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Rick and Morty is arguably the best animated show on air. It has three seasons and is already loved across the world. In fact, it has a Monopoly game made after it. It portrays the various adventures of the smartest man on earth, Rick, and his not so smart grandson Morty. Every episode is different and the duo cross galaxies and planets to do different things. The show uses the concept of infinite alternate universes. so, in a few episodes Ricks from other parallel universes meet and confront the main character- Rick C-137 - and often arrest him. the show relates a lot of its episodes to current events and entertainment. For example, one episode is based on The Purge (2013), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). the rapper LOGIC features in one episode. The latest episode, season 3 episode 3, is probably the best featuring rick turning himself into a pickle and surviving for a day while taking down a bank.    

mad max 

the purge

PICKLE RICK

SO WHAT MAKES THE SHOW FAMOUS?

The show implores hilarity in rick's adventures and innovation from the producer's -justin Roiland- mind. But for me, the best part about the show is the philosophy it gives to the viewers through quotes and inner meanings. 

Rick is the smartest person in the universe and not all of his quotes are funny or scientific. Rick's wife died very early when his daughter Beth was born, delving him into science. over the years his view on life has changed many times and e has often tried to commit suicide. He tells Morty, who wants to fall in love, that love is a chemical reaction which compels animals to breed. It hits hard and fades away leading one to be in a loveless marriage, much like Morty's parents'. 

Rick also talks about not caring for others' opinions and tells morty to take his opinion and shove it waaaaaay up his butthole. 

Not caring about others' opinions is the most important thing to do if you're about to do something new or different. Half the enthusiasm and motivation is lost when you pay heed to criticism. Several great thinkers and inventors were heavily criticised for their actions and creations but they never took heed and believed in themselves and went on to make a mark in history.

Rick also talks about mental growth and tells Morty on an alien island, that even though he is afraid and in a new place and the situations are intimidating and scary, charging them head on like a bull and meeting them face to face is how we grow as people. this is my favourite quote in the show. This shows us that we should love and cherish new situations, hardships and experience and not run away form them. We should boldly face them and brave them for that is how we grow as people.

Rick and Morty is a one-of-the kind tv show that is a must watch. it is, in my opinion, better than all other animated shows including The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Futurama, and Archer, amongst others. its funny, smart and different. 

imdb- 9.3/10

Hulu- 4.8/5

rotten tomatoes- 100%

leave bad habits behind

Leaving bad habits behind

 We all have bad habits and we all wish that we can quit them. But if we keep thinking 'I wish' and not 'I will', we can never break the bat. here are a few ways to reduce, if not stop bad habits:

1) Identify your problem:

If you're an alcoholic, accept it. If you're a drug addict, accept it proudly and say that you plan on ending this addiction to drugs or alcohol or any other vice. Tell your friends about your decision and your plan. 

DO NOT try to rationalise your problem by saying that you're just going to drink one glassier check your phone 10 times. 

2) Take active steps and incentives

Teach your garden how to weed it self. I've written a previous blog about it and for more depth, check It out.
incentives play with your mind and reward you for completing certain tasks. 
For example, if you're a smoker, set an incentive that if you don't smoke for a whole week, you will get an extra cigarette on the last day of the week.


The main problem with incentives, however, is the people are not alway honest to themselves and the incentives. 
To solve this, tell somebody to conduct the incentive plan.

3) Interventions, interventions and more interventions:

If you know anybody close to you who has a problem like alcoholism or drug addiction, stage an intervention.
Talk about how you feel about it and get a bunch of people close to the person whose to be spoken to and ask them also to say things about the problem.
Find the root problem of the addiction, be it peer pressure or pleasure and try solving it by calm talking and reassurance.
This is by far the most helpful thing to do for somebody who has a bad addiction.

Summing up

1) Accept your addictions and vices and get prepared to leave it
2) Get a hold of friends who are willing to help you
3) Set up incentives to make your plan work
4) Hold interventions for friends who are influenced by vices.

Work hard to play hard

Have you ever thought, "I'll do it tomorrow", and you never found time to do it because some activity always came up? I've been there several times and I'm tired of not completing my tasks and jobs. In fact, sometimes, blogging also becomes a chore when I don't have any idea in mind. 

After much thinking, I decided to compile a list to make stuff better for myself and you, the reader-

1) Stop procrastinating 

Procrastinating is the act of delaying important activities for a later time. It mostly never gets completed.
People often tell me to make schedules or timetables to solve my problem of excessive gaming but I never seem to be able to comply to the table. There is no consequence for failure to do a task. My class, during value education class, discussed ways to prevent procrastination and we concluded that that we can prevent it by:
a) Downloading app locks which completely block opening apps on mobile phones for a while 
b) Tell parents to make consequences for failure in doing tasks or chores 
c) Do the worst task in the morning, forcibly if possible so you're free for the rest of the day
d) Crave finishing work to be free so that time does not seem to go by so 'slowly'

2) Set incentives
I've previously written a blog on setting incentives
Example: If you finished a chapter of economics today, you get to play video games for 2 hours or go out for dinner. if not, then suffer the consequences (1.b) 

3) Get proper sleep

This is, as funny as it may be, a real problem! I cannot study half the time because I sleep at 12:30 am and wake up at 6:30 am for school. My best suggestion is to come home and sleep for an hour or if you can, sleep during English literature or another boring subject.

4) Be enthusiastic 

Ryan thinks studying is fun. Ryan is cool

Make studying fun. Use highlighters of all colours, make jokes out of the things you study and make acronyms or sing the words of the definition of 'national wealth'. This is really helpful and also helps you sing better in front of the public.

summing up 

a) Procrastinating sucks so always finish your work first then do your time pass and even if you don't get time to play, Always remember that you'll be the only one who finished homework.

"A stitch in time saves nine"

b) Make your garden weed itself by setting incentives for you to work at and consequences for failure.

c) Sleep well because if you can't be awake, the day is as good as wasted

"Sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite"

d) Enjoy studying. It is not as bad as it seems and the more you do it, the better you become. Studying harder a lot does not make you uncool or a nerd but it makes you rich.