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    The Forgotten Ideal Of Efficiency

    A long time ago while I was in my first year of college, I learned quite a lot about efficiency as it relates to computer programming and automation.  Since the advent of computers, life as we know it continues to advance in efficiency.  Efficiency is of course, getting what you want as quickly as possible with the least amount of work/cost/etc. So, from my standpoint, being that I try to be as practical and efficient as possible (it doesn’t always happen), it’s quite obvious to see that when people around me are exceedingly inefficient, it tends to annoy me.  Take for example my recent visit to the grocery store.  Not…

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    The American Dream

    Some of my best times were when I was younger, spending all summer living in the wilderness with only the possessions and clothes I could strap against my back. Besides the necessities, what more does a person really need? I lived two summers in the woods without electricity or running water, and they were the best summers of my life. Given the chance, I would still live this way but these days I don’t know just how practical this lifestyle would be. Today in “society” people are buying things they don’t need, driving cars they can’t afford, and living in fancy luxurious houses so they will never ever live within…

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    Living Life To The Fullest

    A lot of people talk about living life to the fullest.  Above everything else, I’ve always seen this ideal as being paramount.  I want to experience as much as I can, to know everything, and to see everything that can be seen.  I want to go to all the interesting and unique places I can before they’re gone forever. Unfortunately, living a lifestyle like this takes money.  Lots of money.  Much more money than I have at this moment (I have pockets full of lint).  And although I’d love to work at a 9 to 5 job, these jobs tend to get mundane, boring, and repetitive.  I wish someone would…

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    I’ve Become A Nostalgia Whore

    nostalgia noun; a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition nostalgia, baby by catklein, on Flickr One of the biggest source of inspiration I draw upon is my nostalgic personality.  A natural-born writer and creative force, as a child I tried to write down daily events and happenings on a regular basis and no matter how small, or seemingly insignificant.  Sadly, much of my personal written history has been lost to the ravishes of time, carelessness, or both.  Indeed, much of my early playful beginnings were at one time recorded on paper in gory detail.  Over the years, I’ve used my…

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    I Wish It Was All That Easy

    There are times in my life when I wish I could send a message to all of those people, that for whatever reason, that I seem to have lost touch with. If I could send such a message, I would let them know how they had an impact on my life, regardless of how small and insignificant, that in essence, caused me to end up being who I am today. But who am I really? And if these people who had even the most insignificant impact upon my life remembered me by name, would they even recognize the person I am today? The notion that some day I might get…