Beginnings and endings...

Thoughts from the shower... I really need a thought reading app (waterproof too), I never have these thoughts at convenient times, my mind goes off on a ramble and by the time I have pen or keyboard in hand the thoughts have usually vanished. So why did I decide to start a blog today 1/1/11?

This is no different to any other day in the grander scheme of things, it's just another day in the line of days that started the day I was born and will continue with ever increasing haste until I die. But within and without that long line (is it linear?) of a beginning and end there are other beginnings and endings; lifetimes, seasons, years, months, sunsets and sunrises, hours and seconds. These occur without our doing but we have we've divided and managed some of them for our own convenience along the way, time is one, we even try to mess with it and put it backwards and forwards to suit. So today is really just symbolic and comes from the calendar that I was brought up with. It doesn't even mark the end and beginning of a season, much more sensible to have it at the start of Spring if you ask me... but you didn't and nor did they.

We are ruled by beginnings and endings... So when did my life begin? The day I was born? When I was conceived? Before that... an egg, a cell, a thought? Before that even, are we all connected somewhere, somehow at the beginning, the big bang, stardust... before that? Am I connected to the chickens? I must be if we all came from one point, unless... alien chickens? Let's not go there (you can if you want to).


I won't (can't) delve into the complexities of it all, I'm no expert. That's for another blog somewhere out there, one belonging to a scientist or philosopher not me, I'm just someone trying to make sense of it all and usually failing. So... 1st January is where I start, a symbolic starting point, as good as any other. Why am I even recording these thoughts? I could keep them in my head, I certainly don't expect people to read this unless they want to. Perhaps it's just another way for me to make sense of ideas before they vanish.

So there it is out of my head and on paper and screen.

Happy New Year!