Random Musings Today: Birthdays, Anime, etc

 i decided to muse randomly today, i know it has been a while (March 2nd).

Birthdays:

Once you hit 25, is there anything to really celebrate anymore?  Congratulations, you're one year closer to death.  Why would anyone want to live to 100 years old?  Have they seen 70–100-year-olds who are constantly taking pills, and whose senses (vision, hearing, etc) and joints are shot.

My paternal aunt has a repetitive birthday song - it starts with "we're glad you're not one.  We're glad you're not two".  It then goes up to the age the person is (x to n, where n is the current age).  i estimated that my alleged mother's recent birthday would have taken over 6 minutes to get to her age.

My Ideal Messed Up World

My reality is unsatisfying and disappointing.  The "modern world" is layers of abstraction stacked on top of each other.  Sometimes, technological dependence can seem more like an albatross than a boon.  Life was never meant to be a subscription service.

On the surface, there are more choices, but is that really a good thing?  Today is full of psuedo-decisions that are more programmed responses than actual conscious decisions.  There can be so many theoretical branching impacts of decisions that it can cause decision paralysis (where few decisions are actually made).  Most choice is little more than illusion.  In some ways, i think less options and more "real decisions" would be far preferable.

Idle wondering when i couldn't sleep led me to think what my warped view of a more perfect world would be.  i got another $1.99 each for 3 months deal on Crunchyroll, so that tempered my view a little (a lot of fantasy/medieval period type shows).