Along the way we have all had issues with scheduling our lives to allow us to live our lives. The meaning of life is all about the journey right? Our journey is to be a series of destinations which when added to together form bullet points on the map of the world that is OUR LIFE. Like dots strewn about a rugged landscape of occurrences and side tracks, these destinations have been plotted out and (in hindsight) on a schedule. So how well have you been scheduling?
One will argue that the scheduling doesn't matter but that you actually made time to live your life as fully as you could have possibly done, but I say while you were living and doing that one amazing thing.. you could have been doing something else that you just missed out on! For every great moment of seeing your friend give birth, there is a family member's child walking for the first time. With every full eclipse, there was a friend inside passing a kidney stone of epic proportions. You WILL miss out on something, but the trick is to not feel like you've actually missed out.
Sure I would have loved to be at the birthday celebration of a co-worker, but i really wanted to drive to my friends house to use his toilet because of a dislike I have of using public restrooms. I don't regret a moment f it. I may have missed the game winning run of the 2005 world series, but I sure did enjoy playing tiger woods while sitting on an old broken cot that I had obtained from a daycare's nurses office after it had outlived its usefulness. I did not see my nephews first steps, but I DID see a man drink 2 full beers out of the "cup" of my friends artificial leg. As I look back on the times I've enjoyed various events of my choosing, sure I WISH I had experienced some things rather than others... but I'm glad I've experienced what I have. Are you?
Love yall,
D-Ron
Thursday, January 20, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
2011: The "who cares" so far
Seems like allot has happened in the first couple of weeks of the year. In my big little town of Tucson,AZ I've seen quite a few things occur just in the last week that would both shake your confidence in humanity and later reaffirm your faith in your fellow man/woman. Beyond the more serious of events that have been happening from floods to assassination attempts, there's also been some pretty unimportant things going on, and that's what I'd like to focus on.
1) Ted Williams. I know initially this was the "feel good" story of the year; "down and out homeless man gets an opportunity to make a living after recovering from substance abuse and having a GOLDEN voice". Turns out, not only did Mr. Williams lie about being clean and sober but also has like 9 kids and a bunch of debt. Now Ted is in rehab which is probably for the best, and a few companies made some money off of him and got their tax write-offs for the year. Wasn't anyone a little guilty about the fact that this guy got fame from saying random radio stuff on the side of the road for spare change? There are plenty of homeless guys out there that will do ALLOT more for a a dollar and they will never be on TV or be able to re-unite with their estranged family for a quick game of pick-up baseball with enough people (if all the ex's show up) to have 2 teams and a bat boy.
2) Zodiac sign change. Do I really have to go into this? Are people still following these things? I thought horoscopes and zodiac signs went out of style with smoking and cocaine. If there is anyone out there that determines how good there day will be based on their zodiac sign... I'm sorry that your about to have to start reading your vague description of the "person or event that will bring you great fortune , though it may not be in the financial form".
3) Verizon iPhone. This one is great, all of the millions of "angry" customers on AT&T can finally jump ship and go to a "better" network. Is anyone willing to think back to why AT&T has the issues the do (which are getting better)... it's because soo many joined the network at once with iPhones, think it won't happen again? More importantly; ALL CELL PHONE COMPANIES SUCK. You're always gonna have a dead zone and if your luck it won't be inside your home. I do personally love apple stringing everyone along to create a greater demand that "coincidentally" lines up in the middle of all the new iPhone 4 buyer's contracts. You can pay more to switch now... or pay of the phone with AT&T and then switch for another two years to Verizon (win win for Steve). Either way you will be paying twice as much as you would had you just stayed with AT&T and just dealt with the fact that you can't call your friend right after you leave work and have to wait until after you pass the homeless guy that talks like Casey Kasem.
Love you guys,
D-Ron
1) Ted Williams. I know initially this was the "feel good" story of the year; "down and out homeless man gets an opportunity to make a living after recovering from substance abuse and having a GOLDEN voice". Turns out, not only did Mr. Williams lie about being clean and sober but also has like 9 kids and a bunch of debt. Now Ted is in rehab which is probably for the best, and a few companies made some money off of him and got their tax write-offs for the year. Wasn't anyone a little guilty about the fact that this guy got fame from saying random radio stuff on the side of the road for spare change? There are plenty of homeless guys out there that will do ALLOT more for a a dollar and they will never be on TV or be able to re-unite with their estranged family for a quick game of pick-up baseball with enough people (if all the ex's show up) to have 2 teams and a bat boy.
2) Zodiac sign change. Do I really have to go into this? Are people still following these things? I thought horoscopes and zodiac signs went out of style with smoking and cocaine. If there is anyone out there that determines how good there day will be based on their zodiac sign... I'm sorry that your about to have to start reading your vague description of the "person or event that will bring you great fortune , though it may not be in the financial form".
3) Verizon iPhone. This one is great, all of the millions of "angry" customers on AT&T can finally jump ship and go to a "better" network. Is anyone willing to think back to why AT&T has the issues the do (which are getting better)... it's because soo many joined the network at once with iPhones, think it won't happen again? More importantly; ALL CELL PHONE COMPANIES SUCK. You're always gonna have a dead zone and if your luck it won't be inside your home. I do personally love apple stringing everyone along to create a greater demand that "coincidentally" lines up in the middle of all the new iPhone 4 buyer's contracts. You can pay more to switch now... or pay of the phone with AT&T and then switch for another two years to Verizon (win win for Steve). Either way you will be paying twice as much as you would had you just stayed with AT&T and just dealt with the fact that you can't call your friend right after you leave work and have to wait until after you pass the homeless guy that talks like Casey Kasem.
Love you guys,
D-Ron
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