Way to go, Indiana. Won’t somebody please think of the children? While you’re at it, why don’t you go and try to change “Pi” to equal 3 again?
I haven’t been a gamer in forever, and I’ve been over the age of 18 for 4 years. But I’m pretty sure that this is a dumb idea that is extremely unconstitutional, and our tax dollars would be better (read: not better) spent trying to catch people who download the latest Kanye West album off the internet.
If something that I said in the past is no longer true today, does that make it a lie?
It’s Christmas break again, or at least it will be after my last class this afternoon. I will be flying back to Oklahoma tomorrow morning, which makes that a record number of times I have been to that state in the past few years. Hopefully, Christmas will be good. I am in need of a break, physically and emotionally.
I’ve been thinking lately, is it a good thing or a bad thing to wonder how your life might have turned out if things had gone a different way? Better? Worse? The same? There are few milestones in my life that have defined me as a person, and I’m curious what kind of person I would be if certain doors had opened for me and had others been closed on me. I would certainly be a different person.
A few of those doors remain closed on me, but are almost tantilizingly transparant, allowing me to see what could have been. I have no way of knowing, but I hope I made the right choice.
Things get damaged
Things get broken
I thought we’d manage
But words left unspoken
Left us so brittle
There was so little left to give
Anthony Ryan Monhaut, 29 August 1986 - 9 Decemeber 1986.
Saint Anthony, pray for us.
One of the worst feeelings is knowing what you need to do, and yet not doing it for one reason or another. Typically those reasons include fear of accomplishment or rejection, but mostly the reasons include inventions of previous “responsibilities” that should be completed before you can move on to the fun things.
Graduating from Rose-Hulman is one of those things that I typically use as a mask for doing what I really want to do. Because as we all know by now, I do not want to graduate from Rose-Hulman anymore. Yet I constantly say that doing what I really want will get in the way of accomplishing the goal of graduating.
Funny how it works out that way. The things in life that make you happy should take precedence, should they not?
Especially when there is absolutely nothing keeping me from concurrently accomplishing my goals. One of lifes greatest gifts is its ability to be non-linear. Maybe I should learn to multi-task.
I think that I have finally come to realize that this is going to be in my head for the rest of my life.
Even when I am going to be a 90 year old man, there is not a thing in the world I will be able to do to escape this reality. I have decided to accept it as a fact of life.