends with him saying "Caring about stuff binds us to the other people who care about that stuff and that creates the communities that make life worth living". Great video :)
Have you read David Foster Wallace's Kenyon College Commencement Speech? Some of the exact same things you are talking about are brought up in it. An amazing read.
Great video. I think about this all the time. I know people who stress out about really inconsequential things and freak out about waiting in queues or having trouble with their bank or whatever. I tend to just keep calm and not let it bother me. I have learned that its better to stand in a really long queue and eventually get what you want than just give up and walk away empty handed. Aghh I could talk about this for hours, maybe I'll go, geek and out and write an essay about it :)
Great video. I think about this all the time. I know people who stress out about really inconsequential things and freak out about waiting in queues or having trouble with their bank or whatever. I tend to just keep calm and not let it bother me. I have learned that its better to stand in a really long queue and eventually get what you want than just give up and walk away empty handed. Aghh I could talk about this for hours, maybe I'll go and geek and out and write an essay about it :)
I think that shows how some of us are in our society. We take so much for granted, we see queues we get annoyed, we forget how amazing it is we can get food easily. This video really was so good and I'd like to write a really good comment but IT'S SO HOT and I can't think straight. But i do think your choice to care about that woman caring sort of shows that you care about humanity. You care when we're idiots & you care for those who often are forgotten in our society. And that's commendable.
I actually do think those self service machines are terrible, meaning that the supermarket can employ less folk, although I don't like the social awkwardness that cold and clinical supermarkets bring as you're walking up to the check, out muttering a quiet hello.
Some people feel entitled to absolute instantaneous everything and total convenience in our modern world (whatever than means) that I guess people have forgotten patience. I know I have at times, like how I can hardly get through more than ten pages of a book without feeling squirmy and distracted. You're completely right Rosianna. And even the people who go out of their way to appear as if they don't care care about not caring, so they might as well try caring about something useful.
Norbert Elias. I'm writing an essay about this. It's too bad I can't reference youtube videos as reliable sources.
ThatBookGirl 1 month ago
Apologies if I'm playing Master Of The Obvious here, but I don't know whether "the things we choose to care about" is idiomatic to American English. From your description, I think you understood.
When someone says "the things you have to do..." ("... for your kids", "... to get a license", "... to get elected", etc.), it's highlighting, usually with a sense of irritation or exasperation, some necessity that seems irrelevant, excessive, or ridiculous.
VeryEvilPettingZoo 2 months ago
(cont)
From your descirption of that show (which I saw, but years ago), I would assume that the president's use of that expression, and the despair in his voice, were showing his reaction to the absurd contrast between the moral gravity of deciding to assassinate/execute a foriegn leader versus the legal triviality of the geographic location where that would take place.
Again, from the whole context of your video, it seems you that understood perfectly well. This was a "just in case" comment.
VeryEvilPettingZoo 2 months ago
Does anyone know the apparent reference Rosianna is making at the end of this video with her whispered "Swing and repeat." ?
I really do think that Rosianna and Hank and John Green and certain others are a sort of higher order of person that have the ability to catalyze/make others better, brighter, more compassionate. I'm not sure if there should be a name for it, and maybe there is.
NewEnglandCivitas 2 months ago in playlist Uploaded videos 2
@NewEnglandCivitas I thought she was saying "swings and roundabouts" but I might be wrong.
InfiniteBox 2 months ago
I'm glad that this video keeps popping back up in my subscription page.
Celtise 3 months ago
emotionalism...its almost a class thing...not everyone is lucky enough to go to college, expand their brain and look at the bigger picture, just appreciate the fact that you have the frame of mind to look bigger
theflorgeormix 3 months ago in playlist Technology Innovators
Rosianna you should know better, she kept saying ridiculous because there was a Bogart in Tesco!!!!
dannyjam 4 months ago
when I heard you talking about the woman in the supermarket queue after reading the title of the video I was almost sure you we're gonna talk about david foster wallace's speech at that graduation in stanford, because he makes really a similar point, about being able 'educate' your choices, to 'educate' your behaviour. Also sooo agree with what you were saying about doing English at Uni and going from seeing the world as this artificially construction and realising that well, it's what it is..
