I feel like I'm dying.
Everyone wants to see me. Like, people are rearranging their holiday travel plans just to see me. My aunt and uncle from San Diego were planning on coming up to see my parents in a few days but they left early so they could see me tonight before I leave. We were going to meet up with my brothers on our way down to Seattle tomorrow but now they're coming to the island tomorrow morning to see me before I leave on the 1:40 ferry to the mainland. And tomorrow night my aunt, uncle and cousins from Snohomish are meeting with me, my parents and the lovely Miss Sarah for dinner. See why I feel like I'm dying? It's the whole "let's see this person before they're gone" kind of thing. And I know I'm just traveling for a few months buuuuuut... I still feel like I'm going to die before I get to see any of these people again. Don't get me wrong, I like seeing my family, but we're not really tight-knit like this... usually. Heck, I feel like I'm going to die before I even get to Edinburgh because all this feels rather surreal.
If I'm somehow a psychical being who can feel my own future*, keep this in mind that I knew I was going to die. And say nice things at my funeral afterparty. I want to be cremated by the way. And have my ashes sprinkled into the Pacific Ocean. You heard it here first, folks.
* I've been reading some time travel related books lately and one theory is that the future doesn't exist. How is this so? Well, first you must accept the idea that anything that we experience exists. For example, I just ate some Chinese food. I experienced eating that food, therefore it exists. So, we could easily say that anything we experience in the present exists because we're experiencing it now. And now. And now. Etc. The same can be said for the past. We experienced something in the present which turned into the past as seconds ticked on by. Therefore we've experienced the past because it was once the present. However, the future is different. By the time the future gets to us, it's the present. Therefore, we cannot experience the future if it is always the present. Since we cannot experience it, it does not exist.
ETA (10:00): Believe it or not, I just slipped on the stairs. And I think I bruised the bottom of my foot. Is that close enough to death to be considered a NDE? (Near Death Experience for those who are not as nerdy and into paranormal activity as I am!)
If I'm somehow a psychical being who can feel my own future*, keep this in mind that I knew I was going to die. And say nice things at my funeral afterparty. I want to be cremated by the way. And have my ashes sprinkled into the Pacific Ocean. You heard it here first, folks.
* I've been reading some time travel related books lately and one theory is that the future doesn't exist. How is this so? Well, first you must accept the idea that anything that we experience exists. For example, I just ate some Chinese food. I experienced eating that food, therefore it exists. So, we could easily say that anything we experience in the present exists because we're experiencing it now. And now. And now. Etc. The same can be said for the past. We experienced something in the present which turned into the past as seconds ticked on by. Therefore we've experienced the past because it was once the present. However, the future is different. By the time the future gets to us, it's the present. Therefore, we cannot experience the future if it is always the present. Since we cannot experience it, it does not exist.
ETA (10:00): Believe it or not, I just slipped on the stairs. And I think I bruised the bottom of my foot. Is that close enough to death to be considered a NDE? (Near Death Experience for those who are not as nerdy and into paranormal activity as I am!)