Summer at its end....

Summer 2009 flew. Flew by, like there is no tomorrow. I had a great summer - visited Bermuda, learned that I like cruising in the Atlantic, and began to appreciate the beach a lot more.

Read a lot this summer as well and realize that of all the talks of perception and perspective......I am lacking in such qualities. Or perhaps, I was right about myself, unable to maintain perception. There is a lot of good in this world but there is a lot of very bad in this world. It scares me that there is so many bad people, bad things. How can they possibly think it okay to do those bad things? As a scientist, I understand that there are biological/chemical reasons that would make one believe it feel good to do bad things. But how does a normal human being like doing bad things? Most people have a sense of right or wrong. Man, perhaps, we need a moral gene. It seriously just blows my mind how violent and cruel some people can be for no good reason. This may make me sound naive to those who don't know me. I am not naive. I know there's danger out there and how to be street-smart but I jsut can't fathom how this violence, this cruelty exists.

Sigh. Tired from all that. I am very content and appreciative of where I am living, what I have, who I love, and the time that I live in.