Portraits of People

It’s been awhile since my last entry, and it feels good to be using wordpress once again. To be honest, I’ve been busy. So busy in fact that I’ve begun to neglect aspects of my existence that I hold in highest regard. As always, I seem to spend my life in transit, sitting next to people who I don’t know and feel nervous around. Like many others I take the metro (subway) for 2 hours everyday.

One small benefit of long commutes is the chance to sit down and think without feeling the pressures of being unproductive. The only thing I try to produce during my commutes are cloudy thoughts and cynical critics of mass society. I try to sketch down my ideas and read them when I get home from work. More often than not they have little value, but sometimes I find the odd snippet that is funny and amusing. For example:

1. Running to catch a subway is so fucking cliché that I try to never do it. I just don’t want to be that guy on the other side of those doors who is standing there like an asshole, his greatest efforts running got him nowhere and he is now a mockery to everyone on board the metro.

2. I have a hard time understanding anyone that stills wears religious garments – it is such an explicit public declaration of faith that went out of vogue in the 17th century, I find it fascinating and terrifying at the same time. Unless they know something I don’t I’m inclined to call them crazy. Why hasn’t God told me what to wear?

I’m going to try and get back into this slowly. It’s been awhile and I would like to have a graceful entry. Now it’s time to drink some coffee and be productive.