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now listening: So Young by Portugal. The Man There are few things I find funnier than a line without context. Unfortunately, this has caused me to contract a rare, incurable disease called ijbolitis (ijbol = I just burst out laughing). Symptoms include unpredictable cackles and complementary concerned stares from others. I encounter such context-less lines constantly, usually by tuning into someone's conversation at precisely the wrong second, but my all-time favorite example of this comes from the sitcom Modern Family . In one scene, where Cam is talking to Manny on the phone, going out of his way to try and coach him through his first real crush. It really is a very sweet, very wholesome moment...if (emphasis on if!) you know the context. Conveniently, Cam is holding this tender heart-to-heart in a public setting. And to help Manny confess, Cam proudly instructs him (mind you, at FULL volume) to say the following: "I know you're only 11, but I can't stop thinking abo...

  now playing : Story of My Life by One Direction    A recent fear of mine (if which you enlightened me of four years ago, I would have laughed in your face) has been none other than peaking too early in life. Accomplishing my greatest successes, then painfully descending into a valley. Yet similar to the climax of a story, a "peak" only really exists if life follows a rising and falling arc.  Maybe that's where my fear rooted from: to name a peak is to view my life within a narrative frame, a fixed story where I am the protagonist, a very symptom of Narrativism that Strawson implies in his discussion of the human tendency to impose structure into life. In that vein, I wonder if it's fruitless to continue trying to measure my life in peaks and valleys. On one hand, it makes things a tad less grey, a tad easier to see as cause and effect. Event A leads to Event B. This is how many forms of entertainment push it after all - characters like Tinker Bell , the ...