Big shot Rocket Scientist.
There are a lot of things books can teach you, and I often stop and contemplate things I’ve read, its as if the author has discovered something about human characteristics that he wants to share with everyone in the hope that it can make everything just a tiny bit easier. So I’m currently reading Paper Towns by John Green and here are two things I’ve learnt. I’ve adapted them so that they can read without needing to know the plot:
You know why people fight? Because they expect people to not be themselves. I mean, I could hate someone for being massively unpunctual or never being interested in anything other than a celebrity they love, but I don’t give a shit, because you’re you. So stop hating people because they act a certain way, just accept that that’s part of there personality and you can either love them for it or move on and forget about them.
Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood. There was no panning for retirement. There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for planning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more of a future, and so they spent more time thinking about it. About the future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of you life is lived for the future-you go to high school so you can got o college, so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to a good school so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can… people have stopped living for the now, but just living for the future. I guess what I’m trying to say is live for the now and have fun doing it, because who knows what the future holds.
