Merit

I never understood why people who go dumb and then come back to reasonable have more merit than people who have the sense and effort to always be reasonable. Someone who's been training all their life is taken for granted compared to someone who never lifted a finger until well advanced in age, someone who let themselves gain 100 pounds and the lost it, is always more of a hero than someone who's managed to mainain a healthy weight through all of lifes difficulties.

piercings..

I have two musings about piercings.. I wonder about when ear piercings started.. how did parents react when thier girls got their ears pierced.. (I could, and will probably google that one) .. and secondly.. I wonder if the trend of multiple piercings would ever have started if parents hadn't gotten their girls' ears pierced when they were just babies. The girls wouldn't have taken for granted piercings, and would have gotten thier first ones as a teenager..