I’ve been trying different exercises to lose weight, but I haven’t been swimming much (which is supposed to be low impact and all-around awesome). Also, I’ve always been skeptical about our apartment pool — I see so many people constantly in and out of it — especially kids. So today I thought “Hey man, it’s probably not that gross. Just go early morning, before everyone else.”
So I grab my towel and head to the pool, but the maintenance guy tells me it’s shut down for cleaning.
“So do you guys shut it down weekly for cleaning, or… ?”
“No, we only clean it when the front office tells us to. It’s the first time this year – so many people go in and out of these dirty things.”
You know what, today looks like a good day to go biking anyway. Forever.
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Hello. My name is Jay-Ram (Jay-ROM) and I'm a Indian-American former pharmaceutical chemist. Ever since I was a child, I've had a fascination with science, watching shows like "Bill-Nye The Science Guy" and "The Magic School Bus." I often had felt like the odd-kid-out because of the different way I would find solutions to problems (usually breaking conventional norms) and this made me stand out from my peers as the weird one. Now that I've worked in the industry for a while and realised my dream of working in a lab, I have come to understand that the spirit of science that drew me to it exists beyond the laboratory walls; it lead me to a way to connect people. So to explore that, I want to help people realize that they are not separate from the universe, but a part of it, itself. Paraphrasing the great Alan Watts, my goal with writing is the following: to help us realize that even though we feel as separate waves, we are still part of the entire cosmic ocean.
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Don’t ever go to a public pool. Ever.
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