enigma
09-03-2006, 07:43 PM
Are there questions that keep you up at night? Make you wonder? Make you worry? 0
Well here are some answers to some of these questions
By Jeanne Marie Laskas
Love & Marriage
Q. Can love realy last a lifetime? 0
Absolutely,but only if you chuck the fairy tale of living happily ever after.A team of scientists recently found that romantic love involves chemical changes in the brain that last 12 to 18 months.After that,you and your partner are on your own.Relationships require mantenance.Pay a visit to a nursing home if you want to see proof of lasting love.Recently I spoke to a man whose wife of 60 years was suffering from advanced Alzheimer's disease.He came to sit with her every day and hold her hand."She's been my best friend since high school," he told me."We made a pronise to stick together."Now ,that's a love story
Q. Why do married folks begin to look like one another? 0
Watch any two people who like each other talking,and you'll see a lot of mirroring.One smiles,and so does the other.One nods or raises her eybrows,and so does the other.Faces are like melodies with a natural urge to stay in sync.Multiply those movements by several decades of marriage,all those years of simultaneous sagging and drooping,and it's no wonder
Cosmic Questions
Q. Why does summer zoom by and winter drag on forever? 0
Because context defines experience.As Albert Einstein once said: "When you are courting a nice girl,an hour seems like a second.When you sit on a red-hot cinder,a second seems like an hour". 0
Q. Do animals really have a sixth sense? 0
Or seventh or eighth! A box jelly-fish has 24 eyes,an earthworm's entire body is covered with taste receptors, a cockroach can detect movements 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom--and your dog's sense of smell is up to 100,000 times greater than yours (some dogs have been known to smell human cancer). It's safe to say that animals experience a much different world than we do
Q. Why does the line you're in always move the slowest? 0
Because you're late for your kid's band practice,and you curse your luck and envy those speeding by .Conversely,when you're in the fast line,unfettered by stress,you don't even notice the poor schlubs in the slow lane.Good luck rarely commands one's attention like bad luck
Q. By what age should you know what you want to do with your life? 0
Any moment now.This used to be a question the young asked.Now it's a quandary for baby boomers.The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that younger boomers have abandoned the American ideal of picking a job and sticking with it.Between the ages of 18 and 36,these boomers held an average of 9.6 jobs.That's a lot of exploration.The wisdom of elders in all cultures seems to be this: There's nothing to do with a life but live it.As Gandhi pointed out,"Almost anything you do will be insignificant,but it's very important that you do it." 0
Q. Where do traffic jams come from? 0
Scientists are hard at work on this one,studying computer models of the physics of gridlock and inventing all new traffic-light algorithms.Some of them postulate that the rhythms of automobile traffic are influenced by the same cyclical forces that cause waves in the ocean. For the average computer,though, it may be helpfful to think of it this way:congestion.There're just too many darn people trying to do the same thing at once.(Flush the toilet in a single office building simultaneously,and see what happens.) All of this by way of saying:buy a newspaper,load up some favorite tunes on your MP3 player and take the bus:D
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Well here are some answers to some of these questions
By Jeanne Marie Laskas
Love & Marriage
Q. Can love realy last a lifetime? 0
Absolutely,but only if you chuck the fairy tale of living happily ever after.A team of scientists recently found that romantic love involves chemical changes in the brain that last 12 to 18 months.After that,you and your partner are on your own.Relationships require mantenance.Pay a visit to a nursing home if you want to see proof of lasting love.Recently I spoke to a man whose wife of 60 years was suffering from advanced Alzheimer's disease.He came to sit with her every day and hold her hand."She's been my best friend since high school," he told me."We made a pronise to stick together."Now ,that's a love story
Q. Why do married folks begin to look like one another? 0
Watch any two people who like each other talking,and you'll see a lot of mirroring.One smiles,and so does the other.One nods or raises her eybrows,and so does the other.Faces are like melodies with a natural urge to stay in sync.Multiply those movements by several decades of marriage,all those years of simultaneous sagging and drooping,and it's no wonder
Cosmic Questions
Q. Why does summer zoom by and winter drag on forever? 0
Because context defines experience.As Albert Einstein once said: "When you are courting a nice girl,an hour seems like a second.When you sit on a red-hot cinder,a second seems like an hour". 0
Q. Do animals really have a sixth sense? 0
Or seventh or eighth! A box jelly-fish has 24 eyes,an earthworm's entire body is covered with taste receptors, a cockroach can detect movements 2,000 times the diameter of a hydrogen atom--and your dog's sense of smell is up to 100,000 times greater than yours (some dogs have been known to smell human cancer). It's safe to say that animals experience a much different world than we do
Q. Why does the line you're in always move the slowest? 0
Because you're late for your kid's band practice,and you curse your luck and envy those speeding by .Conversely,when you're in the fast line,unfettered by stress,you don't even notice the poor schlubs in the slow lane.Good luck rarely commands one's attention like bad luck
Q. By what age should you know what you want to do with your life? 0
Any moment now.This used to be a question the young asked.Now it's a quandary for baby boomers.The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that younger boomers have abandoned the American ideal of picking a job and sticking with it.Between the ages of 18 and 36,these boomers held an average of 9.6 jobs.That's a lot of exploration.The wisdom of elders in all cultures seems to be this: There's nothing to do with a life but live it.As Gandhi pointed out,"Almost anything you do will be insignificant,but it's very important that you do it." 0
Q. Where do traffic jams come from? 0
Scientists are hard at work on this one,studying computer models of the physics of gridlock and inventing all new traffic-light algorithms.Some of them postulate that the rhythms of automobile traffic are influenced by the same cyclical forces that cause waves in the ocean. For the average computer,though, it may be helpfful to think of it this way:congestion.There're just too many darn people trying to do the same thing at once.(Flush the toilet in a single office building simultaneously,and see what happens.) All of this by way of saying:buy a newspaper,load up some favorite tunes on your MP3 player and take the bus:D
Wait for the rest of the answered questions