Starbucks Nation

It's a Friday morning and I'm taking a break from the efficient job building I should be doing to give you a little digression.
Starbucks...god knows I love a good cup of strong coffee like the next caffeine lover, but how many choices does one person need? I myself am enjoying one of their new skinny lattes...for us beautifully curvy women who like to stay that way, but I see person after person come in..."I'll have a double soy sugar-free hazelnut latte", "Make that a Venti Non-fat Cinnamon Dolce & Gabbana Cappuccino, thanks."
People are we forcing ourselves to be in the box that badly. Branch out, simplify it. I'll have a cup of coffee, no foam or froth or sugar free syrups of some foreign origin. Do I think of myself as a person who needs a skinny latte? Well no, but some of the frou frou coffees they serve have their purpose in the yumminess quotient. I just think if people thought just as much as what they want to accomplish in this short trip we call life as they do deciding what they want to drink, maybe the world wouldn't be as cold and cynical as it seems some times.
What do you think?

Contact Blurriness

What is it like to see with completely clear eyes? Would you see into a person's soul? Can you make them feel what you feel by just by looking at them? I've had many people in my time look at me...through me...into me, but none so much as to really know me. Life sometimes feels as though it's a pair of blurry contact lenses. You need to adjust, rub, and manipulate to be able to see clearer. Just as life needs to be adjusted and manipulated for you to be seen clearer in it. Don't I wish I had 20/20 vision? But no...not really, I like being out of focus occassionally, it makes things more interesting.