I left my stomach in Billy Bombers......

And indeed I did. After a dinner with the FWFCers consisting of mainly burgers and fries ( what I call an Atkins' Nightmare ) and a vanilla milkshake to boot. Uggggghhhhhhh..........

Well, if I'm suffering now from indigestion, at least I suffered for a good reason. ( Can you imagine getting indigestion from, say, too much limpy lettuce leaves?? Bad enough you have to eat those things, but that you'd get indigestion from them as well??? )

*BURP* Excuse me.......

And thank ye, for the [usual] kino vouchers and the 2 CDs. :) :) :) Your vouchers will go towards the Harry Potter 6 Fund and the Keane CD is amazing....... the lyrics are.... comfortable. The sort of songs that you make you feel like you're trapped in a lovers' caress, lying on a soft bed of grass with endless blue skies above you.

Sigh............ I miss Europe........ again........

Currently listening to: Untitled 1

A house on fire
A wall of stone
A door that once was open
An empty face and empty bones

Who ate your heart?
You're cold inside
You're not the one I hoped for
I'll see you on the other side
I'll see you on the other side

If only life was such that I could do nothing but lay in endless sleep, with this music constantly in my ears...

Life at 30

For lack of any tangible event in my life to blog about, let's try thinking of weird stuff, the kind of stuff that pops up in your head but is quickly dismissed with a thought. [If nothing, it'll help me to hone my writing skills...] Today's thought that's been floating around in my head is: What if all of us died at 30?

Firstly, let's define this more clearly. Let's take it that humans have always died at 30. Every generation since Adam dies on the last day of their 30th year on Earth. [This takes away the scenario where everyone from our generation onwards dies at the age of 30] What kind of society would have evolved from this?

Children would mature earlier, in order to lengthen the number of childbearing days they have on earth. Hence, most likely our kids would reach puberty at say, 10, giving them 20 years to give birth to and raise their kids to a suitable adult age. Early developers would reach puberty at 8.

Premarital sex would be encouraged, and approved of. Considering that each human only has on average 20 years of childbearing years, all efforts have to be undertaken in order to make sure the population maintains itself. Thus, humans will multiply like rabbits. We'd become parents at 12, grandparents at 24, and hopefully, before we die, see our great-grandchildren at 29.

Would there still be menopause? Most likely not, since it would reduce the childbearing years of a woman. [I'm assuming that the human body here dies at the peak of their physical health, rather than a rapid degeneration]

How would this affect society in general? The rate of change of society would be even higher, since new generations of humans are being produced every 12 or so years. Our values, our ideals would change at a greater rate than now. The societal structures and hierarchies we have now might not exist in such a society, since some, like the monarchy of England, have survived, well, ever since there was an England. They could do this because there was long enough time to indoctrinate an entire generation to their ideals. Here, there wouldn't be enough time, because there won't be time to properly brainwash each generation to their ideals, and the founders would die off long before they had the chance to firmly entrench their ideals.

The rate of technological innovation would not likely be high. Some of our scientific innovations took their inventors years of tireless research in order to achieve. Without the time needed to complete their research, it is likely that these scientists would not see many of their research realized. Our society may linger longer in the Middle Ages because of this lack of change.

However, at the same time, this slow rate of change would be balanced by the fast rate of change in other sectors. Since humans have a much shorter lifespan in this world, it is likely that they will go all out to achieve their dreams, since it is clear that the time they have to do so is severely limited. Children will be taught independence from an early age, and will start chasing their goals early.

Mental, intellectual and emotional development will also be accelerated. Being independent from a young age forces young kids to quickly learn to take care of themselves, and to hurriedly choose their goals in life and work towards achieving them. Life suddenly becomes all that much more precious, because of its lack of it.

Would it be a better world? Not necessarily. But it will be different.