I just finished watching Wall-E. Now I know several of you are thinking LAME! Not to mention a few of you said that when I so much as mentioned it to you, I choose to believe this is because your friends are thugs. Wall-E if nothing else is a fun way to show off your HD TV at 1080p it has a surprising amount of oomph behind it. The story of Wall-E besides being a love story between two cute robots is that humans broke the planet and left on a “vacation” while robots were supposed to be cleaning. The movie never explains why the other billion Wall-E robots stopped working but at least a whole bunch of humans return and try to farm a little plant.
Now I know that a constant stream of ridiculous activities and experiences pepper my life but there is a problem! Filtering all of this. Now I could just stream a constant running log of all the things I do but even if I changed the names to protect the innocent it wouldn’t be terribly hard to figure out who I was talking about. But you know what they’ll live!
Chris realizes he is destined for great things. As he sat quietly in Billy Juan’s he looked heavenward and was inspired.
People constantly make promises to themselves that are rarely if ever kept. A huge offender of this is the dreaded New Years Resolution. I’m curious as to why people feel the need to wait and entire 365 days and sometimes 366 just to lie to themselves. I’m not trying to preach to anyone because I know also practice this activity. There’s been many promises made in my day and a lot of them I didn’t keep ranging from what not to eat or drink, who to hang out with, or how to spend my time. But at the time of making these promises I earnestly felt that I’d keep them, I’m curios if there is a way to ensure that the same conviction that made the promise can be carried through day to day life in order to ensure its completion. Say for instance something as going to the gym, its easy to buy the membership, easy to decide you’re going to go, its even easy to go buy a large amount of gym gear. But when it comes to actually getting off your behind and going that’s a whole other ball game. Putting down the videogames, hanging up the phone, telling your friends bye, that is tough. Even knowing that your goal has obvious and tangible advantages doesn’t even help. In light of the recent financial turmoil a significant amount of people are thinking towards education to ensure that they are kept away from the chopping block. But for some reason I don’t think that’s going to be the secret recipe for most people. Well maybe if I can ‘stay the course’ with my new commitments anyone can.
I spent Thursday at my Dad’s house for Thanksgiving. My uncle Glenn and his family where there, having a good time, arguing with each other and so on. Glenn is a tall guy, the tallest in the family, and he’s got a great sense of humor. He’s the third youngest of six although he looks older because he used to smoke quite a bit. I just found out that he had a heart attack on Saturday, just a couple days after I saw him, he’s fine now, but I still feel a little shaken up about the news. Normally when I receive news like this I take it in stride. I never get upset, or worried, or depressed. When I was held up, I didn’t think about anything, my mind was completely blank, no anger, no panic, nothing. When my grandfather died I didn’t shed a tear, I was sad though, I loved him. This news though came as quite a shock to me and I feel a little weird about it. Maybe I felt a little more connected to him than my grandfather? I never did connect to my grandfather, he’s old, as grandfathers usually are, also he became more and more deaf as his years passed by, and he was getting sicker as well so maybe since it wasn’t a surprise it didn’t hit me as hard. If that’s right then I’m probably going to have a really hard time when my father dies, when I get married and my wife dies, or my kids. I suppose that’s the way of things. Scary to consider.
