The ideas of adult and mature are so overrated. Usually when you get told to "grow up" its because you're making a joke or acting juvenile. Is that so bad? Adult is boring, no fun, serious. Becoming adult means losing that playful mischieviousness you grew up with and being able to sit in a cubicle like everyone else going through life like a robot. "Grow up" just means "join us in boring dull delerium because we gave in to the pressure and "grew up" as our parents told us so you have to too- join us in the mature boring world of being an adult".

The idea of being normal is nonsense. If you aren't sane enough to realize that you're crazy, then you are the one who is truly crazy. Does that make aaaaaany sense? If you think you are normal, you are probably really out of your mind. Normal doesn't exist, and even if it does, normal is entirely undesireable. Who would want to be normal? Normal is boring. Normal is 9-5, shirt and tie, 2.5 kids, dinner ready when you come home, football every Sunday, die when you're 78.5. Normal is insane. Realizing you're crazy is the first step towards true sanity.

Does anyone really get 8 hours of sleep on any regular basis? What does it really mean to get a "full" night's sleep- how do you know when you've gotten it? And if no one really gets a full night's sleep, whats the point of the idea of it out there? Is it kind of like the food pyramid and suggested daily vitamins, that no one gets either? In case you want to be an optimized person, go ahead and try and get 8 hours of sleep every night. You think walking on the street or meeting in person, that you could differentiate the full night's sleepers from the normal people who only get 7? Are we dying prematurely or killing our brain or something? What are we all missing out on in life by missing that extra sleep? Greatness??

Consider the vast discrepancy between perceived and actual reality. Memories are faulty, even patently false. The ability of the mind to be deluded and convoluted is strong. Take cleanliness for example. You might consider the carpet filthy because you see a few crumbs and such, while you blithly use your kitchen sponge or rag for cleaning dishes that is actually teeming with germs. But what matters more is your perception of the situation, not the truth of the matter. Which is why I say, choose to be deceived. Choose bliss over neurosis. If you want it to be clean, decide its clean. Its probably only as dirty as the things you truly believe to be clean.

Does ANYONE actually read this?


Ever notice the difference of saving a few cents on gas vs. a few dollars on something else? You'd drive across town to save a few cents on gas but would you drive across town to save a dollar on a car? No. For some reason, percentage of savings is much more important, perceived value. Does anyone realize that all that price shopping for gasolines is saving less than a dollar on a fill-up? And yet do you care that t-shirts are 50 cents less somewhere else or you can save a dime on milk? Would someone drive across town if they could save even FIFTY dollars on a new car, or even care to check?

The interesting thing about smell is, you wouldnt actually smell something unless actual particles of it were actually in your nose...Interesting, and possibly gross. Its why you have to blow your nose more after a bonfire for example, but every smell is actually individual particles of that substance suspended in the air, and in the case of smelling, trapped in your nose. Think of that next time you are driving by the hog farm.