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0065D: Evolutionary Experiences
Today's the birthday of the captain of a certain "little ship" a lot of us geeks have come to love over the years. While the Defiant has made way for the Excelsior apparently, it doesn't matter what the ship is but more who captains her. Happy Birthday, Jon!!!

And yes, I'm still looking for an apartment. Still not king. Sam will kill him if he tries anything.

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When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.
- Scytale, from Dune Messiah

People naturally compromise in time, I think that has to be a universal truth. Whether it's a willing gesture on our part in order to meet someone have way or perhaps the only option left to us in order to make the best of an increasingly crummy situation, we do this in order to survive without too much disappointment and regret in our lives. Some could call it part of our innate tendencies to be good while others could go all clinical and say it's part of our learned ability to adapt to our environment and thus ultimately our circumstances. There's nothing wrong with compromise in itself - I guess it's all a matter of degree or whatever.

In school, one will inevitably hear of Plato's classic Allegory of the Cave, the one about the prisoners watching the shadows formed by people passing near the cave entrance. It's a story about how we come to accept certain things to be real but only through time, experience and perhaps thinking beyond our horizons will we realize that they're just shadows and there's more to reality than that. While I always appreciate the value of this particular story, I've never really been what you could call a devoted fan or something of the concept. As with most things, you never fully appreciate things when you first encounter them - it's only with a second, third of a millionth look do things really start to make sense and take on more meaning. It's the joy of the human experience that we learn more about the universe around us and every new thing often reveals new facets of things we though we already knew everything about.

This is definitely a transition period for me, but not just about my recently concluded relationship. It's also become a time to really think about myself in all this, what I've accomplished thus far, who I am today and where I may eventually be headed. As with most mental exercises of this nature for an introvert like me, it's been a rather enlightening experience and one that I hope will help me come out of all this a much better person from an overall perspective of sorts. Then again, what is truly "better" in this life, yes? It's ultimately a question of scale, perspective and individual judgment.

Change is always scary. It means not fully knowing what will happen next. It means leaving the comfort of familiarity for the uncertainty of risk. But with risk comes progress, adventure and new experiences and whether things turn out good or bad, you know you'll come out all the better for it at the end of this leg of your journey. Accepting new realities and going against what you used to believe was absolutely true is tricky, to say the least, but important in our lives. The human experience is about evolving, trying to become better and yet being ready for the fact that not everything will go perfectly, things will inevitably get messy somewhere along the way and there will be some degree of pain here or there. But with the pain comes a lot of happiness, too. With the suffering comes bliss. I can keep going on naming opposites and parallels but that just might turn this into a Yoda-esque monologue.

Let's just end things with this:

In brightest day, in blackest night.
No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power...Green Latern's might!

I think I've joined the Corps. Either that or I've become a Visionary.

Either way, I feeling pretty stellar now. *beams*

I guess Scytale was wrong then.

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I am a Gamer, and proudly so. =D