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[jedusor]

I've been sitting here for fifteen minutes, watching the world go by and thinking about its physiology, how insane and wonderful it is that everything works so well, that existence has come as far as it has and that it has the potential to just keep getting cooler.

Every time I say something like that, my friends start getting all nostalgic for college. Does that mean you grownups never get caught up in the sheer awesomeness of everything anymore?

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[rubrick.livejournal.com]

Still happens to me. I'll look at, say, the Golden Gate Bridge, and it will suddenly occur to me holy shit, this was built by organisms. Take a tiny snippet of replicating molecule and a few billion years and you can get this. I don't plan to ever stop being dumbfounded.

[1firefly.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I have never really pondered existence much at all. But I do get caught up in your sheer awesomeness!!
Go figure.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

*grins* Thanks.

[rpipuzzleguy.livejournal.com]

I don't think I got caught up in awesomeness even while I was in college.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

There's more time for it in college, but it can still hit you now and then if you leave yourself open to it.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Wait, life gets busier after college? Aaaaauuuuugh!

[mh75.livejournal.com]

Life, if anything, is more awesome than it was in college. But i don't have as much time dedicated to 'sittin on a bench' as i used to.

[uncanny-npl.livejournal.com]

I have to say that the world's awesomeness is much more immediately obvious to me now than it was when I was younger. For one thing, unlike a lot of grownups, I actually do have more time to look at it than I did back then, and for another, I tended in earlier days to see most things through the lens of my own mood and circumstances, whereas now I can more easily drift away from those things.

PS: one of things I love most about you is your capacity for awe!

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

I would say that it gets harder to find people with whom you can - or perhaps it would be more accurate that to say that it gets harder to find situations in which you can talk about and share that wonder at the world. And since sharing it amplifies it, it does get somewhat harder, I think.

So find a partner who does it. :) It's one of my favorite things about Mr. E.

In some cases I think I get more boggled by the world than I used to. Because when I was a kid and learning about this stuff, I didn't have any context, you know? I just sucked in the facts like a little sponge. Now I'll see a picture of like, an elephant, and have to stop and go "Holy shit! Elephants are so weird-looking! Look at that fucking nose! Jesus!" And when I was a kid I remember just sort of taking that for granted, yup, elephants have big noses.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hardly ever do it with other people. Definitely no one I know at Clark. I think I'm just not very good at connecting with people my own age--I have plenty of friends, but the only one I feel like I've really bonded with emotionally is a 46-year-old returning student. Anyway, these moods almost always hit me when I'm not interacting socially.

[elgecko.livejournal.com]

The more I learn about how things work, the more fascinated I am.