Salamanders, children, and adults

post 10

Today I barely did anything productive. But as I was walking outside to go to my car to go work out, my very productive father called me over. He found a salamander while he was weeding and gardening and his reaction was probably the funniest thing ever. If you dont know my father, hes kind of like a tough guy, im the strongest in the family person, but he was like, "David, look at this, do you know what it is? It's so cute... haha. we have to raise it." I laughed and thought to myself, is this my father? Here's my dad that I thought of as the iron pillar of manhood my whole life calling a salamander cute. haha it wasnt as earth-shattering as you think.

It got me thinking. I wondered how such a little animal could create such a reaction from an adult. It probably triggered some kind of child hood emotion that my father had or something, but i also thought about myself and my peers and everyone. Now that I'm growing older, about to face the "real" world, a lot of my concerns are about looking older and acting older. And im sure that a lot of other people that are in the same time of life as me feel this too. We feel that theres this invisible standard that we have to meet as we become college students, and growing up is definitely not a bad thing. Especially for tools. Tools need to grow up and drop out of effing tool academy, haha.

What I'm trying to get at here is that you have to feed your inner child, mentally. If you fed it physically youd probably just stock up on candy and soda and get obese. Obesity is another topic for another time. You have to realize that sometimes, trying to seem mature and all has its limits and you have to have fun once in a while. Where does my basis come from? How do I know this is good for you?
Well, if you saw the look on my dad's face you'd probably understand haha.

_DavidSSSSKim_

If things were easy, there would be no point in doing them.

A future of robots and happiness

Post #9

I am currently contemplating about the future. The future where I am slightly older and slightly more mature, although Im not sure that can be possible seeing as I am an amazing man right now. Older people say that we young'uns never think about the future unless it's about the future of what we're gonna do on saturday. And honestly I can say to those old people, screw you. Your old, go clean your dentures. I always think about the future. I think about how things are gonna be when i have kids, if i will even have kids, what my future will be as a certain career, and so on and so forth. All these things spin in my head like a cesspool of evil thoughts and plans to destroy the world. Although, the thoughts arent really that evil, cesspool just seemed like an awesome word to use.

And honestly when I think about the future, I get scared. I want to live here and now and be a Toys R' Us kid forever, but I cant. Thats a fact. We cant just stay living in the present and expect good things to happen. In order to grow, one must think about things that he wants to happen and work towards that goal. If not, you'll end up working a 9-5 shift at Mcdonalds thinking what wonders the weekend holds in store for you at age 24. Society defines that a good life is having a good career with lots of money and power, and those of you who are non conformists I hate to break the news to you but society is kind of right. You're life is all about you being happy. And of course being happy means being/ living comfortably which comes along with money and power, but if you are happy living on the streets and shitting in dumpsters, i bow my hat to you, my friend. Its all up to your own personal definition of happiness and how you can achieve that happiness, that is how you work towards the future.

Some day, though, robots will rule the earth so there will really be no point in thinking about the future. But until that happens, we can dream and have hope, but thats just wishful thinking :D. playin. be happy.

-DavidS kim