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We all need to grow up. Eventually that happens whether we realize it or not. But what's even more important isn't us going from child to adult, but as adult's we grow as people. It's always interesting to me how people can change so much; or not. How some are just completely content being the same as they have always been, rather than to consciously grow as an individual person. Even more interesting is how a person can outgrow people around them. Where you realize that even though that person's situation has changed: maybe they got married, or had children, moved, etc., but yet they haven't changed. Their circumstances and environment changed. They may have even matured more than before. But again, they haven't changed. At. All. They were once so close to you. They were a friend/partner/love interest/family member and together you both made a pair. Something happens and you spend a while apart and when you come back, something is different. Which is when

What awaits us in our Future? 100 years from now? “Anything, everything is possible.” Thomas Edison, 1908 A year ago I subscribed to the Smithsonian Magazine. I was tired of subscribing to a bunch of magazines that would only hold a few articles of which I was truly interested in reading, or that talked about things I enjoy learning and reading about. I’m one of those people that need to constantly stimulate my brain, or I will go crazy. Which is when I decided to subscribe to the Smithsonian. I’ve been much to busy to read the magazines up until recently. So I only just started reading my January 2008 Volume 32 #10 edition. Page 42 starts a very intriguing article by Jim Rasenberger titled, 1908*. In that article, Jim discusses the things that have happened in 1908, as well as very accurate predictions that the people of that time had made. I will include parts of the article in this write, as I go along, word for word of course (all credit for the parts I include go to Jim Rasenberge