When people you met briefly a year ago remember you when you pop in on them again. Feels like forming friendships very slowly : )
imagination. seeing it as well as exercising it. the immunity of strangeness and the diversity of the real universe, to the narrowness of human pre-assumptions.
that neither the universe, nor whatever gods or god like beings may happen to exist, owe bugger all, to what anyone tells anyone else to pretend. that not everyone hates logic, and that there is such a thing as science. what it is, what it does, how it works. that there are technologies like trains and computers exist. that also there are trees and little furry creatures, and that it is possible, and some people want this, though it would be better if more people were aware of how important it is to do this, to engineer technologies and infrastructure based on them, in such a way, as minimize or even eliminate, harm to the natural environment.
not having to live the life of someone who has less imagination then me, even if i do have to live the life of someone who doesn't seem to be as smart is i would like to be. mostly all of the things i've already said, but except for the inconvenience of not having wealth beyond my wildest dreams of avarice, i am thoroughly grateful not to have lived a more tediously conventional life. trains and kittens and trees and community college libraries, oh and every place i don't have to breathe second hand smoke. and public transit, even if its only a bus.
when you get to be my age, all of your ends are week. lol. having your own weekends on days different then 'everyone' else's, i grew up with my father doing so, when i finally got a car so we could go places on them. being welcomed places that aren't crowded because having days off to go there when everyone else isn't. any time given the choice, that has always been my preference. regular hours, regular days off, but not the same ones as everyone else.