Being human is important to me. Not because I find it a particularly commendable thing to be, but because it’s what I am. I try to do it as well as possible, be human that is. It’s all I can do, given I never got to choose what kind of existence I wanted. I think that to do well at being human, you have to enjoy it, and that’s what I try to do. My efforts involve getting as much joy and adrenaline as I can out of cycling, windsurfing, playing tennis. I like to feel my muscles working, feel my blood pulsing in my arms, and the leverage of all my joints working together in perfect fluidity andcoordination to allow me to be active. I think that as long as you can enjoy feeling human at least once a day, you can feed off of that long enough to survive the things that suck about it; things like dishonesty, betrayal, heartbreak, disillusionment. I also think keeping my human ness in mind is important as a citizen of the world because I think the more we stray away from our human ness the greater danger we face as a race; as we strive to control every single aspect of our lives we may in fact be stumbling toward a Babel-like defeat. Because we have foreseen every predator, every potential threat against us but one: ourselves. Not to mention the fact that it can get hard to relate to people unless you keep in mindthat they too are human.
Ok here are a few details about myself like you were expecting to find:
I haven’t lived in SF my whole life but I consider it my home. California I love. Immensely. I love film and pineapple and silk. I don’t like being lost. I’m too organized to enjoy it. But I do enjoy the idea of not knowing where I am- its liberating. I believe in the words of Shakespeare, and Michael Franti. I speak two languages, and I am desperate to learn more. Several more.
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