Mr.Bergmann
Sophomore English II
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Benefits of Origami
Have you ever seen someone do origami and think to yourself that it looks stupid and time wasting? If so then I am here to prove you wrong by showing you the main reasons why origami is a good hobby to have. Origami can teach you many things, especially hand eye coordination. Aside from hand eye coordination, doing origami can massively improve on how you express your creativity. Besides these two benefits, doing origami can help you relax and stay calm during a stressful situation. Origami is believed to have originated in Japan, but not everyone agrees due to the fact that there is no concrete evidence, such as origami to back it up. The best speculation though is that it was created to help zen monks get into a meditative state. …show more content…
That is only about 37% of the entire population that can do origami. Which if you think about it, is a lot less people than it sounds. Over 4.5 billion people don’t know one of the easiest, and most fun ways to calm yourself down and sharpen your senses. Over 4.5 billion people don’t know the easiest, and probably the cheapest, way to keep yourself calm, or even decorate a room and give it life.
Origami is very good at teaching you how coordinate your hands and your eyes so that you can be more productive in doing everyday things. Improving your hand eye coordination can help you to do many things, like pretty much any sport where you have to use your hands. It can you to draw, so that whenever you do draw, you will not be drawing a squiggly line when you were meaning to draw a straight one. The way that it helps you to improve this is that in order to make, for instance, a crane look like it has a