munch

I was surveying along the Jordan-Syrian border one day, and I had never spent so much time in wheat fields before.  They get a good amount of rainfall there, so there is actually a good amount of green and vegetation....

But anyways about the wheat fields.  I started picking a few of the wheat beards along my transects and found myself eating the seeds.  It's actually kind of like eating sunflower seeds, you have to pick out one of the beards and separate the shell/beard before you can eat the actual seed.  It was very crunchy and the taste was sort of like a granola bar.  

Eventually I decided to collect a few stalks and collect and chew 50-60 seeds or so at once, and to my surprise it turned into GUM and got a little sweeter I think.  I even pulled it out of my mouth and it looked like any piece of chewing gum.  What is the significance of this?  I invented my own gum damn it.

human emotion

So I've been thinking that humans have 4 core feelings. I don't usually like to categorize things like this that are kind of out of reach to really comprehend, but I'm convinced people's moods are degrees of:

Anger

Fear

Joy

Sadness

Okay, so I sorted them into those 4, but right after I did that, I noticed something. Joy is alone. Anger, Fear, and Sadness are all usually ugly and negative. So then I thought, wow, we humans are doing all right. If my idea is right, we are doing well just living around each other considering it is in our nature 75% of the time to be upset about something.

Wait, Ryan you can't divide up human emotions like that!  Who the hell do you think you are!! RAHHH plus...who spends 75% of their life without Joy?  Hmm, maybe some do, bummer.  But for the most part, even I don't think that's true, but something should be said for the fact that we are hardwired for only one core, positive emotion.