I got some emails from family and friends in Laos informing me of the flood that was occurring over there. Fortunately their families are currently safe from the flood, but unsure of how much longer. It’s crazy looking at these pictures and seeing that some of the places I was at a couple of months ago are now under water.

For many years, dating back before the 1400s, judges in China wore quartz lenses colored by smoke so that no one in the courtroom could try to read their expressions and reactions to evidence since their decision in the trial wasn't made known until the end.

Not until the 1930s were sunglasses truly developed to keep out the glare of the sun, when Bausch & Lomb made such glasses for the U.S. Army Air Corps. In the 1960s, Foster Grant made sunglasses hugely popular by associating them with movie stars.

However in order to get anywhere in modern society, I believe that sometimes imagination has to take the passenger seat and allow knowledge to take the wheel. The combination of knowledge that comes from experience, and the willingness to work towards what you want is an invincible combination. It is best that imagination be allowed to site see and absorb the energy from its surroundings so it can feed knowledge with the insight of possible alternative routes to take should an obstacle arise.

So there’s something that kind of popped into my head this morning and it’s another one of those outlook-on-life type of thoughts. I’m sure that there’s something very similar to this that someone else has discussed somewhere out there. While brushing my teeth this morning with the radio on in the background, it came to mind that life is like a huge music player where the stop, pause, rewind, and fast forward buttons don’t work. The only button that seems to work [the play button] is jammed in place and so there’s no choice but to keep going forward with whatever media is playing.

If your music player happens to be the radio, sometimes you’ll find a station that you’ll groove to and will be overcome by inspiration for a variety of things. Some stations of a different genre may speak the mood of your current situation(s), but eventually you’ll probably grow tired of it and will switch to a different station of a better liking; most of the times a station that is most similar to how you’re feeling. Some stations may be broadcasting totally weird content but maybe that’s the kind of thing that you need at that moment in time, and so it’ll eventually grow on you providing a new side about yourself that you’ve come to learn.

Now back to the stop, pause, rewind, and fast forward buttons and why they don’t function. If you’re a nerd [like me] and have taken any physics or engineering courses, you’ll know that energy cannot be created nor destroyed therefore the stop button could not exist [on a life aspect] because it would cease all energy [wave energy] coming out of the speakers. The pause button would be like an epic ice age where everything is frozen in time. There wouldn’t be any motion, except maybe on a nanoscopic level, but there’s no fun in that concept. If you can develop a better analogy then feel free to share. The rewind and fast forward buttons are in a sense like going back/forward in time, and we all know that it isn’t actually possible  to time travel [unless it’s documented somewhere where someone actually has done so but I highly doubt it; it would be cool though].

And so all that is left is the play button, which unfortunately/fortunately [depending on how you look at it] is jammed. You don’t really have a choice but to go with what you’re given and learn to deal with it, whether or not you’re into the song genre or not. Then again, you can always change out the cassette/cd/mp3 to your liking. Or you could just pull the plug/batteries and it would be over all together.

Anyways, I guess I’m going to end my flow of thoughts as they’re beginning to run low on this particular topic. Here’s a radio station that I like to start my days with. What’s yours?