Solipsistic pasta

Dear future historian,

Not much today. Family time. Listening to podcasts while washing dishes and doing the laundry.

Oh, I also spent some time in my uni's philosophy forum. And.. they had a topic about immortality! (I love uni.) Exploring the possibility of getting bored at some point, if you don't die! And only yesterday I was writing to you about Sisyphus. 'Is it getting Solipsistic, or is it just me!' I was also thinking the other day of a kind of pasta that I liked in Greece and that I haven't found it here.. next super market visit.. I found them! 

Poem: If all the MEs

If all the MEs that spend the night alone could meet.. we'd have the best night ever! 

It would be a hot-summer, full-moon, clear-sky night.

We'd talk about ideas, ask for advice, do different things to our hair, watch a movie..

We'd laugh and weep and sing..

If all the MEs ever met.. maybe the World would come to an end.

It would still be a great night though!

And then I'm thinking..

Maybe happiness isn't to have someone every night to spend with..

Maybe happiness is to be in such harmony with your selves.. that if you ever met your YOUs.. it would be the best night ever!

I love the Moon

Dear future historian,

I have to travel to London in 2 days. During a pandemic!

Like, what if the Doctor was coming with the Tardis, and she landed in London during the Black death, or something. 

It's like..

About Short Stories

Dear future historian,

I didn't always appreciated short stories. They left me an uncomfortable feeling, like hearing a song for the first time. I thought that they don't give me enough time to connect with the characters, emotionally, or feel that I have enough evidence to make a certain moral judgment about them.

It was only last year that I realised the ability that short stories have to teach us how to zoom and focus in the moment, in the 'Here and Now.'

Plus I feel lately that I just can't make a long term commitment to a story atm. You see, I always spend a lot of time thinking of the characters and the plot of any novel I read. But now I have to focus on other things, quite a lot of things.

Lotus

Hello dear future historian,

Just a quick thought today, to show you my new ring.

You know.. my childhood self hated my Lotus name.

I would get so upset if I knew that I would proudly wear that ring!

In Greece people can't even pronounce it (which makes even more ironic the fact that now people can't pronounce my last name, here in the UK. :-p And why did they write it with 'ou' on my Greek passport anyway? What does 'Lotous' suppose to mean?) 

Anxiety (22 June 2020)

Dear future historian,

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Have I told you how I panic over everything?

My day starts with a list, unrealistically long, and it ends with frustration at the un-checked tasks.

Why don't I readjust the length of the list? I thought you'd ask me that. My dear dear, naive, future historian.

I dont know if you live with AI house-robots, or in a post-apocalyptic scenario of the future, but a to-do list of people in 2020 is crazy.

Add uni and 2 kids and the expectations are beyond the 24 hours of the day.

Now.. add autism, OCD, ADHD and dyspraxia symptoms, and BAMM! You got yourself a recipe for anxiety. 

June 21st

Dear future historian,

Today was the longest day of the year.

I went out and hugged a beautiful tree, Tree-meditated; and I stayed out till the sunset to Sun-meditate. 

Whatever

Dear future historian,

I wrote that many hours ago.. but I wasn't sure if I should share it. 

At the end I thought that.. what's the point of writing if I am not honest with who I am?

So.. here it is:

Thinking-ourselves-into-existence

-       - I am a double personality.

-       - I am not a double personality. We are just two people in one. Not something like a shampoo with a conditioner; more like peanut-butter and jam, in one sandwich.

-       - What are you talking about? You are confusing the readers.

-       - Whatever.

#standfortrees

Dear future historian,

My 11 year old daughter send me this today.

Red-eyes-evil characters in cartoons

Dear future historian,

Has people spotted yet in your time the fact that red-eyes-evil characters in cartoons promote skin colour racism?

I noticed that my 6-year-old is really convinced that all bad guys can be spotted by their eye colour.

I don't even know where to start with that!

That stereotype first of all tricks children into the idea that malevolence is spottable.