This Blog is a Lie

                I am an extremely unhealthy person. I don’t sleep enough, I don’t eat enough, I don’t exercise enough, I never stand up straight, I slouch when I sit, I practice music for hours without a break, and in most other ways I am not kind to my body. So how am I alive? What is the secret to living the mildly idiotic lifestyle I enjoy daily? The answer, dear reader, is symmetry.                 I confess, to draw you into reading this essay I may have said a slight lie. I did tell the truth but not the whole truth (so I guess I will help god? Isn’t that how that goes?). To become the moderately functional human being that I am I always balance my terrible decisions with slightly better ones. In this way I am able to enjoy the nonsense while still living and growing as a human being.        ...

                I could live without a phone. I didn’t have a phone until last summer, my parents and I both didn’t see the need, but I had always wanted one. When I was much younger, around 3 th or 4 th grade, I asked for a phone for the first time. I had no understanding of the amount of money that a phone costs and so naive me thought it was a perfectly reasonable request for a present. When my birthday came around I was mildly disappointed.                 I don’t know if anyone remembers the first-generation iPod Shuffle, but that was the gift I received. This was the rectangular generation before the square generation that everyone remembers most people don’t remember anyways. The additional half in inch in the 1 inch by 1 inch square of metal allowed the battery to last for almost a whole day of playing. This ended up being te...