Street Thoughts

 I once saw a sentence painted on the wall: "I lost count of the years a day have".  At first glance, it's pretty obvious. The sentence is purposely wrong written (normally it's how many days a year have), but I believe it goes much deeper than that, and that's why it got stuck in my head for the longest time.  See, a day isn't just a day right. you don't merely live days like black mirror episodes that are entirely independent of each other. People wake up thinking about what it's need to do, problems or goals that have come from the past. Family and friends that are already contextualized in your life from previous events. History and culture from the last thousand years, rooted in our streets and buildings, in our language and gestures.  Every single thing we do from when we wake up till we go to sleep has a context of previous days, years, or even centuries and millenniums. Probably the only thing of today is the bread freshly baked, but even the w...

 Superman's arch-enemy, Lux Lethor once said:  “Some people can read War and Peace and come away thinking it's a simple adventure story. Others can read the ingredients on a chewing gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe” First of all, great sentence, I could write a whole essay about it. But that's the point, isn't it? I mean, you pulled one of these during a conversation, and suddenly you are Him. That's the power of a perfect quote, the power of good lines in books, movies, or even our own ideas, the amount of information comprised in one little sentence, in only a few words, and it says so much.  I believe that's where the popular sayings come from, little sentences that once heard are quickly stored and maintained in our memory (think about how many sayings you know), and then pass into generations because essentially they are fundamentally true, and tell you everything you need to know for the price of no effort to learn it.  I believe we need ...