madalenafa 4 months ago
Let's not jump to judge the woman annoyed by the line too quickly or too much. We don't know her situation. Yes, it's ridiculous to be annoyed about having to wait a few minutes in a line at a grocery store, but none of us are perfect and she could have been having a horrible day, or late, or whatever. Let's get off our high horses, because none of us are actually righteous enough to never let stupid things bother us. when was the last time a video took too long to buffer and you were annoyed?
newenglandchick95 4 months ago
@newenglandchick95 As I said in the video, she might have been having a bad day.
missxrojas 4 months ago 5
i hate people like that woman. you should have cussed her out.
chillipeanuts 4 months ago
Ridiculous, living in a first world country!
Many people are just spoilt and will never appreciate the things around them.
LeClassics 4 months ago
I care too much about everything. But I don't want to be passive. It bothers me when people don't care about anything.
doodlehh 4 months ago
I'm surprised at 0:10 that Rosianna would choose the "self-service"/automated/job-displacing line in at a market. But then, I’ve always thought there should be a ‘Ned Ludd Business School and/or Department of Economics’ ; there’s more merit to ‘Luddite Theory’ than many suppose. Kinda Nationalist/'home team'/'Love (& employ) Thy Neighbor'.
Rosianna here is more discursive than usual, though enthralling as ever.
NewEnglandCivitas 4 months ago
Yet again you have given me something to mull over... Have you been talking about mythologising in the arts (music, literature, film, etc.) at university..? Everything is a construct, nothing is 'natural'..? Very Rowland Barthes esque. We choose to believe what we know is fictitious because where would the fun be if we didn't let ourselves be fooled?
RyanMurphyTube 4 months ago
I love the idea of doing your wedding readings from a novel or other some such book instead of a religious text! I'd never thought of that before, but it's brilliant, and I am going to steal it should I ever get married. :)
MissTracyLord 4 months ago
I think its definitely a more profound and more empowering way to imagine it, naturally opposing this whole idea that we are limited by our circumstances. Reading the last page of Paper Towns at your friend's wedding sounds interesting! It would be interesting to see how you would link it to the life and their marriage :)
nadinel22 4 months ago
<3
KsEpyroslasher 4 months ago
Funny how after all that she said, two of the most 'liked' comments are about Tea and her Looks.
greatersteve 4 months ago
The way Society determines or some how limits our choices and punishes us when we choose from outside those limits ,is what makes" the things we choose to care about" the reason to our misery.
Mlovesfashion62 4 months ago
Got yourself a subscriber...ROCK ON X
xXSabzyKababzyXx 4 months ago
Loved this, i waited for my homework to print and listened to her ramble on about such a pointless thing which i found, as i do with most things, highly amusing.
And im 15 LOL
xXSabzyKababzyXx 4 months ago
Sit on my face?
JoeLad9 4 months ago
I am British and i have a confession:
I...
Prefer...
Coffee! D: IM SORRY!!
MrJammieman346 4 months ago
I usually don't comment just because I don't belive I can articulate anything worthy of your videos, but I just wanted to say that I thought this was lovely. And thoughful. And reflective, and poignant, and very very good.
CallForgotten 4 months ago
i like how this is all about what is going on inside your thoughts and stuff and there is an ad for a mindless action movie starring mark Wahlberg.
1235788888 4 months ago
The world is so self involved. After living in Kenya for several years, I see everything that I have in Canada. But people around me always seem to be bitching about little things, like having to wait in a line for five minutes before getting lunch. I would rather care about friends, academics, pretty much anything that actually matters a few minutes later.
TheElevatorMusician 4 months ago
this really meant alot to me today. thanx
balanchinesmuse91 4 months ago
How do you always make such intelligent videos? It seems like you can just turn on a camera and spew interesting, meaningful thoughts. I admire that you can do that so much. I aspire to be able to be as thoughtful and well-spoken as you. <3
kira902k 4 months ago
cool video subscribed before it was over : )
thebrownmistify 4 months ago
Lovely video.
