Well Worn In

I don’t know about you, but for me, if you can play a sweet banjo, there ain’t much that can bring ya down.

House of the Rising Son? Yes.

If you don’t know what postsecret is, find out.  I’ve been reading every Sunday for about two years now.

I suggest watching the entire thing.

Life is all about decisions.  We make decisions based on the information available to us at that moment.  Sometimes, the decisions we make turn out to be good.  Often, though they turn out to be bad.  Sometimes, in the end, too, it turns out that it didn’t really matter what we decided, it all turned out the same.

But this about bad decisions.  Not bad decisions in terms of getting too drunk, or skipping class.  But bad decisions, on a grander scale.  Course of life decisions.  It occurred to me recently that I had made a poor life decision–and my life was literally miserable because of it (Miserable: adj. 1.) ~3 hours of sleep a night  2.) Living on someone else’s schedule 3.) Cleaning up the messes of others…).

Was that what I wanted?  Obviously not.  But it was a means to an end.  So the real question was, was the ends worth the means?  That answer was much more difficult to answer.  I found comfort in my friends and family and realized that it was not worth it, despite the promising rewards.

In the end, you’ve got it stop, take some time to think, figure out what’s important to you.

To me, it’s family, friends, school, fun.  Necessarily in that order.  So I restored order to my priorities, and thus, to my life.

Live feed interviews are typically pretty boring.  Some guy or gal in the field reporting on a topic which you care very little about.  They are always way too serious, even about the stupidest things, like a peanut hunt at a local day care.  Then there’s that delay, which I’m convinced they put there intentionally these days.  The delay is just awkward.  The reporters always move their heads too much, too.

But sometimes, sometimes, they can be entertaining:

This first gem comes from the original American Gladiator series.  It’s worth watching until Malibu begins to speak.

Then there’s this guy.  I like the sound effects, and his buddies  in the background.