still wondering: thoughtful insights & insightful thoughts

One thing I have never been good at is getting mail-in rebates in on time. I like to think that most people are just as terrible about keeping up with these kinds of things as I am. I say “these kinds of things,” as if by generalizing something so specific (and utterly ungeneralizable, might I add) as mailing in a rebate will somehow make me feel better about myself. The logic behind this is that it’s not as bad if I can convince myself that I’m not alone in being forgetful, and that a legitimate, marginalized collective of lazy assholes like myself exists.

Enter dissonance: When you have headphones on, and you’re listening to a great song, it’s so easy to convince yourself that the entire world is also hearing the same music you are. Well, no… I take that back. But it *is* easy to convince yourself that the entire world *should* be listening to the same music you are. The world at large would be better off, at least auditorally, at the melodiously, tyrannical mercy of a jukebox on your terms.