I still feel that education was the key factor, at that point in time, for the way my opinions were being reshaped, but it now seems that education was just an expression of a more fundamental change that had taken place in my goals of who I wanted to be as an individual and how that would fit into society as I imagined it existing at the time.  I had transitioned from my teenage desires of nothing more than to acquire a slightly better lot in life than that of my parents, with all of the typical trappings of the middle class, to caring less about having a particular lifestyle, and more about achieving intellectual satisfaction.

I am, thus far, not intellectually satisfied…  My goals seemed to have transitioned again, or to be in transition, so that intellectual satisfaction isn’t primary.  There are a number of very important factors in this change, but one that I haven’t dwelt on much is how my perception of society has shaped my goals.

I told a friend yesterday that the world in which his 20 year old son is trying to find his place is not the same as the world in which he found his place as a 20 year old, so it isn’t fair to expect him to take the same path, nor would it even necessarily be a shrewd path for the son to attempt to follow.  In the same sense, society doesn’t present the same opportunities to us as we age.  Society is different than it was ten years ago, and so am I.  The differences in these two things magnify each other, and as a result things that seemed impossible or undesirable ten years ago now seem the opposite, and vice versa.  Because these changes are inevitable, it makes sense to keep oneself in a position to most easily cope with an uncertain future, and the best way to do that seems to be to secure the maximum amount of resources.

Securing the maximum amount of resources seems like a shitty goal.

When you open the door to your own house, feeling sorry for yourself, and the cutest dog ever made literally bounces off the walls because you’re home?  Trump.

I’m getting married tomorrow, and I can’t imagine anything better to be doing.  I’m in love as though I was the first to discover such an emotion, and if you knew her, you would probably feel the same way.

I’ve found that I rather relish the palatable life.  Delusions of grandeur are bitter little nibbles that turn to burrs in the belly when compared to the sinus clearing, mentho-lozenge comestibility of delusions of normality.  To put it more succinctly:  I’ve finally found what makes me happy, and it isn’t people, it’s things.  Maybe it’s not things.  And surely it is, at least in part, people.  Mostly, however, I think it is money.  It is hard to say, really, but the beauty of being content is that I don’t have to question it; the world has gift-horsed it to me.

In any case, this here place is the new blog, a home away from home where I might wax tedious about video games, home ownership, and family living.  Thanks for joining me on this crazy journey, it is sure to be one hell of a ride…  Wahoo!

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