Inspiration

I watched Julie & Julia last night and I loved it. Julie blogged about her experiences as she cooked through Julia Child's recipes and it eventually ended up affecting many others and also saved her in some ways. I have thought about blogging many times before but often thought it could more wasted time than anything else. However, in the past few months as I begin to entertain the concept of 30 and all that has happened in my lifetime and all that I think and feel and want to share, I think in the least its a good outlet, and I hope that maybe someone might read my blog and maybe even be inspired.

I turn 30 on February 24, 2010. As of today, December 31, 2009, I have 54 days to go. I want to write down my feelings and thoughts in the next 54 days. I am more or less an ordinary girl, I don't have any major issues, I have a great family and great friends, and so I thought it would be good to write about what someone relatively normal in North America, in particular in Canada, feels and thinks about turning 30 in today's world.

First of all tonight is new year's eve. Another new year's eve where most of my feelings begin to crash down on me about the state of affairs of certain things, in particular the state of the world and in lower points of the day I tend to get a bit sad about the fact that I am still not in love. I try and quickly ignore the issue as the world has bigger problems and I am definitely one of the luckiest ones. But soon the lack of a partner links to the world's political problems which I will explain some other day.

The state of the world today is what crushes me usually, sometimes paralyzes me. I spent most of my twenties in the post-9/11 era. Can you imagine? Images and sounds of suicide bombings, drones, carpet bombings, rockets, black hawks, and so on have been a staple on television, websites and other media for so long. My question has always been: WHY HAVEN'T WE LEARNED?

Did we not recently go through two world wars? Since recorded history there have been the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the Mugals, partitions, world wars and many more wars and each have caused enormous calamity. I would have thought by now we would have figured it out. I thought by now we would have peace in the world, understanding, and on top of that we would have solved issues like hunger, common diseases, and energy issues. The very obvious issue is that we can, I know we can. I am a scientist by training and I know the science and technology is out there. I know that if we can send men to the moon and make a robotic hand that takes command from the user's own brain, that we can stop fighting, we can solve hunger, and we can have clean energy.