earth quakes (borrowing from myself)

October 18, 2006
shifting rocks

it's been a while since. have i learned anything?

i learned that one should unplug appliances in the event of a power outage. that all the time in the world cannot make you finish your work. that not sleeping can actually make one gain weight (surprise). that i can still lose weight. that i can still read. that i lost the ability to dance. and that i can barely sing.

that when one thing in your life makes a turn for the good, something's gotta give. then everything else follows.

that growing up entails a grueling and painful hating and breaking off of filial ties. that it means becoming and realizing that you wish you belonged to another tree, but not really.

that when it comes to an abundance of money, you do the opposite of what you would normally do.

that you can't be a lazyass forever. because old people who are lazy get fat, ugly, grumpy, and old.

that a pile of papers is not the worst thing in the world.

that people will continue to despise you in spite of your best efforts to be a saint. that it's normal. that it's not okay, but it's nobody's fault.

people are people.

that in spite of spending your entire life trying to be different, you're still no different from everybody else.

that i've probably changed little, if not at all, over the past ten thousand years. and that people are still surprised by me.

And people still surprise me.

Truth hurts. And it doesn't change.