Remember Me?

[uhsir]

No, I didn’t give up on LJ.

I didn’t even make a decision based on my last post. I think I’ll just post in both places depending upon how I’m feeling. I poked around and found out how to add links to my page, so if you don’t have Yahoo Messenger (where it’ll tell you if I update my Yahoo stuff) you can get to my blog from the link here. Don’t rush off there now. Go later, in your spare time. Or never at all, I’m fine with that too. Besides, there’s nothing new there yet.

 

I don’t even know if anyone reads this stuff. Well, I do know someone reads it when there are comments, but at the time that I’m writing I don’t know if anyone will read what I’ve written. That’s why I don’t update much. I never kept a diary when I was little. I guess I was too busy experiencing life that I never took time to reflect on it. Maybe if I had done a little of that back then I wouldn’t be so busy chasing life today.

 

The other evening I let my thoughts wander (okay, it didn’t start out voluntary) and I began to consider whether or not humankind was more intelligent 300 years ago than it is today. I finally theorized that people were smarter back then because they had more time to mentally digest a thing. These thoughts came to me one evening when I was trying to fall asleep but my brain raced on and on about things I thought I’d forgotten, and some things that seemed to come out of nowhere. Like, “why aren’t there any ‘great’ men and women these days?” I deduced that it’s because 300 years ago there wasn’t any electricity so when the sun set a person needed to decide whether to burn or conserve the candles and more often conserve was the choice. (Because money was scarce and probably most people made their own candles, but I could be completely wrong about that since I blew off history in school. I know… I’m ashamed.) So laying in the dark or sitting out in the moonlight, one’s brain would be able to digest things and in doing so a person would be more intelligent. Okay, with this line of reasoning, maybe humankind was only more intelligent philosophically, but isn’t that what leads to a person being “great?” It’s not just about “doing” something. It’s about “embodying” something. Is there anyone today that even comes close to that? I don’t think so because I don’t think anyone takes the time anymore. Everything changes so fast. There’s barely enough time to find out about something let alone think about it long enough to completely understand it. Even a new idea gets trampled on and twisted. If anything happens anywhere it is known about within minutes all across the world because of the Internet. Then 100 million people jump on it and dissect it. 

 

What in tarnation am I going on about? Well, this all came to surface after I listened to the news this morning and the top story was about some guy who ate 47 grilled cheese sandwiches in 10 minutes. Last month he ate 50 hot dogs. And he’s becoming a threat to the reigning champ, some Japanese guy. I thought, could this be the definition of “great” now? There’s even a formal group called the International Federation of Competitive Eating. I wonder when Competitive Eating will become an Olympic event. Hmm, wasn’t there something in the news a while ago about a worldwide obesity problem? 

Now that I've unloaded my brain here, I guess I'll get back to work.

 

• Current Mood: pensive

Comments

greatest is all relative at the end of the day

[(Anonymous)]

ok ... greatness, what is that really?
At the end of the century, people will access what made that era great and thus it becomes relative cause our point of view now will be so different from those 100 yrs from now.
Did I make any sense , or was that a great answer? hehehe...my motto live every day as if it is your last. Stop over analizing things and maybe things will clear up.
You know like the way the government always does a committee report to study something and it takes another committee to explain what they did!
Sorry I am rambling now.
Nice to see you blogging again Uhsir.
hugs
gatebee