And I have your shirt. :)
sallybmoore 4 months ago
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sallybmoore 4 months ago
I definitely think it makes sense.
I find this to be one of those things that are extremely difficult to balance. Choices about caring or not caring... Always complicated.
nicciweasley 4 months ago
I needed to hear this today.
Thank you, it was lovely.
halzahri 4 months ago
Wonderful video!
I've finally started watching The West Wing, after meaning to for years. It's fantastic.
Turambar88 4 months ago
This is actually something I've been trying to practice too: letting things just roll off my back. I think it's a matter of pride too: you feel justified to feel angry, frustrated or whatever. I'm always surprised when I manage to let things that usually would make my blood boil, just slide by. You really have more control over these things than you'd think.
Spinelet360 4 months ago
fantastic. favourited.
samanthak2205 4 months ago
I've realized that one of the most important skills I need to learn in life is knowing when to yield to opposition/trouble/bother and when to be firm.
I remember reading about Daoism in 6th grade and thinking how silly it is for people to just go with the flow all the time. But now I see the point of relaxing, being the water that always follows the path of least resistance. Yet sometimes I've got to put my foot down and stand up for whatever-it-is. A curious balance indeed; we're all learning.
odddialect 4 months ago
maybe the queue was a boggart.
paranoidgoldfish 4 months ago
This video comes at a perfect time, because im seriously considering quitting the field hockey team at my school just because the coach is so ridiculous and clearly not dedicated to the team and doesnt play for no reason to the point where today she didnt even make eye contact with me and its not worth all the negative energy and i dont want to be an angry or an upset person, i want to be happy and i have to choose not to care about something thats taking away from the positivity in my life.
journeytoyesterday 4 months ago
Posse Comitatus, one of the absolute best episodes of the West Wings. And a great jumping off point for a wonderful conversation.
cptrichall 4 months ago
I talk about this all the time, especially in the context of fandoms (though, as you said, it is a lot bigger than that). If you want to continue loving a fandom, but something happens that you don't like, just choose not to care about it. It doesn't sound possible, but it really is.
25butterbeers 4 months ago
Were you drinking tea or coffee? Yes, I do agree with you. The things i care about does say a lot about me, which is why i try not to always let people know what I care about. Do you do the same thing?
frenzymania11 4 months ago
but we don't get to choose the people we care about, do we?
TheZstar33 4 months ago 3
@TheZstar33 I don't know. I wonder.
missxrojas 4 months ago 8
@missxrojas I'm leaning towards no. If I'd had the choice I would have saved myself a hell of a lot of pain by not caring for the wrong person.
leapoffaith20 4 months ago
lovely (as usual)!
just wanted to say i harbour a deep love and appreciation for your tardis-blue nail polish :)
SocrateSoul 4 months ago
That is possibly my one of my fav west wing quotes love this vid :-)
clover13x 4 months ago
This is a really good video. I love Jed Bartlet. (**favorites**)
treehuggr089 4 months ago
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TennantJunkie1993 4 months ago
David Tennant likes The West Wing. It's his favorite show.
TennantJunkie1993 4 months ago
@TennantJunkie1993 I always knew he and I were meant for one another.
missxrojas 4 months ago 34
@missxrojas Really? Besides The West Wing, How else do you find him the perfect R.I. for you?
TennantJunkie1993 4 months ago
Your thoughts and detailed analysis of relating the most mundane of events to grand, thought provoking ideas is what I love about your videos.
You are a master of combining words skilfully together with ideas. If you wrote a book, I would definitely buy it.
Tempusaeternumest 4 months ago
Perhaps the lady in your queue was practicing her boggart spells?
