GitHub repository: winnersmasher/hello-world
Created: 2017-04-19T04:23:04Z
Description: In retrospect, it sometimes all felt somewhat ridiculous even mid-act. I would be in the kitchen, tossing the dirty napkin in the burn box, my beer bottle into the recycling bucket, my apple core in the compost, and my styrofoam carryout into the trash (I was too lazy to research if that was recyclable), and just feel ridiculous. My vegetarianism, for the primary purpose of anti-agricultural-pollution, and secondary purpose of anti-animal-suffering... my online browsing of affordable, under-the-sink, reverse osmosis water purification systems. My sacrastic remarks about fox news and other conservative media outlets that would have the people of my country believe that the United States is not a safe place for me, a friendly middle class white person. And yet my ever increasing consumption of "more realistic" fake violence in shows like "The Walking Dead" (too much drama), "The 100" (too much teen drama), and "Game of Thrones" (too many core Christian themes), and a comic book style role playing video game known for having the most amount of weapon types ever (too much bad comedy), etc, etc. Warfare and politics, death and gore, all things that I supposedly hated, but the stories were just too good, and I craved the moral grey areas, listening to my own criticisms and judgement while being entertained just enough, but most of all, the adventure and excitement. All this while I take up the ever-impractical sports of rock climbing and brazilian jiu-jitsu, while developing an increasing interest in rifle markmanship. Beyond that? I was leery of accepting the new Apple Software agreements, but would scroll down and click anyway. I felt addicted to checking into my social world via the social media apps on my iPhone, and relied on automatic withdrawals from my bank account to pay my bills. I was considering becoming a bike commuter. I had signed up for Bike 101 classes so I would know how to service my 1970s Schwinn, and was going to trade volunteer hours to pay for that class. No more needless consumption of oil. Most improbable of all, I was considering trading in my smart phone for the old-fashioned flip phone of the previous decade, so that I would have to crack my laptop open and enter a password from a mainly stationary location in order to begin consuming my social media news feed and keep myself updated on the lives of my friends and family, and whatever the world wanted me to know what was going on, plus a few adorable cat pics and puppy videos, of course.  What the hell was wrong with me.  Hadn't I yet learned that the world is ridiculously huge, and will most certainly take care of itself? Didn't I know that the luxurious lifestyle I lived, however low cost/low impact I had fine-tuned it to be, and whatever conveniences I sacrificed for that, would ALWAYS cause suffering to someone because of something that I consumed at some point? And to think I was afraid of digital user agreements for technology that could connect me to loved ones and an endless plethora of information, things my beautiful mind craves...