They say that the journey of life begins with a single step, I guess the real trick to it all, is making sure that it's a step in the right direction.  It's amazing, how much a single choice can affect your whole future.  Even a simple word such as "yes" or "no" can turn  your whole life around.

It's hard to know someone, it's hard to know what to say to them when you don't.  Sometimes to find the right words is such a struggle, that your probably better off using someone elses.  I'm not saying fill your whole conversations with qoutes, as a very good friend of mine once said, and I quote ?:O)  "I don't kneed quotes to liven up my conversations".  I guess non of us need them, but sometimes it helps when you read something that someone said, and realise to yourself, that they are right, that you agree with them.  It's a way for us not to feel so alone in our thoughts in a world filled with individuals lost in their own.

Is there anything universal I wonder?  Mathmatics isn't, I mean, you'll get thousands of mathmaticians trying to disagree that point with me I'm sure, but mathematics itself is flawed.  We can divide something into thirds, but we can't give one third an exact numerical value, nobody can agree on Pi (personall nothing beats a deep filled Rhubarb pie if you ask me, well, cept maybe ...........  oh come on, you know what icecream I was going to mention here).  Humor isn't universal either, some people laugh at what others would find offensive or just boring.  Is love universal?  We all love differant people for differant reasons, but is the basic feeling the same?  I think that these days, people use the world love like it's some sort of currency.  The more they use it, the less value and meaning it has to them.  I think that many people get love confused with obession and infatuation.  I can't say what it takes to truely love someone, for everyone it's differant I'm sure.  I do however know that it takes more then a photograph or a nice conversation or a chance meeting in the park by accident.  We could never love someone for just this alone, but we could end up strongly attracted to them.  At that stage, we wouldn't mind having the chance to fall in love.

Einstein was right in his simplified explination of his theory of relativity.  "Put your hands on a hot stove for a minute and it will seem like an hour, sit with a nice girl for an hour and it will seem like a minute, that is relativity".  Maybe it's just our perceptions of time that keep us a prisoner in our past sometimes, but his theory was right.  Funny how a conversation can seem to last for only 5 minutes, but then when you look at the clock, you see that 40 minutes has gone by.  You think to yourself, where did the time go?  Just one minute ago you were talking to a person that made you forget there was ever a world around, and the next, your sitting alone, the coffee going cold in the cup and the sounds of the traffic seem heavey in the air.  In your heart, you can only hope that maybe, just maybe, time also passed as quickly for them.

It's amazing how much a single choice can affect your future, even a simple world such as "yes" or "no" can turn your whole life around.  You can will your heart, your soul, your mind and everything else you have inside of you to say "yes", but it's all for nothing if fate decides "no".  Can you change your future, your fate, your destiny if you really really try?  If you want something that badly?  It remains to be seen, but as this stage, I wouldn't mind having the chance to find out.
 

Ian H. Moore
March 04 2000
Suffering from another bout of philosophy.