i'm pretty sure i've always been this way. i would like to be able to ask my mom that question some day. i've asked my dad, but he doesn't really remember, partially because he worked third shift and was sleeping during the day when i was asking "why" all the time.
i must have asked that all the time. because in the recesses of my mind, i can hear my mom saying, "because i said so."
hmph.
on my days off, i typically will sit in front of the computer and drink my coffee, starting out browsing news headlines, and inevitably finding something that strikes my interest. but, i am not satisfied with just one new topic. i end up making this weird, tangled path of associations until i end up learning about something that is completely unrelated to the initial subject.
case in point: last night, jay and i were watching "the hangover II." this morning, on the news page of google, i see something about "the hangover III." so i click it, and then i think, "hey, that guy that played doug, i wonder what else he's been in." head over to imdb.com, find out his name is justin bartha. his mom was a teacher. then i think, i wonder if bradley cooper is smart. so i find out that he was a part of the actor's studio, but had to miss his own graduation due to filming a movie. then i see a link to "he's just not that into you," and i think, hmm, i wonder how many big names were in that movie. then i see jennifer aniston on thumbnail for a movie called wanderlust. and i think, i wonder how old she really is? then somehow or another i end up seeing the word teetotaler, and i think, wth does that mean? so i look it up, and then next thing i know, i'm ready about hare krishna and straight edge-ness.
to go from "the hangover III," which is completely full of debauchery, to straight edge, which was apparently a direct response to the sexual revolution that pushed hedonism, free love, and drug use.
when i was a kid, my mom was the cleaning lady for our local, small-town library. so after hours, my sister and i would go with her, sometimes to help, but mostly to read books and play on the computer. i remember being enthralled with the world of books, how something that you could hold in your hand could completely, potentially, change your views, open your imagination, or steal you away from the real world. how those words would live with you, forever. i still can remember some of the books i read, the plots, the stories. i can remember spending hours in the nonfiction section, learning everything i could about science, and health, and animals. it's something that, to this day, i enjoy. i love to learn. i love to read, and i love to expand my horizons.
i hope that i will pass that on to my children someday.
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