i'm spicer

here's an idea i've been toying with

i don’t have any children yet so most of this is speculation and reflection on the experience i’ve gained throughout my life…

i was wondering the other day who my parents are. i know who they are, but i really wonder who they are on a personal level. as children we miss out on so much of their lives that i don’t think we can really know them as well as they know us. they’ve seen our whole life and we’ve only seen maybe half of theirs. i wish we could sit down when we’re a certain age and somehow plug into all of the experiences and feelings they’ve had throughout the course of their lives.

this led me into another thought. if by knowing our parents better, knowing the emotions and experiences they’ve had, could we know ourselves better? if by understanding where we came from can we gain a better perspective on where we’re at now, and maybe even where we are going? think of the progress mankind could make if we were able to do this.

i began to imagine everyones’ lives as overlapping. we come into existence halfway through our parents’ lives and our children will do the same, and this stretches out/will stretch out into infinity. i then imagined two mirrors facing each other. due to the nature of mirrors (not being perfectly smooth or at the perfect angle with each other) the infinity they show us is flawed. the image curves into nothing, but as each image is reflected back a sliver of the image is lost causing the image to narrow. this seemed to me to be a great representation of the progression of the lives of humans. but if so, what are we losing in each reflection?

it's kind of funny

that people still use the term “sunset” even though we understand that the sun is stationary and it is the earth that is rotating away from the sun.

the next time you’re experiencing a “sunset” lay down on the grass, beach, whatever and create a mental picture of what is actually happening. imagine the entire solar system moving with the sun at it’s center. imagine earth moving and rotating away from the sun. keep this in your mind as you watch the sun slip below the horizon and you’ll trick yourself into feeling the earth move.

i started doing this when i was about 10 and i still find myself doing it :]

i pretty much hate all of the couples living together. there is nothing i want more than to be able to come home and to spend the rest of the day/evening with angel. don’t take it for granted assholes…