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  <-----Me in a few weeks.  

I have to admit, my answer for this is a pretty self-centered one.  It wouldn't be to eliminate war, which would be tempting to chose for me.  It would be to have the power to experience your life choices, but then kind of rewind them to make another choice, kind of like that Nicholas Cage movie with Jessica Biel.  I can't remember the name of it, but that's what he could do.  He could see any option, basically experience it but then go back and make another choice.  That way he always got what he wanted.

There's so many things I've fucked up on, usually based on my over-whelming insecurities, that I would go back and change if I could.  I hate to be one to live in regret, but come on, I'm not a millionaire.  Why not at least go back and make that happen?  Life is so much easier when you have a cash cushion.

Being sick is the worst.  You have to put your whole life on hold.  It's an excuse to not doing anything...but when you get better all that stuff you didn't have to do is still there waiting for you to do it.

If i weren't so sick I'd answer the writer's block question today and present my own as well.  For now, I'm skipping my Human Sexuality class and just resting and eating food.  Probably drink lots of tea and orange juice too.

I hope you're all healthier than I am.

Kind of ironic that I'm writing a paper on how the mind affects health.  So true, i've been super stressed the past few days over school and stuff.  Looking forward to getting healthy and getting school shit done.

I read an article today on the Huffington Post that explained the question of Why are we here? by simply saying we are here because we decided to be.  Our existence and reality lies in our consciousness.  It's a new theory called Biocentricism and challenges the concepts of both God and Evolution aka the Big Bang Theory.  Here is an excerpt:

"Indeed, according to biocentrism, it's us, the observer, who create space and time (which is the reason you're here now). Consider everything you see around you right now. Language and custom say it all lies outside us in the external world. Yet you can't see anything through the vault of bone that surrounds your brain. Your eyes aren't just portals to the world. In fact, everything you experience, including your body, is part of an active process occurring in your mind. Space and time are simply the mind's tools for putting it all together.

Theoretical physicists Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow recently stated:

There is no way to remove the observer -- us -- from our perceptions of the world ... In classical physics, the past is assumed to exist as a definite series of events, but according to quantum physics, the past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.'"

This is very similar to the idea in the book and movie The Secret about the Law of Attraction and how we attract things into our life by our thoughts.  It's also very similar to Eckart Tolle's idea in The Power of Now about the concept of time being an illusion.  As with psychoneuroimmunology, our thought process, attitude and state of mind have more control over things in our life (i.e. health) than we have generally, previously believed.

With that said I'd replace "Have a nice day!" with something like "Think nice thoughts!"

Although I normally kill on a fury of screaming and spraying raid when I see a cockroach in my home, I would make this one my friend.  If I'm gonna be alone forever I might as well learn to see the beauty in it.  I'd need something with another heart beat around.