On Emergencies

It is common for something to almost go horribly wrong. How many times have you almost been in a car accident? How many times has someone's phone gone straight to voice mail when they were doing something that could be dangerous? How often do people say I almost died?

But when it comes down to it emergencies do not happen that often. A vast majority of the time everything works out and the bark is a lot worse then the bite. This is why I really have trouble figuring out why people are always so worried. Things work out 99% of the time, you can not live life waiting for the 1%, you need to live life expecting everything will be fine.

"you can't always get what you want but if you try sometimes you just might fine you will get what you need"

The Golden Rule

The Golden Rule has many meanings. For the purpose of this blog I am going to be going off of the Christian quote/saying "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

As a child people are taught to treat others like they want to be treated and everything in the world will be great. People are taught to believe that what they want and value should be the same as what everyone else wants and values but it is not that simple. People all want different things and the way that I would like to be treated varies greatly from someone who has different expectations, interpretations, goals and mainly desires in life.

Some people want you to be honest
Some people want you to be nice
Some people don't want to talk to strangers
I love strangers
Some people want to be taken care of
Some people want to be left alone
Some girls want guys to buy them flowers
Some girls care about things that matter
Some men want to protect
Some men just want to love

This creates a problem because many people believe they are acting in the best interest of everyone because people see things through their own perspective. Some people feel special when they receive phone calls so they might call people they care about without thinking about how much they hate the phone. It is both difficult and important to always reflect on what you are doing and not how it effects you or what you believe is correct but how it effects the person you are dealing with (specifically in one on one situations.)

So I throw out 2,000 years of Christianity and propose a new Golden Rule.

"Treat people how they want to be treated, not how you want to be treated"

Magic vs Science

Today when I was at work I noticed a bunch of magnets on the back table. Being that the store was empty and I was pretty bored this became my subject of entertainment for a little while. When I was playing with the magnet I was talking to someone I worked with and he was saying that the first time he...lets say pleasured himself...as a young boy he thought he had invented it. When I heard that I thought about what people would think about magnets if they did not know anything about them.

I would think it was magic. When I held a magnet close to a key and the key moves toward it and was practically floating all I would think is magic. This is why it is so easy to astonish children. It is easy for them to believe because they want to believe they are not looking for a way out. The fact that a magnet works is just as magical as it is scientific...same with any kinda technology or natural phenomenon.

Maybe people should stop finding science instead of magic...and start accepting magic

Silly thing happened on a drive around town...part 2

So last night I got out of work and met up with Jay...we then decided to call someone else. They had been pulled over. So we decided to find them pulled over. We saw a car pulled over, followed it with me flashing my high beams through three turns and at least a couple of miles. We finally got to a driveway and they pulled in. I decided not to follow because at this point we realized this person may not have been our friend.

We were correct.

Throughout the remainder of the evening we passed at least 6 different cops on countless occasions. We eventually realized that something had to be going on. Then we realized that it was break for high schoolers.

So heres the knitty gritty:

More cops are out when high school kids are just trying to live their life and its messed up. Let the kids do what they want to do. Stop trying to teach people that they need to leave to be left alone. All of these students are going to be in a worse spot after the ticket then an adult would be and they are not bothering anyone...so stop with the ageism yo. Lets all have fun.

PS If you are a mall cop, it is important to know when you ask kids why they think it is okay to hang out at the mall you sound like a moron. The mall is a place to hang out, get over it.

PPS We also picked up a stranger and drove them home. He called himself Speedy...nice guy

Tail Lights

Today I came to the conclusion that if I do not die or get seriously injured in a car crash then Jacob has definitely touched me and everything will be okay (lost reference.) But really...I drive a lot, I could be a little safer and I drive sometimes when I am really tired I need to be careful.

Despite this fact my friends and I spend a lot of time driving around town. Tonight I was driving around with my friend Zac and we came around the corner. When we came around the corner I noticed that on this busy and not well lit road their was a car parked in the lane with a teenager getting in. This was not that dangerous or crazy except for the fact that the person was in park (no brake light) and their tail light was out.

I felt like we should let these people know that even though Zac believed they already knew that their was a problem with the car. He assumed it happened when they were changing the stock headlights...because they did change those. In an attempt to follow them I pulled into the Yorktown High School parking lot and eventually hunted them down and pulled next to them.

When they rolled down their window and we informed them about the tail lights the response from this high school girl was, "They are not broken they are tinted." Then she drove off as her friend yelled thanks anyways.

I will never be as cool as that girl for having tinted tail lights. But I am also more likely to survive driving around then I thought...people are a lot less safe then I am.

Really? Tinted tail lights?

Meeting People

I love meeting people. I even kind of miss being an obnoxious 15 year old in the Jefferson Valley mall or the Cortlandt Town Center that talks to everyone. The same people who I see and think, I can not believe I was one of those annoying little kids who think they are hot shit.

The reason I like meeting people so much is their is always so much ahead of the relationship (whether or not any type of relationship ever manifests.) When you meet someone their is a 50-50 chance (okay maybe not 50-50) that they can become your best friend or someone who you never see again. Everything that they say is so intriguing because you are trying to take the little knowledge you have about the person and build an entire back story. People learn about what they have in common and even more-so what makes them different. It especially helps that when I meet someone new I have an open mind. If a friend or acquaintance explained a theory or hobby I have a predetermined perspective on the ideas...this does not happen with new people.

I think the best example I could think of this is a college survival guide I once flipped through in Barnes and Nobles. One of the chapters one entitled "Beware of the Fake Relationship" ... or something like that. The idea is that when people see someone who they are attracted to they begin to create a back story and relationship that may be completely inaccurate. In the course of a philosophy lab you can see a cute girl, decide you have the same taste in music, think about how cool it would be if she came to a party at your house, debate whether or not your bad habits will bother her, plan out how you will defend your values and eventually decide not to even bother talking to her. It is better off to leave this without the unhappy ending.

I guess this blog does not have much of a moral...I just really enjoy meeting people and believe other people should too.

Tonight

My main plan for the evening is to tweet 310 more times...I am pretty excited about it.

and i feel like a tool but I am enjoying myself...