We are the intrauterine competition winners.
Few days ago, Elena Zoe Ceusescu, daughter of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu lost the battle against cancer and now is smog and dust. God bless her.
At the same time one stupid, stupid as mach as Romanians could be, (I am native Romanian), started debate regarding religious signs in low schools. Well, for the unfamiliar people with orthodox area, those are Byzantine type paintings on glass, wood with silver and gold or copies. This remember me a huge movement of changing the portraits of Ceausescu from classrooms due the fact the current portrait have only one ear and in Romanian language this mean "crazy".
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. Remember all the people, things, experiences, triumphs, failures (and resulting lessons learned) that you have to be thankful for. Theres sure a lot (good or bad) I feel incredibly lucky about. There’s a story I think of Warren Buffett — who asked billionaire John Kluge how much he’d pay to live another year. Most rich old men would give their fortunes away. Time is the one completely inelastic good we have.
As Richard Dawkins has said with morbid pragmatism...“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.”
