Don’t take life for granted

Everyone’s time on this earth is limited. There have been roughly 3,000 years of human history. Billions of people have been born. How many dead ones can you name? Probably a few thousand. Your day-to-day problems are inconsequential. Let go of them and be happy. Enjoy life to the best of your ability.

Ambition is useless. Chances are highly in favor of you being a statistic when everyone you know personally dies. This isn’t something that should depress you. Don’t chase status because no one will care how much money you made, how attractive your spouse was, how big your house was, or what car you drove. Your tombstone will be the same as everyone in the graveyard you’re buried in.

Don’t work too hard. Life is too short to be stressed out and busy all the time. I finished Tuesdays With Morrie last night and it reinforced a few of my values. Success is not defined by money, material possessions, prestige, or even intelligence. It is defined by those you love and those who love you. Those who are always busy or angry don’t have much time for love. They are the least successful people in the world, no matter what their salary. Despite all outside appearances, they’re tortured and miserable.

In Tuesdays With Morrie, Morrie recounted that when he was able to drive, when someone angrily passed him in traffic because he was too slow, he would turn to them, smile, and wave as they drove past. He said many times their angry faces turned into smiles as well.

More people should slow down and take time to smile.

 

Are you successful?

What has the world come to when kids complain about snow days?

Honestly. This week’s life lesson is going to be short and to the point.

 

YOU ARE A STUDENT

THERE ARE LIKE 20 SNOW DAYS!

ENJOY IT!

Especially if you’re a SENIOR, you have no right to complain. We’re leaving a week early anyhow, so who cares? AND a lot of us are taking mostly AP classes, meaning we won’t be doing anything after the AP tests are over with. I, for one, would like to enjoy that extra time with my classmates, seeing as how the next time I see some of them may be in like 20 years at a reunion or something.

Oh no, this week’s lesson was already covered!

     So, my last post was only meant to make up for my lack of posting last week. As I began to write this week’s lesson, I noticed that Corey Sheldon (who I’m subscribed to) already covered the topic of returning to childhood, but I’m going through with it anyway because it’s been a pretty big part of my life lately and, well, I don’t have a backup plan. So here goes:

 

“You should take time out to return to your childhood every once in a while.”

Unless you had abusive parents, or were orphaned at a young age, childhood was probably the happiest time of your life. If you were like me, you had no worries and no cares, drifting along through life doing whatever you wanted, whenever you wanted, with no real responsibility. As you have aged, the amount of responsibility has grown substantially, your beliefs and personality have changed, you now have cares that you didn’t know existed as a child.

It’s important to take a day out every once in a while to do the things you enjoyed doing as a child. Block out a day of all responsibility and do whatever you did then. Read the books you read in elementary school, watch the TV shows you watched in elementary school, even play the games you played back then. Turn off your phone and don’t get on Facebook. Just relax and recuperate and if you feel ridiculous doing so, then I pity the fool.

If it’s British, it’s better

Sorry for the lack of updates. I've been lacking that creative spark lately and all I want to do is lay around and chill. This week's lesson is:

"The British have better taste.”

I'll let pictures do the talking.

 

USA                                                                                                                     UK

                  

    

      

                  

 

 

Of course, America has the UK beaten in a few areas (privacy, military, for the most part not as pretentious, music in the past 10+ years, we don’t have chavs, etc), but let’s not get into that. I think I made the points I wanted to make.