Nov 20, 2005 12:57
touch me and get cut.
The elderly dont't percieve time as we do, in a linear mathematical progression. It is more of an integrated version of the line, an area, a volume of experience.
So I thought this was a good idea, old people can't be wrong, right? But perhaps at such a young age it's more important to think about what's going on at the current time because without the foresight to complete the integration how can we know how current actions could affect the future?
I still think it's wrong to live saying "that happened then this happened then that was bad but then things were good" because we get hung up on extreme changes of direction in the progression while they don't have such a huge affect on the overall sum of experience.
Silly, but I need to think this way or else I will get stuck being a stupid jock at a stupid little university in a crummy town where everybody either has green hair and doesn't shower (but is the bad sort of green haired unshowered folk) or sits around with a can of keystone light going "yeah, dude."
Overall sum of experience overall sum of experience overall sum of experience because it wouldn't be any better anywhere else.
Tell me I'm wrong, tell me you're happy and I'll tell you that you're lying to yourself. I'll tell you that there is no such thing as happy in a world that rapes and kills and hurts for sport and that happiness comes from vapidity and intoxication.