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So when i say birthdays are made up and you scoff and roll your eyes, think about this: we as a species, a humanity, choose to view our years cyclically with numbers and dates, calculated. We repeat the same months and days and hours. What if we just counted up? What if we didn't keep track at all? Then there would be no "birthdays" and there would be no celebration of that birth accept when you were actually born. All the world is a perception. We get confused with history and technology. We forget that history is written by the victorious, so large swaths of information go undocumented. We feel like what is has always been. Things like electricity and the telephone. We cant see the forest for the trees and forget how much these things and things like it have dramatically shaped our mindset. The call this the "Information Age" and we thrive off these statistics. We use them to compare ourselves most of all in attempts to push "ahead" but to what I'm not sure. We just race like we know the goal. Why not take it slow? There is nothing technically saying that we can't but most people would not believe we could and that is exactly what keeps us from it. There are no rules that say it must be survival of the fittest where if suddenly all became benevolent that another authority would swoop down and punish us. This is just what the vast majority of the populatiom believes. We create our reality though, and i dont mean in the "positivity brings happiness" type of bullshit but literally if no one went to work tomorrow and just for no reason decided, "Nah, ill just stay home..." The buildings arent going to come looking for us to keep running them. The toys and cars wont come begging to be produced. We create all that need for those things by believing them to be important.  So just keep your mind open. Look for new points of view. Because they are usually pretty interesting.

Mav