My, my baby blue/ Shooting Stars

The song most played on my iTunes last week is Aerosmith's Jaded. I saw the music video many years ago, and just rediscovered the song when it was playing at a restaurant.

In all it's misery it will always be what I love and hated
And maybe take a ride to the other side we're thinkin' of
We'll slip into the velvet glove
And be Jaded
I'm so Jaded
And baby I'm afraid of you

It perfectly sums up my state of mind. Days slip into night, and you wake up and start the same routine. It's a good thing that Kuala Lumpur is less than two weeks away.

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The other day I was thinking of meteor showers, solar eclipses and comet sightings. To me it, after 10 solar eclipses, all of them look the same. Yet, we spend so much press time discussing these, sharing photos, and act as if it is the find of the lifetime. Then the next hype comes, and you again chase something else of the lifetime.

I understand intuitively our attraction for the fleeting and the rare. We ignore our daily problems, things that are right in front of us, and chase the fleeting and the rare. And it never stops.

Whether it's the 40% off at the retail store, the one time career opportunity, it takes real maturity to realize that things will come and go, but you will remain unchanged, and at the end of the day, you will be fine.

I will be fine without the meteor showers, thank you very much.