My father always used to say:
"Last thing I remember, I was 18 years old, standing on a streetcorner with my friends. This morning I woke up with a wife, 3 kids and a mortgage."
Xaphanos
joined 1 year ago
I'll upvote again.
- Dragonslayer
- Excalibur
- Time Bandits
...drilled over 4,000ft into the earth’s mantle...
No, they didn't.
You missed "become poor" and "have his family turn on him".
As I understand, it is the opposite. As photons move at c, time does not pass for them - they do not age. From the pov of the photon, it is created and destroyed simultaneously. Even thought we observe it to take time to travel through space. Per special relativity.
I wonder how that new truck was paid for.
Time is the coin of your Life.
It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.
Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
And when you spend it, spend it wisely so that you get the most for your expenditure.
~Carl Sandburg
This is the best in a while. So earnest. So perfectly innocently confident in SovCit Truths. And so about to slam into reality in a painful way.
About names: My lastname was changed on my great grandfather in a unique way. My fullname (and my son's) is globally unique - and rather long. I had considered changing it, but I already have to sign a lot of name affidavits whenever a legal or financial issue comes up.
I believe parts of Sicily have those characteristics.