xenocide and Neil DeGrasse Tyson

finally read this book (Xenocide) after however long it's been since I read the second of the Ender series (It's a sci-fi series). Raises some interesting moral questions about what constitutes intelligence (as if we met alien species) and also about how subtle changes in the structure of idelogies can have massive changes.

Orson Scott Card is a nice read. He tells stories well, and though he does concentrate on characters and what they're thinking and feeling for a bit too long, it doesn't detract from the book as a whole. I started reading him when I was younger due to the fact that the protagonist was young as well, and yet had such an awesome life. He captured my attention and I've now read all his sci-fi! :)

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anyway, I found a quote by the great Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson (an amazing astrophysicist) on reddit today:

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

 So deep! I may try to adopt this philosophy...to try more things, to make things happen and (for myself) no regrets. Everything we do in life is for a reason, we just don't know it yet.

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I'll get around to detailing my 52 week project stuff soon =P a bit of a backlog but I've been keeping up so stay tuned!