1.08 Critical Thinking

I) When I sat on the floor for 10 minutes, facing the corner, and talking to no one, while groaning. It felt weird because I could sense people glaring at me, and I could predict, what they are probably saying. They would probably think I am crazy or have some mental issue because of the way I am behaving. It also felt very lonely because I wasn’t able to talk to anyone, and that’s when I started to think deeply about something. During the 10 minutes, the time seems to go slower, especially when you are thinking deeply. 5 minutes in real life seemed like 30 minutes, when I was in the corner. I learned that caring for Christopher must have been hard for the parents, and it is understandable that time to time, the parents could lose their temper.

The hardest thing for me was to make sure that different foods never touched on my plate. It was very hard because my parents served me dinner with all the foods mixed slightly together. It was very troublesome to separate them, and it took a lot of effort and time. My parents was giving me a weird face, when I was separating my food for 5 minutes, and they began to wonder why I was causing all the trouble to separate my food. I learned that Christopher Boone may be a neat freak, and it must be very sophisticated to live his life.
III) For 10 minutes, I tried to listen only to the white noise between stations on a radio, while not talking to anyone. During the 10 minutes, I tried to listen for the full duration, but I was getting dizzy from the white noise. The white noise irritated my head, and it was very uncomfortable for me, but it did drain the other sounds around me. When people saw me, they thought I was out of my mind, and they probably thought it was insane to listen to the white noises. I understand why Christopher listened to the white noise when he didn’t want to hear