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Annual Birthday Post . . .
(or What I've Learn in Three Score years plus seven)
#46) Life is hard. Trust me, life is hard for everyone.
[Admittedly, there are probably some people out there who were born with a golden ticket where life isn't all that hard for them. Still, that is likely a statistically insignificant number of people.]
One of the ways in which life is hard is ( Read more... ) -
Annual Birthday Post . . .
(or What I've Learn in Three Score years plus six)
Society has some pretty strong opinions on how you should live your life. Society doesn't know you. In addition, society doesn't give a damn about you. Ignore society and make your own choices. Society will tell you that you're wrong. Fuck those guys.
ME) I decided I didn't want to have children. I ( Read more... ) -
Things I’ve learned in 3 score years +5
#44) To reiterate something I've said before . . . There is only one reason why people lie. They lie to manipulate you. They lie to get you to do what they want you to do because they know you wouldn't do what they want if they told you the truth.
#45) Trying, In my small attempt to get certain people out of the conservative echo chamber they get ( Read more... ) -
Things I've learned in 3 score years +4
#40) Society is intrinsically unfair. It's just built that way. There will always be people who are given privileges and advantages that other people will never get. And some people who are subject to disadvantages that others are not. The concept of "all things being equal" cannot be applied to people's lives. It just cannot.
#41) There are over 7 ( Read more... ) -
Almost 40 things I've learned in 3 score and 3 years
#37) I used to think that rush-hour was the stupidest innovation of civilization. However technology has advanced and civilization has evolved. I've come to believe that rush-hour is only the second stupidest aspect of civilization.
These days huge office buildings where people are required to gather daily, at the same time and same place each day ( Read more... ) -
30+ things I've learned in 3 score and 1 years
#35) touch is the most fundamental of the senses. it is the first one to develop. the one sense that can not be turned off. the sense that centers in us rather than externally ( Read more... ) -
FBT (about last Thursday)
one summer during college I worked for a gas company in Lowell. nothing interesting, just sitting around all night in this big old drafty build, taking down readings off meters and making sure nothing went wrong. still, one day something did ( Read more... ) -
30+ things I've learned in 6 decades
#33) If a person grows up feeling unsafe, then later in life finds a place or circumstance wherein they do feel safe, that place will take on for them a significance far outstripping almost anything else in their life ( Read more... ) -
Katy and Zach's Wedding Toast
we all know how Katy has a habit of taking in strays. she has a kind heart like that. we also know that if one of her strays is too difficult to get along with, has so many problems that no one else will take them in, Katy is more than likely to adopt them herself. just because she cannot stand for anything she cares about to be unwanted. uncared ( Read more... ) -
ruth
many times over the last several months I’ve felt the urge to be ruthless. the need to smack down those without caring or compassion. and possibly, an excitement at the anticipation of the failure of those same uncaring persons ( Read more... )