Oreo's Observations

You’ll never view the world with such innocence until you see the northern lights.  You’ll watch the oceans collide with the sky,  the waves kiss the stars.  A warm glow will fill the void of the darkness,  and sweet harmonies will surround you in the midst of silence.  The blues and the greens will swallow the world,  and you’ll be left in an inescapable dream. Incidental,  chaotic, beautiful, madness.  Absolute madness.  Incredible space. You’ll look up to galaxies that look down upon you, sympathetic, but superior. Endless revolutions of objects in circles and ellipses, without you in the center.  You’ll bask in the freedom of this universe,  something that your you niverse never provided you. Reality is unforgiving,  and you leave this dream untouched.  You sit with your legs crossed.  Hair pinned. Sleek polish canvasing your nails to perfection.  You miss the blissful sound of this world. This world, we see ...

I've been sitting at my desk staring at this blank screen for the last 15 minutes because I don't know what to write about. A quick google search of day-to-day environmental issues and it begins to hit me that I can't talk about any of this. Food wastage? Guilty. Long showers? Guilty. Overuse of electricity? Guilty. Driving instead of walking, using plastic bags at the grocery store, indulging in one-time use products, writing on dead forests instead of digitally? Well damn it. I simply cannot preach what I don't practice. So instead, here's a sort of resolution that actually guilt trips me into doing something good for the environment: According to the Evironmental Protection Agency we use OVER 1 TRILLION GALLONS OF WATER EACH YEAR JUST FOR SHOWERING . The EPA also tells us that the average showerhead wastes over 2 gallons per minute alone. So...you'd think the solution is pretty obvious. In India, I shower with a bucket and a pail, using only about a few gallo...

Negligence of medication is one of the most devastating forms of akrasia. When we're prescribed a strict dosage of medicine to be taken regularly, we often don't follow up on it. Maybe the day of and the few days after we feel compelled, and even motivated to take it. After the doctor said "you have a severe vitamin D deficiency" we're woken up. But quickly we become blind once again because even though the tablets are within arm's reach on the kitchen counter, even though we're at risk for chronic weakness if we don't get ahead of it, we don't act on it it anyway. But there's nothing stopping us...except ourselves.  What's often disguised as laziness is just a lack of care. I've seen this especially with my parents, where even the threats of heart disease or diabetes don't force them to take their meds. These words, repeated to them so many times don't mean much anymore. Yes, heart disease is fatal, horrible is an understatemen...