Another year gone.
Well, it's here. Summer, that is. With graduation/moving out on Saturday, it seems closer than ever.
Yesterday I took a "personal" day. I just feel like college is sometimes...well...too social. I need my alone time, you know? So I actually went into the city by myself...and it was totally fine. I enjoyed it even. I ended up getting a ticket to see The Pirate Queen, which was alarmingly good, except for the fact that the music itself was sometimes anti-climactic. I wandered around all day. Took the metro down to Chelsea where I got rained on. It was OK though. I stopped in various Starbucks and drank, well, various grande-iced-caramel-macchiato-skim-milk-no-whipped-cream-pleases.
I people-watched a lot. And I had my trusty iPod as well. I had hours to kill before the show, so after hitting up Chelsea, I went back to 42nd and ordered an asian salad at McDonald's, just observing. Then, I went back to the metro station and did some more (it was pouring out...i'm not just boring).
I like to think of myself as someone with some sort of hope or faith. But yesterday, sitting in that station in Times Square, looking out the window at all the lights, I thought to myself "You know? The world is steadily declining. And there's really nothing that I can do about it because the common person doesn't seem to notice or care."
I hope that's not bad.
I mean, it's just that no other lifeform has such a complex social structure/uses as many resources as good old Homo sapiens, you know?...well maybe you don't. But anyway, from what I've gathered, it's basically because we have the capacity to do so. Our nervous systems are more advanced, and I think we've reached a bit of a climax with being able to consciously analyze thought and made decisions (rather than using "programmed" reflexes to defend ourselves, which is the purpose of the nervous system in it's primitive form).
So isn't it funny that nature itself has created all this? All the skyscrapers? The fashion "dos" and "don'ts"? ..and yet it will be the demise of an entire planet, which only developed in this way due to a miraculous chance? I just think it ironic that nature will destroy itself (and probably start over again for that matter).
I've battled with this idea all year, I think, but now it seems to be clear to me. What can possibly not be "natural?"...no seriously. Ask yourself. The things that we consider "manufactured" or "synthesized" are produced by a living organism. So how can that not be natural? Are we as humans so seperated from the rest of Life that we don't consider ourselves "nature" anymore? And if we are a part of nature, than everything we do must therefore be natural.
And all that from the shithole that is the Times Square metro station.
Yesterday I took a "personal" day. I just feel like college is sometimes...well...too social. I need my alone time, you know? So I actually went into the city by myself...and it was totally fine. I enjoyed it even. I ended up getting a ticket to see The Pirate Queen, which was alarmingly good, except for the fact that the music itself was sometimes anti-climactic. I wandered around all day. Took the metro down to Chelsea where I got rained on. It was OK though. I stopped in various Starbucks and drank, well, various grande-iced-caramel-macchiato-skim-milk-no-whipped-cream-pleases.
I people-watched a lot. And I had my trusty iPod as well. I had hours to kill before the show, so after hitting up Chelsea, I went back to 42nd and ordered an asian salad at McDonald's, just observing. Then, I went back to the metro station and did some more (it was pouring out...i'm not just boring).
I like to think of myself as someone with some sort of hope or faith. But yesterday, sitting in that station in Times Square, looking out the window at all the lights, I thought to myself "You know? The world is steadily declining. And there's really nothing that I can do about it because the common person doesn't seem to notice or care."
I hope that's not bad.
I mean, it's just that no other lifeform has such a complex social structure/uses as many resources as good old Homo sapiens, you know?...well maybe you don't. But anyway, from what I've gathered, it's basically because we have the capacity to do so. Our nervous systems are more advanced, and I think we've reached a bit of a climax with being able to consciously analyze thought and made decisions (rather than using "programmed" reflexes to defend ourselves, which is the purpose of the nervous system in it's primitive form).
So isn't it funny that nature itself has created all this? All the skyscrapers? The fashion "dos" and "don'ts"? ..and yet it will be the demise of an entire planet, which only developed in this way due to a miraculous chance? I just think it ironic that nature will destroy itself (and probably start over again for that matter).
I've battled with this idea all year, I think, but now it seems to be clear to me. What can possibly not be "natural?"...no seriously. Ask yourself. The things that we consider "manufactured" or "synthesized" are produced by a living organism. So how can that not be natural? Are we as humans so seperated from the rest of Life that we don't consider ourselves "nature" anymore? And if we are a part of nature, than everything we do must therefore be natural.
And all that from the shithole that is the Times Square metro station.