I am currently suffering a near-incapacitating inability to move my right arm/shoulder and neck, apparently all a result of being abducted by aliens Saturday night (and/or sleeping very wrong). It's made me realize how important that dominant arm is to daily living, and wonder about what I'd do if it were completely gone. How would I adapt? How would I cope? But you know, people learn to do it every day, and why should I think I'm special?
It's amazing how the universe conspires to show you how damn lucky you are sometimes. Good for the universe.
Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as empty, meaningless, or dishonest, and scorn to use them. No matter how pure their motives, they thereby throw sand into the machinery that does not work too well at best. -- Robert A. Heinlein
0 talk to the sand:
Post a Comment