Tuesday, July 15, 2008

It's interesting...




It's interesting to me that being really happy changes your priorities and outlook on just about.. well.. everything.

I'm sorry a thousand times over to people I've either lost touch with or just have been failing to go hang out with as of late. I'm finally feeling the ground back under my feet and I'm also contently not walking alone.

I was talking with Rei about how people often say "I'm the same person I was back then". If you stop and sit still long enough to really think deep into it, it makes you wonder.. how much have you changed? Sure, your core self may be the same however, different experiences influence the person that we become. And of course if it were possible to go back into the past with the knowledge of yourself and life that you know now.. how different could things have been.

On a sci fi note, it's like wondering about the whole cloning thing. Keep this in mind about cloning.

Clone - Noun
1.Biology.
a.a cell, cell product, or organism that is genetically identical to the unit or individual from which it was derived.
b.a population of identical units, cells, or individuals that derive from the same ancestral line.
2.a person or thing that duplicates, imitates, or closely resembles another in appearance, function, performance, or style: All the fashion models seemed to be clones of one another.

Current technology allows people to clone what.. pets that have died? Now what if we could clone ourselves or people? Here's the point where I have to wonder how that works. If I clone myself, and it came out as a baby that had to grow up, not just fully grown xerox version, how different would my clone (baby form) be from me since it/he wouldn't have the same experiences I did growing up?

Ok geek moment over. This Wed is Rei's birthday but sadly I have to work. So I took her out Sunday and kinda Monday also. Sunday we got to see Cirque Shanghai at Navy Pier and with the tickets got to do a bunch of other stuff there. It wasn't as epic as I would have wanted, but it was still pretty sweet. Oh and Monday was officially five months. Odd though, it seems like it's been so much longer.. but in a good way. As cheese as it sounds, I have to say sometimes.. life can just full out SMACK you in the face with a pleasant surprise when you least expect it.

Also, I haven't forgotten, Joan's bday is also Wed! I know right? jeez. Two others had birthdays last week, my mom has a birthday at the end of the month. Yall July people just need to calm down and let me get caught up financially k? Thanks.

Wow.. I'm drained.. must sleep. Later for now.. I definitely would like to talk to alot of you I havent had a chance to as of late.

- Nat

2 comments:

Call Me Joan said...

Yay, picture! And yay for Rei's birthday on Wednesday! (July 16th rules!) Please wish Rei a very happy birthday from me. Thanks for the shout-out, too. :)

-J and the rest of the zoo

PS: Re: cloning - think about identical twins... Same DNA, different people, right?

Anonymous said...

my birthday is tomorrow too. :D

Glad to hear everything's going better with you.

-matt