What Were We Thinking!?

When we are young people tell us what to think. By the time we are adults we have very little idea how to use our own brain. We think we are thinking because we function quite well within our society and we are not totally crazy. But in the wide scope of things, we are barely scratching the surface of what real thinking is all about. We are merely rearranging our prejudices and hardening our categories. By the time we are teenagers we are totally aware that most adults are either crazy or just plain dishonest and cruel. By the time we reach 21 we are quite sure who is good, bad, right and wrong. By the time we reach 29 we aren't quite so sure. By the time we reach 39 we are ready to chuck the whole system into the trashcan and start all over again or take some kind of adult education course to help us fit into the system better more uniformly than we have been able to before. Thirty nine seems to be a popular year for major decisions "to stay or not to stay, that is the question". It is around this time that one sees the reality of things that he either feared or that he never even looked at before. Many of us start to have mental battles within ourselves the likes of which we have never had since turning 18, or 21. But now our mental battles include diapers for either our 3rd child, an early grandchild or an aging parent.


Wake-up calls and Epiphanies. To be sure, some people start shaking their Boogyman tree much earlier than age 39; some peeps make big hairy deals of their issues all throughout their early adult hood and by the time they reach 39 they are well on their own to leaning how to erase the thoughts they were taught to think. Think "press 7 to delete this message." Oh how I delight in pressing 7!!!!!! And then I get to read yet another book about eating raw frogs and drinking borax and baking soda in rainwater. Or how to live in an RV in my neighbor's back yard with a compost toilet and one small extension cord for all my civilized energy needs.



Do real men drink designer water?