It's strange to me that this year is 2011. Ten years ago it was 2001. I remember when I couldn't believe it was 2001. Remember the space odyssey?
Every year I seem to experience what I call temporal disbelief: the inability to accept that a particular year has at last arrived. It's not the kind of condition that occurs every minute of every day, but once in a while I'll stare at the calendar in disbelief and feel unable to understand how I got to this point in time.
How about that shooting in Arizona? How about those riots in Egypt? What a crazy month January 2011 has already been. I can't even imagine what being in those types of situations would be like, but I hope for resolution and peace for all parties, especially the victims.
If we were all reasonable people in all kinds of circumstances, how would being reasonable affect our daily behavior? Is it possible for people to always be reasonable? I suspect not, but it can't hurt to try. Of course, perhaps we all have different definitions of reasonable.
I like raisins with my reason.
