So, I love books & I love dictionaries. I couldn't remember how to spell precociousness, and the loveliness that is dictionary.com really helped me out, so I kept the fun little dictionary syllable notation (yes, I am a nerd; yes, I am a little OCD sometimes).
But the real topic of this post is one of those memories from when you were little that just always stick around. Like I said before, I always had trouble sleeping on nights before big events...like 1st day of school, getting to go see my cousins, the BEACH! And my little obviously precocious mind would think about some crazy things. One of my favorites, which keeps coming back over and over again, was this crazy philosophy about life. I used to wonder (a lot) about life and what it was...and the best guess I came up with when I was little was that at least your first time through life was just like a dream when you're a baby where you go through your whole life, make decisions, and see what the consequences are...and then you get to go through it again, make different decisions when you want to, and ultimately you get to control your whole life based upon what happened in this one dream when you're a baby. And then I would always wonder if I was living the dream or if I was on my second time through. Yeah, I know, I was a weird kid growing up. But I always think its funny when I read about these things for philosophy classes. Because some adults seem to continually wonder about the same thing.
By the way, I need to update my reading list...I've added new books (and have already finished two) and plan to add more. Another amazon.com order is in my future. Woot!
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