Raise your hand if you've read Larry Niven's Ringworld series. Good, you know what I'm talking about in the subject line.
For the rest of you, here's the basics: The phrase 'Under the wire' refers to something called a droud. It's an implant in your skull. You plug an electrical wire into it and it stimulates the pleasure centers of your brain with the current. (Something like an electrical high).
My point, however, is this: Doesn't this sound familliar? Can you say 'Mp3 players', anyone? Plastic things in your skull that people are often plugged into for hours on end...and the effect, though scientifically different, is essentially the same: it makes you happy. Granted, the circuitry that the current runs through is electronic and not your gray matter, but still...
Music players are as addictive as a droud, too. I speak as one who is a 'current addict', so to speak- I don't think I've ever gone a day without my earbuds in at least for a short period of time. You get hooked, and then it's a habit hard to break.
Anyhow, short journal today, but comments are loved! heart
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The Book Of Remembrance and Forgetting
Hopefully, mostly remembrance. My New Year's Resolution this year was to keep a journal...this isn't exactly a chronicle of my exploits (though at times it becomes such) as a stream-of-conciousness narrative. Enjoy.
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