The world is racing right before our eyes and changing so fucking fast.

Why did I think this today? Because I ran past this construction zone and realized that they’re finally semi-done with this new section they’ve been building forever on the WSH.  Its been growing and changing before my eyes for 9 years and sometimes it feels like its been a week.

Side note: Why is it that watching the subway pull away so much worse than knowing it left a min ago?

Side note (on another note): Why is another subway pulling up RIGHT after the one u missed so much more satisfying than just boarding a subway I waited 2 minutes on the platform for?

I watched my nephew Aharon play this game on my i-touch and realized that it took him about one minute to figure it out.  he’s 2 years old.   If I saw any kind of form of this type of game at his age I would think one of the following things:

A – I’m on drugs
B – my aunt is on drugs
C – we are in the future today
D – we won the lottery and bought the coolest toy on planet earth

Here’s what I suspect: The stuff that every kid is growing up with today basically makes it really hard to differentiate between what’s real and what’s not.  Everything is possible.  Cartoons look like people.  What they do should and could be done by people.  This would be MY reasoning if i were 3.

This world is changing, evolving, moving (just like it has for quite some time) and all we think about it keeping up.  But… is “keeping up” with these changes actually holding us back?  Do we have too many choices? Did we forget how to look at each other and just talk? Is that a good or bad thing? Maybe looking at people and talking is totally overrated?

I have a feeling that most people don’t remember phone numbers anymore…but then again what good are numbers in our head? Why was is better to live in a time where that part of your brain was more developed?  Was it really useful to know how to add after the calculator was invented?

Side note: Math sucks.

No matter what happens to us, the human race, I hope we continue to find a reason to run.  I hope people don’t stop playing outside.  Sitting outside, chillin outside, drinking outside, talking to each other outside without actually needing a cell phone nearby (which will turn into a brain chip soon enough, Errrr, gross).

You can’t type laughing and you can’t type screaming and you can’t type running and i know i need all three.  I would hate a world without them.

Side note: someone actually coughed in my drink last night.  I just remembered that and it made me gag.

Side note (seriously I’m not kidding): that same someone actually coughed in the new drink I got at the bar as a result of him coughing in it.

I hope we continue to go places with our feet, from one place to the next, with some type of urgency because there’s actually something or someone we want to get to other than what’s in front of us on our virtual screens or in our virtual heads.

Here’s why I think time travel will be possible: because our worlds will become so virtual that all we have to do it press rewind and we would be in a simulated version of our past.

When that happens, the hoverboard and flux capacitor will be a total joke.

Michael j fox you lied to us.

By the way – I’m typing this on my Blackberry as I walk down the street in Chelsea through the flower district.  Almost bumped into the same dude I almost bump into every day.