Epicenter

I don't know if you guys heard, but there was a crazy storm in NJ while I was up in Syracuse this past weekend. For this last week, many businesses, schools, and homes have been without power (one of my buddies didn't have power from Saturday - Friday) for a while. Thankfully, I've been able to avoid much of the power loss (I had power when I got back home Sunday night). However, my center was not so fortunate - I didn't work Monday and Tuesday. Awesome - no sarcasm, really.

Anyways, since I came across some free time (you know, because I didn't have much of that before. . .), I decided to finally clean my room. For those readers who are unfamiliar with my room: imagine a thief ransacked your entire room for a furtively hidden silver dollar. Twice. After laundry day, maybe 15 times. At least that's how it's been described to me by pretty much anyone who has at least peeked into it.

Fools. See, here is the exception to the law of entropy that everyone overlooks (it may or may not hold up in a scientific applications): If you leave an item somewhere, it will remain there unless you move it. We'll call it John's Law. The reason, besides laziness, that I don't clean my room is because of this law. If I already know where everything is, why do I need to follow a structure where I do more work to put an item back in place so that I'll know where it is next time even though I can put it anywhere and know anyway? (It's a rhetorical question full of flaws and assumptions - please don't dominate me). As someone who values practicality over aesthetics (except on girls), I just don't see the point.

Naturally, when I came across John's Law, I tried to apply it to people. Because that's what I do. I sit (lie) here alone and think about people. Creepy and ironic. The social application of John's Law really peeved me. As a ridiculously self-centered/absorbed individual (I have a blog - red flag #1), it really annoyed me that when I leave a person, his life does not pause. Nor does he stay stagnant, waiting for my return. That really sucks. "You are not a moon in my life!?"

To constantly move towards an end that may be different from everyone else in your life. Sentence fragments. It's a terrifying thought that all the people for whom you have so much positive emotion may be nothing but tangential, transient, passer-bys.