Some one has to cut the grass

Having been interrupted during math this morning, my friend turned to me and said "I don't walk in front of him while he is trying to cut the grass. Why doesn't he come in here and try and not have to cut the grass while I bother him." "Some one has to cut the grass," I say to him, "and I bet he makes pretty decent money and if he learns the business he could open his own up and be successful without having to through all this trouble learning math." I pondered upon my comments for the rest of the day. I was thinking about the diffence between making money and not liking what I do or not making alot of money and love what im doing and more than likely enjoy life more than work through life. My first thought was what would I like to do that naturally make alot of money?... I couldn't think of anything, not one field, career or even job I would enjoy doing. So I decided that I wouldn't make as much money but do what I love doing. I am perfectly fine with that. Who needs alot of money when your major activity in life is what you love doing? Only people who don't like how they make their money need the money to buy lavish things that allow them to get away from their tough, time-consuming, emotionally draining job. I continued thinking, there must be something else... Ah! Hah! No mattter if you are a waitress or a mechanic, if you are good at what you do, you will make plenty of money. I want to do something with a History degree. There isn't a whole lot of money to be made with one but if your good you could make a big find or write a phenomenal book and be set for life. I guess the wealthiest man makes his money through passion than makes his passion through money.

Whats with the world these days?

Gas prices have fluxed nearly a dollar because of Hurricane Ike ripping through Texas, destroying an oil refinery. The prices have seem to come under control around here but my room mate found out yeaterday that you can hardly get gas back in Roswell (my home town, a suburb of Atlanta). People are waiting in lines for hours to only be allowed to get about ten dollars worth of gas. Now rumors have begun about school being closed tomorrow due to the drought. If school gets closed how many people can't get to work either becaue they have to take care of their kids or they simply don't have to means of getting there with the shortage. That means that business' can't operate at their best and when business' are slow the stock market crashes and the chain continues from their. The point of all this is one question. Are we stupid? We have the highest generated GDP in the world and we can't manage to out grow petroleum? Brazil has done it. There is something like less than five percent usage of petroleum in Brazil. They use alternative fuels and natural gas. How can a country who has no issue with cutting down the largest rainforest in the world say "Hey, lets keep the tree's healthy before we cut them down" and we can't say "time out! were taking two weeks break from the war to invest that wasted money into an alternative fuel source." The only people I hear trying to do something about it are the oil companies and really, do you think they are gonna "find" a new solution until the old one they make a ton of money with, runs out? I don't think so. The presidential candidates need to be saying "I have a plan, a plan that will save you thousands of dollars a year, a new fuel source." A new fuel source would work miracles for these candidates. Your saving the voter money, your cleaning their enviornment, and your promoting a new school of thought, being effiicient. Not just the highest output or cheapest way, but the least polluting, the most eco-friendly. Now that is a bright new future to promise.

Where do I belong?

Yesterday my bestfriend came home very upset. He is Pre-Dental, a Bio major reccomending sixteen hours this semester, he is locked in his room for hours on end studying for both Chemistry and Biology among his three or four other classes. He had met with his advisor and she had told him that it would be average to get a 3.7 gpa or higher to get into a good dental school. He knew he would ultimately fall short after giving up so much time and effort to this field of study and be left with a Biology Degree that he only wanted to become a dentist. This got me thinking. Im a History major and honestly I am pretty good at it, but am I that good. I wonder how well rehearsed in my specialized area I am going to have to be in order to make some use of my schooling. To write and make a living you must be distinct and moving, to teach and make a living you must be interactive and personable, and to travel and research, what I want to do, you must be the best. Am I the best though? No. Who is the best? No one the way I see. No one will be, there will always be someone wittier, or someone more persuasive, or someone just down right more knowledable than you, but thats the point. Life is a challenge and to see life anyother way is immature and ignorant. So you take what you do have (your knowlege, your wit, and your persuasion) and you play your cards right. You play the game of Life as best you can and if you don't quite make it, thats okay, not everyone can hit a homerun, but just make sure you atleast get your cuts; you can't hit a homer (or a triple, double, or single) if you dont step up to the plate and play the game.

Decisions Decisions

It is Friday now, that makes my stay in Statesboro only five weeks now. Whoever should read this probably thinks im going to start expelling all the upset and emotional feelings I have had in the last five weeks on this screen... i'm not. I'm actually going to tell you how much I have enoyed myself lately. I have had to and will continue to make basic decisions everyday of my life, that I have never even thought of before. One of those simple decisions would be- what to get when I go to the grocery store: How much bread should I get. It won't fit in the freezer and I know it will start molding in about a week or so, but I really want both toast and sandwich rolls. Everyday I make split second decisions that I have just never thought of making before because I would always just ask for a parents/someones opinion. It's not that I can't make the decisions easily on my own, I have just never had to make them. Other times throughout the day also rally my memory cells for their advice such as: should I stay on campus till my next class or not? Do I have enough time to go to the gym today with my Bio test at five? I dont know is usually my answer until it comes time to actually make the decision and do something, but thats okay because I think that learning on the fly means living on the fly, and that will make you prepared for just about everything.