Thoughts

I've decided that people talk way, way too much. By my estimate, ninety percent of peoples' conversations are pointless, shallow, and not worth having. If everyone spent the same amount of energy and time that they use for talking to think, maybe we would have solutions for the problems facing the world today. Periodically I lapse into days of silence, but I realized that this isn't constructive, so my idea was, why not just speak Spanish? That way, I learn the language, and only people who have something important enough to tell me, that they will translate it into another language will be able to communicate.
As a side note, I would like to ask the very small pool of people who read this blog to use the phrase "shut up" liberally, as it is not really offensive, and most of the time it is entirely appropriate. Taking the idea even further, take your friends camping, bring them out into the wilderness and make them just sit silently and listen, listen to what they are missing by talking on and on about nothing.
To conclude, please, think before you speak, and if you judge that it is not something that needs to be said, keep it to yourself. On that note, I leave you with my Top Five places to sit in silence.

1. The beach at Boliver mud flats.
2. At the top of "La Mitra" in the davis mountains.
3. By the river in Zilker park in Austin.
   
4. On the tall hill in herman park, by the amphitheater.
5. Any place with the right mixture of sun and grass.