polity, politics, politician, police, metropolis

hell is other people

Playing with water is fun as a kid, playing with boats is more fun. Building your own propelled balloon boat, egg shell steam boat, RC electric-motor driven model boat ...  it just keeps getting better. The joy in making something move in the water and take a life of its own, is simply transcendent..ent... 

If you join the navy, it's transcendent in another way. Getting yelled at a lot, living in shoebox-like spaces, eating horrible food, servicing large unforgiving mechanical monsters, your life, time, purpose, energy  at the whim of others ...