These videos
sum up my opinion of the little things in the world
I love my looking at my small room and all the paraphernalia I bought back from other countries. Just looking at those objects make me think "The world is just awesome" because those places were awesome.
edited 8th Jul '12 6:55:59 AM by PippingFool
I'm having to learn to pay the priceSpiders in my room or elsewhere. Especially the ones that live at my temple. They are everywhere in the plants around there along with a cadre of other such creatures. Really the wat gets this nice sphere of creatures. Birds and wasps and spiders and lizards and fish.
And no one is murdering any of these. There's just this lovely little model of the life cycle sitting on the temple property largely untouched. When they build they do their best to relocate plants and animals safely as well.
It gives me faith in the idea that we don't have to be assholes and that we aren't all such. That we can exist with other creatures without utterly destroying them. That maybe the cycle of things can progress peacefully and well. There's something rather profound about it.
edited 16th Jul '12 11:08:55 PM by Aondeug
If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan ChahI don't know how 'mundane' you might call it, but for me, every time I use the internet/world wide web. Knowing that there is this MASSIVE compendium of knowledge, entertainment, and communication available at my fingertips almost constantly, where almost all of my questions can be answered, where I can learn about anything from classical philosophy to an unfolding investigation in the news to the latest Internet memes, where I can connect with others who share my interests or feel the way I feel on certain topics when these people don't exist in my physical life... it just seems to me like the whole thing is one of the greatest, most versatile, helpful, and incredible human achievements in all history.
The Rubix Cube. A small piece of plastic, made out of 26 smaller pieces of plastic, a core, 56 stickers, and six turny bits, and it has literally thousands, if not, millions, if not, billions of ways to be arranged.
And we made it. We made a machine so simple you could probably make one at home, yet so complex you could turn a few bits and never fix it for years.
YOU'LL PAY FOR THE WHOLE SEAT, BUT YOU'LL ONLY NEED THE EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDGE!!!Pepperoni pizza from Pizza Hut. That stuff's the bee's knees man. Yeah, they call me black, male C.C.
Actually,. they don't, and I don't think I'd appreciate it if they did.
Do not spare the feelings of those who would not spare yours.

A while back I was at the library, due to lack of Internet, listening to various remixes of the Skyrim theme. When I had to leave, it began to rain. A friend I know asked if he could get a ride home, so I volunteered to sit in the bed of our pickup truck. As I felt the chilly wind and rain hit my face, the Skyrim theme bagan to play in my head, and for some reason, this feeling made me absolutely happy to be alive.
Anybody else have strange feelings like this about the little things in life?
Above all, always remember to stay positive.