h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This is the start of what I hope will be a continuing chronicle of my journey through life. I&#8217;ve decided that it can&#8217;t hurt (and it could possibly help) to have a written chronicle of my thoughts and feelings (what&#8217;s left of them) so that I can look it up a little down the road and see if I have really been progressing (effectively that is) through life. I&#8217;ve been somewhat of a slacker thus far in my life (everyone else I know calls it wasted potential) and from this day on I&#8217;m going to try my best to be the person that I think I can be and the person I think god expects me to be. To tell you the truth, I&#8217;m not really sure what that is but&#8230;I have this feeling that if I want to know badly enough and if I try hard enough, then one day (maybe) I&#8217;ll know exactly what it is. I&#8217;m making a vow of optimism and objectivity. From this point on I&#8217;m going to be as optimistic and as objective as I possibly can. I&#8217;ll tell you the truth&#8230;I don&#8217;t think that my life has been a waste (at least not entirely&#8230;<wink&gt but I probably could have got on the ball a little earlier in my existence. What can I say&#8230;I never really wanted to be or do anything (besides read, play video games, sleep, and some choice designer pharmaceuticals). The latter has taken up a lot of my time and energy these last ten years and I have decided that it is time to give some other pursuits a chance. Such as, school, girls, maybe taking on a little social responsibility&#8230;who knows, I may even like doing something else. If there is one thing I have learned in life it&#8217;s that there is way more out there to know then I could possibly imagine and that to shut myself off to a path or experience based solely on my current knowledge alone would be the greatest travesty I can think of. Now&#8230;that&#8217;s not to say that I don&#8217;t have strong convictions on a lot of different subjects. I&#8217;m only saying that you should always keep your mind open to new thought&#8230;brushing someone else&#8217;s beliefs aside solely because they are not your beliefs is wrong&#8230;take the time to analyze what they are saying and if, when you are through, you still find them to be a lot of irrational gibberish or, if you&#8217;ve heard what they have to say a million times before by a million different people then toss them aside with the clarity of mind that only true rational thought can give. Anyway, I&#8217;m not saying that I can&#8217;t still enjoy the occasional drug binge but&#8230;to be an effective druggie it takes up a lot of time and effort (not to mention money) and I have decided to put most of the time and effort required by the drug life into other pursuits. That said&#8230;I have no problem with drugs. Drugs aren&#8217;t the scourge that society makes them out to be. How can they be a scourge? They are inanimate&#8230;they have no will. The blame belongs solely on the individual. It is just a matter of people taking responsibility for their actions. I don&#8217;t have one problem with someone being a crack head if they can maintain a normal existence whilst in the midst of crack headom, or whatever you want to call it but, if you have a kid you can&#8217;t take care of because of it or you can&#8217;t keep from being a detriment to society because of it then take it upon yourself to refrain from that activity. Be it, smoking crack, eating, driving, whatever. Take some responsibility. That&#8217;s all I&#8217;m saying. NO MORE EXCUSES.

nice entry. You might like to ask another Guru apart from me a(i dunno) about the reason that all your ' ' ' characters appear as & 8 2 1 7 without the spaces...

I think I have worked it out

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&8217 - & 8 2 1 7
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