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I remember saying once to someone that if humanity invested the same amount of time, money, energy and creativity in solving the really important global problems that right now goes into developing the next clever electronic gadget, we'd already have world peace and all that.


On the same note, if I used all the time spent watching tv shows, analysing fictional characters & their relationships and writing long-winded livejournal posts about that getting a better hold on my own life? Could I have been... well, probably not happily married with 2.1 kids, a dog & picket fence, but somewhat less pathetically & perpetually single? Fitter, happier, more productive?


( cut... for length mostly, possibly navel-gazing )