Well, lately, I’m going nowhere. I just realized it the other day. Somehow, without really thinking, I settled into a nice modernist frame of thought. I am talking about science. I started believing in progress. I started to think we knew it all. Nothing left to discover. Stick a pin in me, leave me on display, the cockroach of humanity—the arrogant one.
I was listening to the CBC and they were interviewing a researcher. I can’t remember exactly what it was, but he just completed a study that showed that good physical health leads to a longer life. There were a few specifics that made this research unique—I think it had to do with mental health—but it was the first study of it’s kind. The findings seemed incredibly obvious, but apparently no one else had done it before and that’s when I realized I had gotten lazy. Turns out, I don’t know everything. There is still a lot to explore.
You know the problem with me is that science ties me down too much. I can’t imagine anything. I get all obsessed with fact and date/time and where can your mind go when you are tied to the earth? So, I just wanted you all to know that I am renouncing this laziness. Another 2009 resolution! Time to dream a little more.
I know you just said you wouldn’t do triathlons, but that would seem to be the obvious option here. Today was my third day in the gym/pool in a row, and guess what, I don’t feel lazy. I can’t move, but I don’t feel lazy.
haha, that’s funny, right on Ian! Triathlon, the pool, lonely bicycle rides and runs definetely gives you a lot of time to think… albeit maybe not creatively… “I hate this I hate this, friggen knee, flat tire again, body aches, bonking… wind ahhhhh… I hate this”
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Why would either of you, and Leif, want to put yourself through that? I prefer to test my ability to sleep-in or my ability to stare at a monitor for long periods of time.