So to stir up my evening, I checked out the community pool. It took me back to the days in Kamloops of going to the Canada Games pool. People-watching, steam room politics, interpersonal sauna dynamics. At one point, I was laying in the shallow pool and I could smell someone's perfume and it sent me through a gauntlet of half-formed associations from like 8-10 years ago. Fuck, the sense of smell is so strange and magnificent. I can't say I'm a fan of people wearing cologne/perfume, but it sure does ignite my imagination. I meditated in the steam room and did some chanting (for lack of a better word), just repeated the sound 'om' and 'au'. Definitely made me relax a lot and I think it will help my meditation tonight. I haven't been lasting much longer than 5 minutes lately and I know I'm missing out on something. I did some random road exploring afterwards, and found some weird landscapes, but it was fairly dark, so it's hard to say if they were actually as weird as I perceived. Found a house underneath the big powerlines, poor chumps. I talked to Michelle yesterday about the possibility of me living with her and Ashlee when they move to Victoria. I'd be strapped-as-hell for cash though if I were to move when they do, which is at the end of april. I'm gonna aim for it though.
Why don't people ever talk about philosophy? It's like no one's interested in talking about the perspectives regarding the bigger questions of existence. There doesn't seem to be an aversion to it like there is to politics, yet there's the common knowledge is very lacking when it comes to such fundamental things as altruism, determinism, dualism, existentialism, hedonism, individualism vs collectivism (I hope this one is familiar at least), and objectivism vs subjectivism. Even such simple and common things as pessimism vs optimism aren't discussed very often, and when they are, it's done oversimplistically. It's like we've all become a bunch of realists, rationalists, and atheists without realizing it. Although I don't get to talk one-on-one and face-to-face with people very often, I'm gonna attempt to try subtly inject some philosophy into the conversation without the other person realizing it. Then at the end, I'd be like, "by the way, we just discussed the relative merits of positivism and scholasticism." That would be sneaky of me. A real trickster I am, mwahahaha. Anyways, basically what I'm saying is I'd like to see more everyday discussion on the abstract and intangible, or perhaps I'm just an escapist at heart.
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