Memories

Today's song is: Memories .. Maroon 5

When all is said and done, all life leaves us is memories. If you have ever tried to relive a memory you discovered it is not the same, and will never be the same.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

Heraclitus had it right in 470 BC and it remains true today. Where am I going with this?

Two things, the PC would change 'man' to 'person' and I am okay with that. Secondly, I reflect on my 10 years in Thailand and think about whether or not it will be the same when I finally get back in the summer of 2021. There is no doubt that many of my favourite bars will be gone as well as the ladies who I befriended in those bars. Ditto for my ex pat friends. Some may never return and I will be left with memories.

Memories are triggered by many things such as  a dream or more often than not, a song that recalls a good time. A favourite song of mine is by Pink ...

Just Give Me a Reason

This is the song that brings back memories of my first 3 outings with my wife Thavorn. Outings, not dates, as they were not planned but just happened. We spent those outings in Hillary 2 on Soi 4 (Nana) and thankfully, it has so far survived the covid -19 closures. Hillary 4 has not and it will be missed as Thavorn, Jaidan and I spent many afternoons there sitting at the rail watching the tourists and lifers walk by.

The staff knew us by sight and had watches Jaidan evolve form a 3 month old strapped to my chest to a 5 year old chatting in Thai to them .

When I arrive back in Thailand next summer, I will try to step back into the river and I hope I will not be disappointed. Life is what you make of it and you have to put yourself out there and embrace it and keep creating those memories ...

TTYL

Stupidity

Today's song is: Not a song but some Forest witticisms :-)

Forest Gump stated, 'Stupid is as stupid does'.

Tom Hanks who portrayed Forest is still shocked at many younger folks' reactions to Cov-19 and refusing to wear masks. How ever, I am not surprised.

A recent frat party in the states produced 100 positive cov-19 tests in the aftermath. These are supposed the brightest young people the states have to offer. Go figure.

One item of good news is that the province of Ontario has decided to scrap streaming in Ontario high schools as it penalises 'black' students.  If there are no role models in your classroom, what do you aspire to? The good news for me as the end results is that boys will be helped regardless of their race. Boys are overly represented in general level courses but no one seems to care about that.

However, don't be fooled by this as French immersion classes will continue and we all know that is also a form of streaming, but then again maybe the general population does not know.

If there is anything worse than the notion of  'white privilege' it is 'white male privilege'.  If you are a white male in this day and age, try getting a police, firefighter job, etc. Good luck with that.

I think the world is evolving around two long standing theories. The first being there is a limit to the population that a geographic area will support (hence cov coming out of the world's most populist country). The second is, Darwin's theory of evolution. The strongest and brightest will survive by adapting and the rest will succumb to pandemics.  Unfortunately in this day and age you have to add 'richest' into the mix as well.

Meanwhile back in the home I finished my 4th 'Lego' (actually a Chinese clone) car, and it was the most sophisticated yet.

Apart from trying to learn something new each day (why has Chrome stopped spell checking) and lose some covid weight gains, I shake my head and and think, 'What were they thinking', when the question may be, 'Why aren't they thinking!'

BTW, I work with some major school boards and some are reporting very large retirement rates as teachers vote with their feet after thinking about the past and coming school year.

TTYL