My Abusive Relationship With Baseball

As I’ve become older, out of my twenties for a couple of years, I’ve found myself settling into a pattern of reveling in solitude. When I was younger, I had to be plugged in. There was a driving force behind finding someone, anyone, to meet up with for a movie or drinks. It didn’t matter who it was with or what we were doing, as long as I had a story to share the next day. Inside I felt like I was “loser” if I didn’t go out. Somehow I had failed if I didn’t have plans. I’m not sure if it was o…

It’s amazing how much influence the abstract concept of time has on our lives.  Time makes up so much of who we are that it’s basically thought of as an absolute, such as gravity.  Sure, the Earth keeps circling the Sun but it was man that invented time, just as it was man who invented money or religion.  If you think about it, these three things combined pretty much make up our entire existence yet they are completely unfound in the natural world.  You can’t eat money, religion doesn’t keep yo…