Taiwanese Takeout and Other Wisdomy Things

I've been a Star Trek fan for as long as I can remember. Literally. Some of my first memories are watching Data cut into a Diana Troy cake (with mint frosting!), and other ones involving the Holodeck and me not understanding what the Holodeck was, so I ended up thinking the show had strange lapses in logic. But as a kid, I was cool with it. I thought weird bubble people floating around while everyone else took mud baths on the Enterprise was what made the show great, despite me having no clue why it was there. Later on in life, I grew to appreciate the finer points of Star Trek. The intricate plots, the powerful statements, the new additions of lore--even one or two of the silly Holodeck episodes where science ficiton goes out the window and fantasy rides in on its majestic, photonic-forcefield horse. I know the lore inside and out. I've seen every episode of Star Trek in existence at least once in my life--most of them twice or more. Kathryn Janeway serves as my childhood he...

Let me ask you something. Have you ever looked at your life--I mean really  looked at it, sighed, and then asked, "Where the heck did it all go wrong?" Maybe you found that reason, and then fixated on it, or started to make a plan to get back on top. Maybe you just gave up. The number of paths one can take at this point are virtually infinite, yet the question somehow remains:  Why are we so sad about the current state of our lives? If there really are so many options for us in the future, why do we feel constrained? How come we think our lives are forfeit because life didn't turn out the way we wanted? Well, there are a lot of answers, and I don't think there really is one right answer to determine why  we all eventually get to that point where we say, "I dun goofed in this life!" And while I had a few good ideas for this blog article to explain why, I realized that perhaps it would be better to focus less on the why we get it  and more on the how w...