Brown Motion

What is with these short forms you ask?  I will get to it.  Off late I have noticed that strip malls and shopping complexes are leasing out new square footage focused on a few sure bets.  This to appeal to the so called Gen Z folks ... whose mood today seems to crave the below.  Add a few thousand boomers or folks with a healthy bank account and FOMO on snagging a cutie in their 7th inning, you have a recipe to profit. Fitness centers - with exotic names like Zoomba to Cross Fit to P2P to Soul cycle. Boba - From SE Asian chains to local moms and pops wanting to see the cash register ring before it all pops, these high margin, easily reproduced drinks are offering a new twist too - cream and butter on traditional tea and coffee..all the rage with some even touting salted butter and colorful toppings to the caffeine craving crowds. Salons -from toe to fingertip and everything in between you can cure (mani and pedi) or fix what ails you (physiotherapy) or find acu...

Why should the popular media have monopoly over fearmongering? Hence I too shall contribute to the sense of paranoia out there. Off late I have seen a growing trend among the health conscious to 'walk in reverse'. Not just spinning their arms and stretching whilst walking but actually walk in the opposite direction to where their eyes are pointing. (ridiculous definition # 1 - conscious - any ditz with the subjective awareness of the aspects of cognitive processing and the content of the mind - I wonder if anything walking on the street is processing anything other than getting through the day). The trend is pronounced in the Asian community surely due to some Yin yang in central China having propounded the belief that this is good for you .. (ridic def # 2 - Asian - people hailing from China, Mongolia, India and other island nations in the South Asian latitudes - too many to name). Now its catching on - More Indians too are falling prey to this ritual. I am no health...