Posted under: Blog365

So I’m going through my Entrecard sites and I come across this blog: The FBI Is Watching You. The first post I read is Things to Ponder.

I’ve decided that with each of these things, I will “ponder” my response below each.

Number 10
Life is sexually transmitted.
Yes! Life is sexually transmitted so technically, pregnancy and babies can be considered diseases…

Number 9
Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
If you look at it in the miserable sense, yes. If you look at it in the happier sense, it means that you have more time to spend with your loved ones.

Number 8
Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich.
I had quite a bit of a laugh with this one. Why? Well, it’s obviously an oversimplification of men, but at the same time, it pokes at women by implying that they should be in the kitchen, making a sandwich for the man like a good, obedient housewife. I feel like I should take offense to this, but I won’t for this one.

Number 7
Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day, teach a person to use the internet and they won’t bother you for weeks.
One word: StumbleUpon

Number 6
Some people are like a Slinky .. Not really good for anything, but you still can’t help but smile when you shove them down the stairs.
Okay, I’ll admit that it will suck major balls if someone were to shove me down the stairs, but it’s like watching those funniest home videos, you know? You know it’s awful painful, but you can’t help but laugh at the same time.

Number 5
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
That could be true, but then again, it ties back into number 9, doesn’t it?

Number 4
All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.
We could take that lesson, but sometimes, criticism is good only if it is completely constructive. There can be criticism that will cut like a knife and by then, you just don’t want to hear it anymore.

Number 3
Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200.00 and a substantial tax cut save you $30.00?
Because the economy likes to fuck with us tax paying citizens?

Number 2
In the 60’s, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.
Well, not quite. The world isn’t necessarily “weird” to the Prozac people; it’s just a little hard to bear sometimes.

Number 1
We know exactly where one cow with Mad-cow-disease is located among millions and millions of cows in America, but we haven’t got a clue as to where millions of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of Immigration.
Okay this is a little funny, but there are too many things that I want to argue with on this one and knowing me and knowing how tired I am at the moment… probably not right now.

If you want, go ahead and “ponder” away at these things and let me know what you think of them!

Tags: questions, statements, Thoughts

Posted under: Blog365, Thoughts

Do you ever wonder what the world sees when they look at you? What other people see, what you see? I mean, it’s all about the glass, right? Is it half empty or is it half full? However, this isn’t really about the difference in optimism and pessimism.

I was having a conversation with a friend earlier and I was talking about how people in general don’t really have great adventures, you know? It started with my watching Stardust and seeing how awesome of a time Yvaine and Tristan were having. Things like that don’t happen nowadays; there are no dragons, there are no witches (the fairytale kind anyway), there are no flying ships. There are no fairytale princesses and certainly no Prince Charmings. Or they’re in very, very short supply.

Except my friend was arguing that every thing can be taken as an adventure. An adventure could be getting the guts to buy flowers for the girl you like, to make the gesture you rarely ever make because you’re not the romantic type. An adventure could be taking a drive up the east hills at night and running into all the make-out points, trees, and roadkill. An adventure could be trying to get your damned legal documents updated with your new married name (although that might be a painful one). Ad adventure could even be trying to get your rambunctious son to put on a proper set of clothes on while he’s running around and spitting all over the place.

My point is that life really is what you make of it. You say that life is a miserable place, but that’s because you make it miserable. It doesn’t have to be; life can be as fun, as exciting, as amazing as you want it to be because that’s how you’re going to perceive it. It’s like the phrase, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” Well, that’s because the latter man perceives the item differently than the former man does. It’s not necessarily “trash” nor is it “treasure.” It’s an item that can have either some significance or no significance at all.

Bottom line is…

It’s all in your head.

Tags: adventures, ideas, perception, Thoughts, views