Thoughts from a Labor Day Weekend

12. My dopamines are doing fine. I don't believe I'm overly excited about anything at any time, but I'm happy enough when I should be.

18. If I could have my camera on me at all times, maybe I would lug it around daily. I'd love to be able to carry a camera wherever i go, be able to capture whatever scene I happen upon, but with my current setup/rig, it's simply impractical to add 5lbs or so to whatever load I'm carrying at the moment so that I could capture a few moments in time should the opportunity arise. Myself being an avid photographer has done just this before, lug a 4-lb brick around wherever I travelled, and captured something different everyday, but in the general scheme of things, it's simply impractical to do.

76. If I was ill, I wouldn't advertise it on Facebook. Facebook's too terribly efficient as a broadcasting mechanism, and I don't think everyone needs to know exactly what state of health I am in. It's simply unnecessary.

82. Of course there are starving children in China and India. There are starving people everywhere. Where there are starving people, there will be starving children, because starving adults typically don't do too well at feeding their starving children. The sad reality of it all is that we live in a society that exhibits the most extreme contrasts between the rich and poor.

83. Across town, Stony Brook may not have too many starving children. Of course, there will be a few no matter where we may go in the world, but in a broader view, New York City is full of starving children, children who live in a poverty that they are forced to grow up in and understand hardships that many of us simply cannot imagine.

92. If there was universal healthcare, I still don't believe I'd live to the overly-ripe age of 120. In fact, I don't think I'd want to live to be that old.

93. I don't think I ought to live to the age of 120. In fact, I don't think anyone should be living to the age of 120. Past a certain age, one becomes a burden, one that gets worse with age. I'd hate to be a burden to my family (assuming I have one at the time), that old man who needs to be taken care of because of blood obligations.

106. Authority of all sorts could be challenged, should be challenged, and usually is. At least in the American society, we value our right to challenge just about anything very much, and love to exercise that muscle every now and then.