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I think I'm losing weight.
Which is good, I need to lose some weight.
So today I need to walk Miika, and I will probably ride my bike around the neighborhood as well.
I feel fresh today.
Actually I felt fresh the last two days as well.
No no I don't mean fresh like-the bad kind of fresh.
I mean fresh like: energized, new, vibrant, want to go places kind of 'fresh'.
When I feel 'fresh' I usually dress nicer too.
Ironically I always feel this way after my monthly gift.
How weird it is the cycles we Women go through.
I feel pretty for a while (a couple of weeks or so) then I'll just feel normal, casual. Then I might get super depressed or ultra moody when I'm PMS-ing.
It's weird how that happens.
Makes me wonder what life will be like after menopause, with no cycles to rely on.
In fact, more or less, everyone in the world relies on cycles.
The cycles of daily life, of nature, of the seasons.
I live in the northern hemisphere, so we get snow, and I can't imagine life without the seasons.
Where would I be without summer to fall back on? The season of plenty abundance and the season to enjoy life? Where would I be without spring, my favorite season, the season where plants begin to grow and life starts again innocent and beautiful. Where would we be without fall to ruminate in-giving thanks at thanksgiving and preparing for the cold winter ahead. Where would be If we didn't have xmas or chanukah songs in our heads all year round, just waiting for that holiday to spring up, a celebration of 'the days getting longer' 'light returning to earth' the winter solstice!
We rely on the holidays and the seasons.
When we move to a new place however, we must adapt.
Up north the winters are longer, down south there are barely any 'seasons' just warmer or cooler.
Our rythmic clock is patterned to where we live and how we live our lives.
Perhaps that is why we do not have a biological clock attuned to the magnetic poles like birds, cows, butterflies, and other animals.
This makes us more adapatable.
A blank slate makes us more adaptable.
We may envy other creatures for super human strength and ability
but it is in fact our blank slate that has made us conquer the world. Our high rate of adaptability.
We have no fur-and advantage if you can make clothes with your hands, suiting yourself to whatever environment you live in.
And yet-we are so un-connected to our daily rythmns nowadays.
Who can recall or name a point in the pattern they look forward too-
the wildflowers coming back in the spring, the robins arriving, the cardinals coming back, can you pinpoint what season this occurs? No?
By making ourselves technology geniuses we have become disconnected with the world we live in.
Technology is a good thing.
In fact, technology has helped us develop mentally.
You would be in an entirely different mental state if you lived like someone in the 70's, then someone in 1910, then someone in 2010.
I can see hints of a future where the technologies we develop are put inside us.
I've heard of research being done on an 'electronic hippocampus'-the part of the brain that learns.
All you would have to do, is plug in and download a new language.
Considering how fast the rate of technology developments is going
PHENONMENAL compared to the 20th century, I can see us in the near future very much technologically advanced.
We may have technology help us so much that we become 'cyborgs'.
and in the far far far far far away future
one day me may be able to emulate life itself.
be able to grow a heart, kidney, liver, tissue, a human.
What if we managed to make a human capable of super strength by altering the genes of the human so that when it grows it will have stronger muscles.
I'm getting off topic, forgive me, after all this is a random blog.