That's not a very good response to what is a very thoughtful video - you put it all so well. What we choose to care about defines who we are, who we're with, and how we see the world. It's not what's right or wrong, but who you are? Definitely.
glassisland 4 months ago
"This is Water" by David Foster Wallace (aka his 2005 Kenyon College commencement address) talks about exactly what you are talking about! About choosing what to care about, right down to supermarket lines and grocery shopping! I hope you've read it.
dani0720 4 months ago
@dani0720 I have read it! I said this below but I really think I subconsciously plagiarised. Whoops.
missxrojas 4 months ago
@missxrojas not plagiarised...paraphrased! haha. No, you took his ideas and applied him to your own life which is awesome. It was a very thoughtful video. and the whole point of the speech is that these trivial things are actually immensely important things we struggle with every day.
dani0720 4 months ago
I love this video because it's like you created it from the ideas in my head. These are things that I think about a lot. I'm glad you made it. I've been in a literary theory class this semester, and it pulls apart the structure and the reasons behind everything that we do and are. At first it made everything seem so pointless and arbitrary, but I kind of got over it and started trying to use the things I'm learning to improve the structure and work with/in it better.
Cassiestarglimmer 4 months ago
This was the video I needed today.
booksclevahness 4 months ago
I remember waiting in line at the post office to mail a package right before Christmas...there was a really long line, and people were getting so angry that the line was moving so slowly...I actually turned around to the lady who was complaining behind me and said "it's all our faults, really...we are the ones who waited until the last minute to mail our packages"...it's easier to blame others instead of thinking how we can improve ourselves...as my friends says...1st world problems.
hb2578 4 months ago 2
First, The West Wing is AWESOME! Favourite show ever, hands down.
Secondly, I find that whenever I'm muttering about something that is slightly irritating (although I do hope that when I do it is at least a tiny bit justified), that I'm only doing that because I know that its a trivial matter, and not something actually worth caring about enough to voice loudly.
MsPurpleMusic 4 months ago
I love the West Wing! :) I was just watching that episode the other day. That line definitely stuck with me as well.
orangestoneleaf 4 months ago
that's very well put. i also notice things people care about and things i care about. I'm studying International Development and it really puts into perspective the various things people care about and what is really important. but i guess, i would say, as someone who pretends to care about nothing, that it's not exactly the healthiest thing and that caring and the ability to express yourself and what you care about is important, no matter what you care about.
VictoriaER 4 months ago
It is a tragedy that we have two supermarkets right next to each other, but not for that reason.
Gnoxxic 4 months ago 14
@Gnoxxic right!
missxrojas 4 months ago
Rosianna, for once - you may have gone too deep for me. But I love the West Wing reference : )
What I do say is - right now - I care about Tardistacular - please update! - so excited about tomorrow...
JoelJoel321 4 months ago
i guess i fall into the far too apathetic category. it is very very difficult to make me upset, but that's not to say that i don't necessarily care. It's just that my opinion may be no more right or wrong the opposing opinion and realizing this i allow others to make choices and be happy as i can be happy either way. perhaps this is not always the right approach but how can one know?
Dleger13 4 months ago
Very good video! I don't know what else to say, because you put it so well. So I'll just say that I agree :)
Invincible117 4 months ago
I totally agree. I've always noticed this at school, where I've never really fitted in. Some of my peers put importance on things that I don't care about and then they're outraged that I don't think it's as significant as they do.
AnAbundanceOfKathryn 4 months ago
I totally agree. I've always noticed this at school, where I've never really fitted in. Some of my peers put importance on things that I don't care about and then they're outraged that I don't think it's as significant as they do.
AnAbundanceOfKathryn 4 months ago
Thanks for making these great videos.
theycallmeluz 4 months ago
You're horribly pretentious????!!!??? Also, your hair looks amazing ...
nicholas9999 4 months ago
I've reached the point that I have nothing to comment on in your videos because you put it all so perfectly. I love looking at what people choose to care about because it does define you as a person - and there's not always a right or a wrong answer. Eg should one care more about the dying planet or the people dying of hunger? :/ I have also been experiencing a much more pedestrian version of what you're talking about while packing for Uni for the first time. What to leave, what to take...
barefootfiona 4 months ago
@barefootfiona yeah I was thinking of that too -- the fact that it's not necessarily a right/wrong situation.
missxrojas 4 months ago
@missxrojas cool beans.
barefootfiona 4 months ago
omg i just noticed - your hair is so long!
hellotwat 4 months ago
@hellotwat I've been trying to grow it for aaaaaages :)
missxrojas 4 months ago
The things we choose to care about really speak wonders about who you are as a person. You could care about the mundane crap that bothers everyone or you could care about the stuff that only matters to you and other people you know.
