I See the Numbers

 When I get more personal here about myself, for some reason my readership goes up.  I'm not sure what that reasoning is, but maybe compared to most anyone, there isn't much exciting about guys who sit around and smoke pipes.  Watch any YouTube vid on pipe smoking and you will understand.  If I wrote about all my fantasies, I might be the most exciting person in the world because my mind takes me wherever I want to go.  

Some people want to write autobiographies or have one written about them.  Some wonder which actor or actress they would like to play them on the big screen.  An old adage in Hollywood says bad publicity is still publicly.  That's all some people want and it matters not what is considered bad.  If I were into gaming I could very easily get lost in fantasy worlds and never choose to live in the real world.  I have had the richest fantasy life a person can have.  But there is a difference between a fantasy world and reality, where for me my reality is that I smoke a pipe and let my mind wander as I do.

A life that seeks love and Peace is a life that is essentially boring.  Maybe it's why I do smoke a pipe.  And maybe I am alone too much.  A biography without ideas would be boring at best and while Einstein had many ideas that were published his life's story was far from boring.  But since his teaching at a prestigious Ivy League university he led a rather boring life.  It's his ideas that got noticed.  

But the typical pipe smoker leads a boring life, which might explain why people like myself smoke a pipe.  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an avid pioe smoker that took us on many adventures.  We don't know much about his life except he smoked substances other than tobacco.  This opened his mind to a fantasy world he was able to put to pen and paper.  

We know more about Mark Twain's life.  He was a soldier for two weeks in the Civil War for the Confederacy and saw no point to it.  Then he was a riverboat captain, but his famous stories were more autobiographical in nature.  But still, he so famously said, he was born to smoke a pipe.  His pipe expanded his fantasy world and made him quite the humorist he was.  Pipe smokers tend to lean to the philosophical side of life.  

My pipe makes me think philosophical thoughts.  I don't get lost in fantasy, but my thoughts can take me there.  But life is lived in reality and my reality is boring, but not my thoughts.  My thoughts border on conspiracy theories that are more often than not my own psychoses.  And it might be risky at best to make those known, although I have shared with others often with deep regret.  I prefer then to keep such thoughts to myself, but still believe any psychosis can be real and still do.  

But I can't say I live with remorse or regret, I don't.  I continue to look forward and not back and can get lost in my fantasy worlds about the future.   This is where I live.  I'm excited about the future and for this reason I am a news junkie and have been all my life.  Sometimes the news opened my mind to fantasy worlds that might not exist otherwise.  I have a rich fantasy life, but I've learned to keep most of my fantasies to myself.  

Someday maybe I will share some of those, but not yet.  These days I like to keep my thoughts to myself.  I'm just leading a boring life of Peace and love and just smoke my pipe.  But I often feel I've earned this right and will continue to so unless the Spirit leads me to do otherwise.  Today it is my Gettysburg pipe again, with some Prince Albert.  I could write a novel just on this pipe alone.  It is the most mysterious pipe I own, but it smokes so well.  It's the best $30 I will have spent on any pipe, except for my first one.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave