Spring Break, Home, Complacency, and Quarter Review

Spring break has begun.  I'm back home here in San Francisco, lying comfortably in bed freezing my ass off.  It's good to be back.  I never thought I would enjoy the near zero temperatures of San Francisco, but after this quarter I would prefer to be anywhere other than UCSD.

Another quarter has ended and it's time for a quarter review.  Let's see what I have accomplished:  I pissed off Julia and now she hates me indefinitely.  Relations with Abby and Victor is slowly fraying apart.  I terminated contact with Building 1 Eric and I have no idea where the hell Bill went.  At least relations with Mazza is still decent.  It also seems that relations between Jacob and I are improving.  Interactions between Eric and I are more natural, and relations with Bryce is starting to thaw.  This quarter has been nothing but trouble, nearly every step I taken forward last quarter was undone by this one.  I'm pretty much back to square one.

Being back home and lying in bed, doing nothing seems great but I must be conscious of being too comfortable and complacent.  I always viewed life through a Darwinistic and Eugenicist lens.  Every living organism that have ever existed have survived by being put through hardship, and any animal that gets too comfortable or too settled in their environment will die out.  Take the dinosaurs for example, they were the apex predators of their time, but they were too fitted to their environment.  All it took was one single event to wipe them out and for the more adaptive small mammals to become the dominant life form.  The dodo, the panda, same story there, one died out because it was too comfortable in its environment and the other is dying because it cannot adapt to a changing environment.  The same can be said of humans, not humans in general of course because we can adapt to virtually anything, but what I'm talking about is the lone human, the individual.  Individuals that become too comfortable in who they are or the situation they are in will eventually become stuck.  They cannot adapt, they cannot change and eventually they will perish.  This could happen to me.  Lying in bed feels so comfortable and my parents want me to move back in after college, but I fear that lying in bed could become my life for the next ten years of my life.  If I become too complacent and comfortable then I too will perish.  I must face hardships and adapt.

Note to self:  Never be comfortable or complacent in what you are or where you are, always face hardship.