Friday, November 20, 2009

Real life

Always alert to the possibility of losing half my current audience, I take feedback very seriously. A long time fan of this blog mentioned that I might consider putting some more real life stuff in to make that personal connection. Like I'm some sort of Fonz.

Talking about your deepest fears and delusions are not considered real life apparently. Which got me to thinking. What is real life? Apart from the 5 senses which feed information to our hungry brains, real life is what goes on in your head in processing all that information. It is the interaction between you and your environment, including people, animals, street furniture, ambient and artificial light, food, drink, the sound of traffic, the smells all around.

So is real life just your perception and reaction to all this disparate information coming in at speeds that sometimes approach sensory overload?

No idea. Sounds complicated.

So here's a personal story from today... Got up, girl is sick, cat is needy, traffic is annoying, work is full of the usual idiots. Starting to feel hungry so may go to lunch.

Is that better, or do you want to know more about Jeff?

5 comments:

  1. That girl seems to always be sick. By the way, very astute explianation of real life.

    BH

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  2. What exactly is "street furniture"?

    Oh, peanut gallery comment for you Andy: I would like to request more Arcane Knowledge.

    Happy belated birthday!

    Thank you,
    Ed

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  3. Update your blog. Though I find it ironic that the last time you did, I was also sick.

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