What the hell is the big deal with having a new Halloween costume every year? I'm sorry is it not entertaining enough for you? Whose costume is it, again? I'll take a two-year old costume over an ill-conceived-on-the-day-of-Halloween costume any day.

Try writing the word "community" in cursive. Its annoying. So is writing "Egypt". Try it!

You'd think that eventually words like community, with useless length (since there's no word "comm" that could hypothetically be substituted instead) will eventually be phased out by a society that increasingly favors brevity and functionality of the written (these days TYPED) word in communication.

Why is it that being unhappy is so passe? Despite the fact that everyone is continually chasing their dreams, repeatedly unhappy with jobs, tired with this or that, buying a new something, what is so fearfully taboo about just being unhappy?

Why is it a dirty little secret that we or friends or family members are in counseling or taking medication? Being that 50% of marriages end in divorce these days, it shouldn't be so surprising anyway...yet its some skeleton that needs stay in the closet, as if people might be offended if they found out you were depressed, cause HEY, maybe its their fault, maybe you're unhappy with THEM. Is that it?

Vanilla gets a bad rap. Its crap. I'm tired of it. I tell people one of my favorite ice creams is Breyer's Vanilla Bean, and of course the thought is "oh, weird, how bland, whats to like about vanilla?" Since when did vanilla become synonymous with no flavor? Just cause its white doesn't mean its flavorless. Vanilla yogurt is different cause that stuff tastes like NOTHING. They should call it tofu flavor. But seriously. Try vanilla bean. Tell me it doesn't taste like anything. Tell me its bland. Cause its not. Why do they sell vanilla flavoring in little bottles? Smell that stuff- its awesome. Why do they make vanilla Coke, which clearly TASTES vanilla-y compared to normal Coke? Vanilla is a FLAVOR, and its flippin SWEET. Get off its back.

How do YOU make YOUR life NOT about YOU? Is that even possible? Is it possible, as a naturally egocentric human being, to ever be completely selfless, in an action or as a person? I think the only people that can truly answer that are those that have jumped in front of a bullet for someone...but even then, is that action out of some inner desire to save the person because you'd be sad if they were gone, because YOU care about them? Would you take a bullet for a stranger, or an enemy??

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So I realized recently, time has made a full shift. Its been changing sure, over the course of my life, and I think the first shift was really when I realized how short a year was when I was in college. But it stayed mostly the same, of course speeding up over those four years. But in the past couple years, its continued to speed up, to where its shifted to another time-frame altogether I think. A year is no longer this period of time that it once was. It no longer feels the same length or encompasses the same period of my life or holds the same weight or significance that it once did.

Time is almost to the point where minutes have replaced what seconds were to me as a child, in my current mental schema of time frames. An hour is like 15 minutes used to be. A day, like a couple hours as a child. A month goes by as a fast as a week did as a child. A year is like maybe a season. A year is no longer this seemingly infinite time space in which I exist, its simply the next chunk of time in my life I have to plan what I want to do in my life, and before I know it its gone only to have another in its place. I mean, its 2007 already!!! I still remember being amazed that the nineties, which encompassed so much of my life and had such significance, were coming to a close to usher in a WHOLE NEW CENTURY, and this decade feels like its almost over. Mentally, I feel comfortable with it being about 2004, maybe 2005- anything later than that makes me think "when did YOU get here already??"

Incredible. This is what it feels like to get older. Im curious how it is for someone my parents' age (parents feel free to chime in) or my grandparents age, you know? As it is, I feel like the weeks go by so fast I hardly have time to take stock of my time for the week- when I reach middle age, will time be flying by so fast that I can barely hold on as the wind rushes by faster and faster, and at some point I let go and fly off and everything fades to black? Well I imagine not :), but I sure have some adjusting to do before then if time intends on continuing to speed up at this rate...

Does it make sense to think that, if Time Travel is or ever will be possible, we would already know, because someone would have travelled back to our time or a time before ours, and it would have been documented and recounted? Or would we have dismissed it as being crazy? Or does not only Time Travel exist but the ability to wipe our memories, or perhaps the ability to be invisible or some sort of unaltering third party silent observer that goes unnoticed?