I don't want to remember when this serum is released

Is this where we want to go with science? The erasing of memories? Scientists have proclaimed to have done it with rats! Would humans be next? Are we already? It would almost make me wonder if Alzheimer’s is a manmade disease!? Certainly that sound far-fetched, but so does the actual news of science erasing the memories in the brain of a rat.. So there you go: erase your painful memories. Also.. the good ones.. also all of them. Just be a vacant vessel of nothing, where human emotion is meaningless and the purpose of life is lost. That’s the future if we erase memories.. Memories are meant to be shared, had.. and often lamented. And yes, painful memories should serve a purpose, too. A witness who sees a murder and then can’t remember it in court is pointless.. or even scarier, a woman who is given a date rate drug that erases the memory of the rape.. don’t tell me rapists wouldn’t want to get their disgusting hands on that serum..

Memories.. from the corner of my mind

This is going down a road that we may not want to.. 

Scientists are learning how to shape our memory by testing chemicals that can DELETE THEM!

Some memories are bad, and some who have went through awful stuff, well, they just want to forget it.

But when power as this rests in the hands of an elite few, to what end does that justify? Deleting memories, forever?

Shaping the reality we have lived? I find this scientific endeavor to be dangerous..

Stroll down amnesia lane

So I looked at yearbooks from my past last night. Amazing how much changes, isn’t it? I read some of the words people wrote in my yearbook.. Pages aren’t yellowing yet but they sure feel older than ever..

From yearbooks to Facebook. 
The old days to the modern age.

I’d love a chance to relive a few events.. but maybe not all.

11 things I am thinking about on 9/11

Forgive me for sounding selfish, but here is what I am thinking today.

I was ten years younger, just turned 21, had a whole life in front of me
My dog Newton still was happily alive
My mom and dad were younger. So was my brother and sister, niece and nephew.
I didn’t meet my wife yet.
I didn’t have my job yet.
I didn’t have this website yet.
I still used AOL instant messenger and ICQ
I didn’t have a child..
I didn’t have a college degree yet.
I had trust in authority.
I had more privacy than I do today.
9/11/01 through 9/11/11… A lot of things around our world changed. And a lot of stuff in our collective lives changed, as did a lot of things in our private lives. Too much for comfort maybe.

…by the time 9/11/21 comes, God knows where we’ll be. But I can tell you 2021 will be here before we know it. Time continues no matter what we do to stop it. No plastic surgery will stop death. No amount of cream will stop wrinkles. No amount of liquor will stop grief. We are all in this together.

Evolution continues. Life continues…as those beams of light from Ground Zero softly go into the air.

Good evening, all.