Even though nowadays I'm trying to stay away from people and just do my own thing, that does not mean I'm not enjoying my time. These last two months in my semi-social hibernation I have realized that by putting your friends aside you get to do more stuff you want to do. And what does that mean for me? Well, that means I get to watch more movies, play video games, read books, listen to podcasts, and just overall do what I want. For me as long as I can do these things then I'm set for life. I like to think that I'm simple that way and that I don't ask for much. These things all require funds but you don't really need a lot of it to satisfy these wants. And I take pride in this ideal lifestyle that I wish to live. I feel so many other people (especially millennials) would not be appreciative and would look at life as not good enough for them or they would want something more than what they have. Anyways I'm going off on a tangent and should get back on course. So as I was saying, for the past two months, I have really used my time to dig into my interests.

I started reading this book concerning what the future holds for us in terms of robotics, genetics, currency, etc. It's called, "The Industries Of The Future" by Alec Ross. The author used to be the Senior Advisor for Innovation to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. I had no idea that job existed and quite honestly it sounds so awesome. I'm learning about current technologies and how they will evolve in the near future. I find this stuff just fascinating and I wouldn't have learned this cool stuff If I was spending more time outside the house doing normal sociable stuff. I even learned how Bitcoin works. A long time ago I tried reading about how Bitcoin works via an article but it was all just getting muddled in my brain with the technical machinations behind it. In this book, however, the author tries his best to explain it in layman's terms and I was able to grasp the basic concepts more precisely. Another book I started to read was "Drift:The Unmooring of American Military Power" by Rachel Maddow. This is exactly what I was looking for! I wanted an explanation as to how did we get to this point of the U.S. military having so much power and money. Rachel is so far explaining that by going over each step that expanded the military's power starting back from the Cold War. I cannot wait to finish it.

Let's steer this ship and get into the media I have been consuming. I have been watching a Japanese reality TV show that is on Netflix. It's called "Terrace House: Boys and Girls In The City" and it is about 6 people living in a house in Japan and they just live and interact together. Often people leave and new members come in to take up their spot. And mostly the show is about these people trying to have romantic relationships with one another. That seems to be the goal for most. I love this stuff, I just eat it all up. I usually binge three episodes in one sitting (1.5 hrs). And not just in the span of these last two months but even also before that I have been listening to U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. Yeah, I know most of you are probably having a confused look and asking, "Why?" I'm just weird like that. I'm not trying to be a lawyer or anything (although it is something I have considered) but I just genuinely enjoy these conversations. Well, they're not conversations, they are dialogues between the justices and the lawyer of the petitioner and also the lawyer of the respondent. It's a lot of boring talk about legal technicalities of statutes but a lot of times they talk about fundamentals of moral arguments and ideal views of certain circumstances relating to the specific case. And that my friends exactly what animates me. The dialogue of individuals concerning what is right and what is wrong and what is ideal and what is not ideal. Of course, I only choose cases that interest me and I haven't listened to anything pre-2005. I've listened to about fourteen oral arguments which on average are seventy-five minutes long.

But wait there is more! It is because of the social hibernation that I was able to watch "Hellboy," "Tangerine," "Only God Forgives"(my second time watching it and will be writing an in-depth analysis of it in the future), "Moonlight," and John Carpenter's "The Thing." I was even able to go to a conference. I went to an event at UCLA that had two panels regarding Obama's drone legacy and the legal and humanitarian aspects of it. Very insightful but heavy on the soul. It's definitely something I wished more people should have been involved in because discussion/awareness is the first step to solving a problem or at least making something better. Unfortunately, I didn't even have time to talk about what I have been playing but that can be discussed in another article. Overall maybe what my point is that the past two months have been really good for me and I have not been wanting to hang out with friends because of how much I'm enjoying myself. And you know what, that is totally okay. No shame in wanting to shut out the world and just do you.