“Awareness works likes a vitamin. You go to the bathroom and
99 percent of it is gone but you hope that you retained 1 percent,”
added John Mayer.
Don’t be fooled, Shawn. Only if we’re all as stupid as Mayer —
or if our short term memories are as damaged as his — do we need,
every time the sun comes up, to have our awareness raised
again. Awareness works like a vitamin, like an
antidepressant pill, like an anti-hair loss treatment. You have to
keep taking it…for the rest of your life…or it’s all a waste.
Tomorrow Darfur will mean nothing to you unless reminded. Next time
you sit down to breakfast you will find yourself instead reverting
to sexual practices more common before the arrival of AIDS. You
will, in only a matter of hours, stand gazing upward in rapt
appreciation at the towering blaze of unrecycled old tires and
jarred cow farts that you thought it’d be fun to unleash on the
ozone layer.
Take your medicine! Know your doses! Without daily awareness
treatment, we could set the clock back on human evolution fifty
years!