Plants+cooking=people?

Junior year is almost over already and I still have no idea what college I would want to go to, nor do I know what I really want to major in. My friends all seem pretty oriented at this point and I honestly feel quite low because of my undecided choices. My friends said I should talk to my counselor. She said, "...in the future You should be doing what You love to do." What do I enjoy doing?* Writing is pretty cool I guess. "Maybe she meant hobbies" is what my friends said.

The study of plants is botany. Botany has been around just as long as there were humans. The very first records of plant-based studies date all the way back to the Neolithic Revolution (at this
point writing had just begun to develop). These rudimentary studies done at that time were driven more by curiosity rather than need or benefit. However, the various health benefits humans know of today could not stay veiled forever. Research done for actual purpose appeared through Theophratus' (student of Aristotle) teachings in Ancient Athens, 350 B.C; most consider this the origin of modern botany.

The study of preparing food are culinary arts. Likewise, the need for food has always been around just as long as there were human. But the very first records of cooking date all the was back to the Middle Paleolithic Era (at this point hearths or stone ovens had just been created). Unlike botany, cooking has always been a luxury, hence the reason it is referred to as the arts. Art  is human expression; beyond defining a man for who he is.

The studies of human interaction is sociology. People have been doing this as soon as they pop out of the womb. The very first records logically would have appeared after Adam and his wife/gal-pal realized they were naked. Sociology is both like botany and culinary arts. To an individual some others are significant, while others appear to be just there. Like botany, a child doesn't realized the need for friends. The child creates relationships out of pure interest. The peer group the kid develops begins defining who he is. Eventually the kid becomes a teen, then a man, and all throughout the process of aging, the boy now adult, realizes friends are in fact like plants and Theopratus was right. He is now matured--a realized demand for and importance of others.

Sociology, culinary arts, and botany all sound pretty awesome to me. Its just too bad that you can't triple major in college. I think I'll just double major in culinary arts and botany--or maybe just music and botany. Eh, I think I'm just going to ask my friends, tomorrow.



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