Voldey 4 months ago
OMG LOVE your accent!
instantwagner 4 months ago
I really appreciate you...as random or slightly creepy that may sound hehe
MadameTeresa 4 months ago
west wing quote! plus1000 cool points
definitionofself 4 months ago
west wing quote! +1000 cool points
definitionofself 4 months ago
@missxrojas This idea of "choosing" to care about certain things reminded me of one of John's Thoughts From Places video from London/Edinburgh that you were actually in. It's really an interesting concept, and I just want to thank you for making real and important content time and time again. x
juliaforyourthoughts 4 months ago
so wonderfully english
Crystalyze14 4 months ago
I can't believe you just let that woman be harassed by a bogart.
TheOMGiraffe 4 months ago 6
This video really reminded me of a lyric in a Mumford & Sons song: "Where you invest your love, you invest your life."
rhetoricallyyours 4 months ago
I love that fact that you referenced the west wing. Many of my most beloved quotes arrive from that series.
TheWoWweight 4 months ago
I recently read that part of Paper Towns to a friend. :)
Sometimes I'm frustrated by the things I care about too much - what other people think of me, or perhaps overemphasizing the importance of a grade - and surprised by what I can be completely indifferent to. This topic actually reminds me of the vlogbrothers video "Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh," which, upon watching it again, I suddenly realize you are in! Anywho, it's one of my favorite Thoughts from Places videos.
go1711 4 months ago
THIS. This has been on my mind a lot lately. Just because structures must be constructed and are not inherent in life, does not mean those structures cannot or should not have meaning in our lives. Yet it is important to be aware that if those structures are not working for us then we should change them, and can change them, because there is nothing inherently truthful about them. We must build the world in which we want to live.
goingforthegold 4 months ago
Whenever one of your videos manages to get into my sub box I always watch it first no matter what other videos are there. Nice to know I an right about one thing, as this lovely video once again proves.
seurat2 4 months ago
Such an interesting way of looking at things. "The things we choose to care about make us." I love the way you think Rosianna!
ginnymp 4 months ago
I simply love this way of thinking. That is exactly what I am trying to tell people when they ask me why I am always so positive and happy, no matter what happens. It is because I choose to care about and take more notice of the bright side of things. :)
Kiranja 4 months ago
I love your voice. It sounds so wise, calm and soothing.
etheriaa 4 months ago
Rational, rational, astrology, rational, rational... :D
nodst3r 4 months ago
this is the best
kat123atake 4 months ago
fantastic video as always Rosianna, i love how you just sit there, with your cup of tea, looking incredible, and talk about whats on your mind and i sit at my computer, mesmerised and enjoying the video.
nukemz 4 months ago
fantastic video Rosianna, you sit there with a cup of tea and talk, and its mesmerising, you truly are my favourite british youtuber.
nukemz 4 months ago
I really enjoyed this video. Once again it reinforces the idea that we get to chose what we care about, and that those choices help define us in our own eyes as well as in others.
NickGreyden 4 months ago
Every time I am in a queue and there's a person who's obviously really stressed out, muttering to themselves, sighing, I can't help but wonder why they are so stressed. Are they genuinely stressed out because they have to catch a train or something? Or do they just think everything's going too slow? Is their intention to make everyone else as stressed out as they are? I used to get stressed in queues, but then I just.. stopped. It's so pointless. I can't affect it, so why make let it affect me?
Vredesbarn 4 months ago
I care about whether or not you spill your tea! And Slytherin winning the house cup on Pottermore.
