This is Halloween…

… and I’m getting into the spirit of it.

My age…

Several times before, people have told me that I look younger than I really am. Even last night, when I told someone how old I was… it’s hard to describe the look on her face. I suppose I should take that as a compliment, that I still look young, but… I’m not saying I’m insulted by the notion, so much as confused. Every day I look in the mirror, I see some sign that I’m getting older. Like how my metabolism is slowing down, how the black spots around my eyes are becoming more visible, and the less I say about everything else the better. So how can I seem so young to some people, when I see myself aging every day? I don’t get it.

Respecting people’s privacy

Just now, I heard a commotion in the corridor. I looked through the peephole that my door is equipped with, and saw a group of people walking through the corridor. In itself this may be nothing, except one of them decided to look through my peephole herself. After a second or two, she said: “Too bad you can’t see anything on this side.” At the time, I wondered if that is indeed so, that it’s a one-way peephole (i.e. insiders can look out, and outsiders can’t look in), and that the reason she couldn’t look inside has nothing to do with the fact that I happened to have been looking through it myself at the same time as her. But now that I think about it, why would she want to be able to look inside anyway? It’s one thing to be curious about what happens outside one’s door, it’s quite another to wanna see what goes on behind someone else’s.

My thoughts about Star Trek

Anyone who knows me, knows that I’m not particularly a huge fan of Star Trek. I like a lot of shows, most of which are sci-fi ones, but I can’t bring myself to like Star Trek. In fact, the only reason I’m even watching the show, is because everyone keeps talking about it, so I watch it just to know what they’re talking about. And for those of you who are now thinking “why can’t you just admit that you like it?” Well, I need to genuinely like it before I can admit as much. But really, the original series is annoying, at times even painful to watch. The movies are… not particularly impressive, and “The Next Generation” is just boring. I mean, something bad is going on, and we see people talk about. How is it resolved? Well, by more talking, of course. And that’s not to mention I even remember having figured out the plot of one episode before the opening credits started. How can a show, which is about people going to new and unexplored spaces, be so dull?

And that’s when something weird happens. I began watching “Deep Space Nine”, which takes place on a space station, which stays in one spot all the time (well, in so far one can stay put in outer space, what with its orbit around a planet, stellar drift, and the like), and somehow it’s more interesting than the rest of the series. How can a series that almost literally goes nowhere, be so much more satisfying than one that takes us to different locations?