Episode: 1772 Title: HPR1772: Random thoughts Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1772/hpr1772.mp3 Transcribed: 2025-10-18 09:05:34 --- This is HPR episode 1772 entitled Random Thoughts. It is hosted by Swift 110 and in about 12 minutes long. The summary is, I talk about some of the things I appreciate in life. This episode of HPR is brought to you by an honesthost.com. Get 15% discount on all shared hosting with the offer code HPR15 that's HPR15. Better web hosting that's honest and fair at An Honesthost.com. Hello, this is Swift 110 and I was just laying around pretty much and I came to a certain realization as I normally do after a nice long walk. I realize that what I'm doing right now, a number of people with questions. Part of what sparked this particular podcast is the fact that as I was sitting here at a bench next to a community center and the foreground, the kids playing on the playground in the distance. I'm sitting here and I was eating some of my lunch that I brought in the sign that this old wooden picnic table. I happen to be absolutely comfortable, absolutely happy when a woman comes down or not down the street, down the trail rather and she speaks, which is nice, high, high. And then she brings my attention to a green roof nearby where they're seating underneath and said that you know, it's a lot nicer than where you're at now. You know, sometimes the littlest things a person can say, sparks, thought processes in me. I analyze it, I analyze it basically everything. This time that analyzation I thought would be interesting because it goes back to how people think and what's comfortable for one person. Maybe completely different for another person. For instance, myself sitting here or laying in the sun is perfectly comfortable. It's relaxing. I don't care what time it is. But yet another person would be like, oh, I'm hot. I'm hot. It's uncomfortable. And you're thinking about the bugs that are thinking about all that instead of just sitting down and enjoying life for what it is. So often we get used to our little artificial environment, we have our AC. We got these controlled containers that we stay in during the day and we don't really appreciate the natural life that God has given us. We don't appreciate the sunlight on our face. We don't appreciate the trees. We don't appreciate the sound of children in the air enjoying themselves in the distance. We divorce ourselves from such things. We get trapped into this technological world where we're on a computer, we're on Facebook, we're trying to find out what's going on with the latest celebrities. I think we lose sight of who we really are as human beings when we do such things. It takes us to a certain level of, you know, artificiality, I don't think we focus so much on technology. Ironically I'm using technology as a means of communicating my feelings and thoughts right now. And I don't find anything wrong with that in itself, but when we get to the point where we're addicted and we have to constantly be connected to something all the time, then it's a whole, a whole other issue, you know, we shouldn't always have to have headphones out here. We should always have to be texting somebody while we're walking down the street, just be able to just sit down or relax and just kind of breathe. As I speak right now, the sun is on me and I find it very uncomfortable. The warming effects of something 93 million miles away from me, it's just a beautiful thing. When I think of heats and light traveling from that far in galaxy, and yet I made a benefit from it, I'm perfectly, you know, in this area where I can care less about what's going on around me pretty much, just more so than during the moment. The notion of just being alive, which I think is a tremendous privilege, sadly some people today didn't wake up today. Some people write me out of stuck in hospital beds, some people now are stuck in their homes, some people are disabled to the point where they're not able to do what I'm going right now. They're just stuck in an environment where someone else has to do the very basic things that sometimes I personally, and the rest of us probably take for granted on a day-to-day basis, whether it's doing something as simple as feeding ourselves or going to the bathroom or opening the door, walking outside, sometimes we lose sight of and forget these things. It just gets me thinking, you know, of how we have gone so far from what we were made to be in something totally else, another bad creation, so to speak. This time, not of God, but really of ourselves to use that creation concept loosely, it just really gets stuck into that artificial environment that we've created for ourselves, like I mentioned earlier, where everything has to be so neat and tidy and controlled, it's no room for spontaneity, no room for randomness, recklessness, no room for those kind of things. Sky is rather nice color, and it makes me think of a few weeks ago, I threw a couple of my friends, they were just talking about how nice it is to just sit down, and not to be at work, not to have to worry about somebody looking over your shoulder, not to have to worry about crunching your clot for that day. Those things are important, you gotta go to work and provide for yourself sometime, but it's good to have other times where you just don't have to clock in, and so talking with them was a very enjoyable thing, and just listening to the sounds in the ear, whatever they may be, and having that experience in the middle of the city like we were, it's pretty interesting, I would say the least, just, hmm, I don't know what's quite else what else to say at this point, since you're on the birds, I'm finding out how much you hear when you're not really trying to sound, it's just that way, I know if my mom was here, she would be having a few days, because she was being in the sun like I do, that's something we have in common, so it's kinda cool, incredibly relaxed right now, like this is pretty good, actually more comfortable now that I would be at home in my own bed, just in the air, just there, I guess, just a freedom of being outside of it, anyway, start, I'd be rammed today, just start talking, and that's pretty much it, I'll see you next time. Thanks for watching, I'll see you next time. Thanks.