JoHack 4 months ago
Love this video and all your videos, Rosi. I love how you can just sit in front of a camera with a cup of tea and capture an audience. In my humble opinion, that is what YouTube is about. You're an amazing story teller and you looked amazing, too, in this video :)
Gryffindor004 4 months ago
Kinda appropriate that one of the suggested videos on the side of this one is John's "Participatory Geometry" which ends with him saying "Caring about stuff binds us to the other people who care about that stuff and that creates the communities that make life worth living". Great video :)
Katharine257 4 months ago 2
Have you read David Foster Wallace's Kenyon College Commencement Speech? Some of the exact same things you are talking about are brought up in it. An amazing read.
ViaTheBurbs 4 months ago 2
@ViaTheBurbs I have, I probably subconsciously plagiarised him horribly in this video!
missxrojas 4 months ago
@missxrojas Cryptomnesia :DD
Tortak39 4 months ago
Great video. I think about this all the time. I know people who stress out about really inconsequential things and freak out about waiting in queues or having trouble with their bank or whatever. I tend to just keep calm and not let it bother me. I have learned that its better to stand in a really long queue and eventually get what you want than just give up and walk away empty handed. Aghh I could talk about this for hours, maybe I'll go, geek and out and write an essay about it :)
PrettyFascinated 4 months ago
As someone said: "Poise is the act of raising your eyebrows instead of the roof.
TWITfromURANUS 4 months ago
Great video. I think about this all the time. I know people who stress out about really inconsequential things and freak out about waiting in queues or having trouble with their bank or whatever. I tend to just keep calm and not let it bother me. I have learned that its better to stand in a really long queue and eventually get what you want than just give up and walk away empty handed. Aghh I could talk about this for hours, maybe I'll go and geek and out and write an essay about it :)
PrettyFascinated 4 months ago
you are so intelligent :) you're awesome ^___^
iliveinatardis 4 months ago
Wonderful video. She looks beautiful.
DaleMurph 4 months ago 50
I think that shows how some of us are in our society. We take so much for granted, we see queues we get annoyed, we forget how amazing it is we can get food easily. This video really was so good and I'd like to write a really good comment but IT'S SO HOT and I can't think straight. But i do think your choice to care about that woman caring sort of shows that you care about humanity. You care when we're idiots & you care for those who often are forgotten in our society. And that's commendable.
alucidminute 4 months ago
As Rita said in the last episode of Doctor Who *cough*TARDIStacular*cough*
"We're British, it's what we're good at, making tea and tutting."
flaziola 4 months ago 52
If we're annoyed in a queue, all we Bristish do is tut.
benjiappleton 4 months ago
@benjiappleton As Michael McIntyre says, 'think prick, say 'tut.' :)
Gryffindor004 4 months ago
@Gryffindor004 that was where it was from! *facepalm*
benjiappleton 4 months ago
I actually do think those self service machines are terrible, meaning that the supermarket can employ less folk, although I don't like the social awkwardness that cold and clinical supermarkets bring as you're walking up to the check, out muttering a quiet hello.
IncidentalShine 4 months ago
Queuing, now there is a true British pass time!
Ironballs69 4 months ago
Some people feel entitled to absolute instantaneous everything and total convenience in our modern world (whatever than means) that I guess people have forgotten patience. I know I have at times, like how I can hardly get through more than ten pages of a book without feeling squirmy and distracted. You're completely right Rosianna. And even the people who go out of their way to appear as if they don't care care about not caring, so they might as well try caring about something useful.
suchaspacecadet 4 months ago
Thank you n_n
MyInterwebs 4 months ago
If you carry a book a long queue is an opportunity. The only thing you really get to choose is which hill you want to die on.
russwelday 4 months ago
Another stubborn Leo right here, I can relate. :)
MissEmziWemzie 4 months ago
I'm speechless at how amazing this was. It feels like you've said everything I've felt about this but haven't been able to articulate properly. <3
IllogicalOccurrences 4 months ago 2
i really liked this video.
fatboyrocker 4 months ago
6th!
MarvelRules123 4 months ago
:)
AnnabellaTS 4 months ago
wooo
scharaboosh 4 months ago
second :D
judyandthecat 4 months ago
second :D
judyandthecat 4 months ago
I like how you think too much.
tannewton 4 months ago