Everybody needs a job? 10.15.2011
I take public transport to work every day. I take two subways and a tram to get to the office. Two methods of transportation which run on rails. There's no real traffic involved here. Just a one-way rail system from which a train cart can never deviate.
I used to sit and wonder what the hell a driver is actually doing inside his little drivers cabin at the front. Are they busy communicating with Control? Do they need to shift gears in there? Do they have to monitor all sorts of meters and gauges?
Our trams here in Rotterdam have glass cabins so you can actually see what they do in there. Let me tell you, it's nothing close to what you think a person capable of tying their shoelaces should be doing for a living…
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I believe there is a phenomenon where people who have too much time on their hands and not enough responsibilities, find it hard to motivate themselves to start and do something. Anything. The thought that there is so much time to fill and too many activities to do paralyses them in essence from making choices. It makes them unable to choose an activity to pursue and they end up not doing much at all. This kind of ties in to the Paradox of Choice.
About 7~8 months ago I dropped a knife on my big toe. It slid off the kitchen counter and landed, handle first luckily, on my big toe. It struck it's target just behind my toenail, hitting me square in the 
Earlier today I was in the kitchen and I can't remember why, but somehow I just thought back to a situation I was in a couple months ago.