Let's do this...

Hey!

Is there anyone still out there in this part of the intertubes? No? Okay, I guess I'll just keep talking to hear myself talk.

So, I came back to this blog the other day and started reading all of those things I wrote junior and senior year. It's crazy reading it. That guy isn't hardly even me any more. He had some good ideas. He had some passion. He had some creativity.

What happened to that guy? Where is he now? Why am I shouting loudly into a lonely empty space on the intertubes?

I will answer these questions.

That guy is now a computer drone that does math and physics with an efficiency and correctness that is somewhat unsettling to the feeble dying human elements of this once completely human cyborg. He sometimes sits in class and sometimes sits at his desk in the dorms that are within walking distance of class. He dose some fun things now and again. He learns but hardly ever thinks anymore. Not like before. Before, he thought all the time and hardly ever learned.

If he looks, if he looks long and hard he can hear the breathing of the dormant person that he once was. He knows that sleeping something stills has all the passion. Days upon months of lack of time and sleep have caused these things to fall dormant. Which leads me to why I'm yelling into an abandoned space of internet.

It's time to reawaken this person. Return to thinking. Perhaps not a return to not learning. However, if learning is inversely proportional to thinking then it is a necessary trade off.

Most of the really cool things that guy said were the product of repetitive mundanitity(if it's not a word I'm adding it right now). That still exists.

So here I am, awake and ready. I'm yelling.

Next question.

To whom am I yelling?

I'm yelling, first, to Beth. And second to our two loyal readers out there. Come back and lets get the fun started again.

Here's why this time is going to be so much more awesomer then last time.(presented in a numbered list)

1) Beth has been living in California doing all kinds of cool things with her life that must have brought some sort of new and interesting though that I would personally love to hear.
2) I'm in the second semester of a 10 semester downward spiral into insanity that is also known as architectural engineering college, and this can only lead to further entertainment for you.
3) We're both older, not in highschool, and getting closer and closer to being in the 'real world' as they say. If you ask me I'm pretty much there now.
4) If you've read this far on the bulleted list then welcome aboard you are indeed one of our two valued fans and I'm glad to have you back.
5) I'm always looking for reasons to avoid the things that I probably should be doing. For example, right now I should be sleeping. Well, actually I shouldn't even be doing that. I should be working on writing a computer program for one of my classes. But, like I said I'm looking forward to thinking more often than learning and what better excuse for doing so then for you entertainment.

I'm sure Beth has something to say about our rebirth so listen up and pay attention.

O and one more thing. I'd like to take this opportunity to redefine this blog. 'The other side of the coin' was a reference to a Peter Jennings quote. Jennings said "When I see a coin, instinctively, I want to look at the other side." He was talking about an undying desire to always seek to learn more, to know more. Actually, he was talking about knowing everything, everything about any given story that he would cover. While we never sought to know everything we always sought to bring up some other thought, even if we did attempt to accomplish that by somewhat comical means.
Now, I return to a thought that I have often had. This country, and ultimately the entire world(or most of it, I cannot speak on the entire world because I know so little about it) is a competition driven society. We scratch and claw ahead of the next guy hoping to get that better grade to get that better job to get that better life, or so we think. For many people that system works but it seems to me that for every winner there are at least two losers. Also, rarely is it the hard worker that wins anymore. For some odd reason the amount of work a person puts towards 'bettering their life,' so to speak is not often related to how much better their life gets. And when I say 'bettering their life' I mean, moving up the 'social ladder' and pushing the other guy down. That is not acceptable in my book. Now, not too many people are reading my book and we're never going to stop this one-upper society.
We can, however, present the other side of the coin, in direct word or in spirit, of this social situation. Ask these questions: "Can I settle with happiness in my life or must I strive towards world impact? "While I may attempt to set goals and do things with my life, can I be happy at every stage along the way as opposed to only being happy once my goals are reached? "Can I view the cookie cutter life path that society has forced upon me as something to be treaded lightly instead of barreled down at full speed in the single hope that I'll finish before the next guy? If you ask me, the answers are all yes. The other side of the coin: Slow down. Enjoy each step of the way. All you have is time. You can reach your goals with out pushing down or beating out the other guy. I promise.

I also promise never to be that serious again.

that's all I really wanted to say
Adam