February 17, 2006
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Major: Psychology 101
Course: Break the grain
There are no rules in life, besides the cultural rules that bind you.
Life can be full of any combination of jsut some of the following activities:
surfing, eating, writing, driving, building, voting, parenting, inventing, typing, complaining, creating, shooting, helping, cooking, talking…
your destiny can be altered if you break the grain, if you take on different cultures of thought and action.
you can be a desk clerk or a CEO. You can be a great CEO, or run your company into the ground. You can go from business to politics, or into education. You can teach, or study and research. You can study medicine and become a doctor, or develop new medicines. You can help sick animals, or treat sick Africans. You can run a tour group in a foreign country, or run the PTA in your own community. You can speak to people, or write letters. Publish a blog, or a book. Sell 150 books, or over a million. Become famous, or become a forgotten star. Spend your wealth on nice things, or live modestly. Use your free time to grow personally and professionally, or to socialize with friends and family. Read a book or watch TV. Watch American Idol or watch The Daily Show.
Choices…all choices.
You can accept your place in life, or work to change it. Believe in yourself, or focus on your faults. Commit suicide, or go for help. Take medication, or change your thinking. Learn about the mind, or rely on blind faith. Believe in god, or not. Go camping in the cold this weekend, or not. Sleep through class, or not. Go to the gym, or not. Run away, or not. Make that phone call, or not. Establish goals, or not.
i will be e-mailing my essays soon, sorry for the delay to all of you who have given me your e-mails. Big things may come of this, or not…guerilla marketing, getting my hands dirty, pushing onwards, as they say…the future’s so bright, i gotta wear shades!
hangin’ loose
-dan
Comments (1)
ryc: i am going to get travel insurance. I havent really started looking into but it is pretty cheap….though super basic…..once i start looking more, ill let you know. if you come across anything, let me know. Lonely Planet has a lot of good information on there bullitin board site.