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Posted in The Funny.
Remember when you were a kid, saving your allowance to buy up the latest Atari 200 game or whatever whiz-bang gadget you saw in the toy store window? Remember the joy you felt when you finally had enough to walk into that store, plop down your hard earned cash and walk away with the treasure? It was such a great feeling of joy that you earned something. You earned it and it felt good. I think as a society it’s something we’ve almost all but forgotten. Credit cards and easy financing have made us all into instat gratification junkies unwilling to wait even for a little while for the latest iPod, fancy pair of jeans or even a house. It’s ruined our economy but far worse I think it’s carved out a giant chunk of our collective soul. When we can get almost anything we desire at any time (within reason) it stops us from looking at the future and the bigger picture as a whole. It keeps us in a state of always paying off the things we already have instead of planning for the things and lives we want. It subjugates us as slaves to our own knee-jerk consumerism. We toil away paying back our debt but never feeling that old childhood joy since by the time the thing we bought is paid for it’s more than likely a forgotten relic or it’s been so long since we got it that we can’t even connect the two acts in our mind. I think a return to simpler living and saving for the things we want would do everyone a world of good. Maybe not for the economy in the short term but in the long term I can’t see how people buying what they can afford could be a bad thing at all. By earning the things we want before we get them maybe we can regain a little bit of that joy we felt as kids and make everyone just a little bit happier.
Posted in Life.
I am quite happy/giddy/relieved tonight. It’s finally over and the good guys won.
Posted in Politics.
e•phem•er•al |əˈfem(ə)rəl|
adjective
lasting for a very short time : fashions are ephemeral.
TEMPORARY.
• Having a very short life cycle.
There’s something I’ve always asked for from Twitter and that’s a feature that would only save my last N number of tweets. You see I don’t think that permanence on the internet is actually good for some things. 140 character snapshots of a person’s life are extraordinarily context sensitive and when taken out of context can do more harm than good when trying to re-construct a persona from an outsiders perspective. Blog posts can be seen as the same thing if looked at from a certain angle. In my case they’re generally off the cuff snapshots of my mind at any given slice of time. The process of writing the post often times can change my perspective on a situation rendering even the post I’ve just written obsolete and no longer relevant to who I am. Even this post will have that effect on me. I’m certain of it. I used to tell people the best blog would only have one post. The latest.
I love blogs and blogging. It’s great fun to have your own little slice of the internet that’s wholly yours. But sometimes when you use it for things like group therapy or venting or anything that shows you in a transitional period it can be used against you down the road and that can be quite dangerous. Especially if you’re honest and human in your voice because we’re all far from perfect.
I have archived all my personal posts from the past few months for my own personal vault and will continue to write about myself and the struggles I’m going through but from now on they will all have an expiration date. When I no longer think they’re relevant to who I am or what my situation is I’ll archive them and take them down. We all grow as people every day in our knowledge and experiences of the world and while I think it can be an interesting journey down memory lane it’s a journey best experienced alone. This is my perspective at least and since it’s my corner of the internet that’s my reality and my choice.
Posted in General BS.
Took a few days to go down to San Diego to go to Sea World and the zoo with some friends. Great time! Swam with some beluga whales and saw a few pandas and shot 1300 photos in less than 48 hours. Here’s a sneak peek until I can get them processed. Keep an eye on a photo a day for the gems.
Posted in General BS.
a photo a day