If you suddenly find yourself in a sea of overweight people you should immediately stop what you are doing and look down to check your own current progress towards coronary clogging. We live the way people around us do, or that is to say that the law of attraction is a force of life that must be reckoned with. The law of attraction states basically that if you surround yourself with successful people you too will be successful, surround yourself with happy people and you will likewise be happy, surround yourself with funny people and you will eventually become funny...but wait, so could it be that this law can actually have a negative affect also? Ever been to Wal-mart? Notice how fat people tend to be with fat people, or angry people with other angry people? Without a doubt the law works both ways, positive and negative. Therefore we need to surround ourselves with the characteristics that we want to have shown in ourselves. So all I'm saying is, if you want to be a certain way, go be around that way of being and sooner or later you will become what you wish. Of course its not some magic change that will suddenly happen overnight but I guarantee as time goes on if you take some time to ponder and reflect you will notice changes coming about you simply because of where and with whom you've been spending your time with lately.
I recently came across an article online that gave me a little bit of hope for mankind. All day I see people littering, cheating, lying, and just not being good people; and I've often thought to myself wow everything has gone bad, there is no good left but every once in awhile someone does something good and they get noticed. I like the following article because it shows us that you can be humble and do the right thing, its shows that most people really are good deep down but they are just shadowed by the darkness of a few. Here it is from the New York Times:
March 18, 2009
Leap to Track. Rescue Man. Clamber Up. Catch a Train.
By Michael Wilson
Subway heroes, as they are inevitably tagged even before the grease from the tracks is rubbed off, come along every now and then — indeed, as the story of Chad Lindsey suggests, perhaps more often than we know.
Minutes after rescuing a man who had fallen onto the subway tracks at the Penn Station stop on Monday, Mr. Lindsey managed to melt back into the anonymity of the city, escaping the notice of the police, paramedics and subway workers.
“I’m of many minds of being in the spotlight,” he said after a call from this reporter, whose short account of the accident on The New York Times’s City Room blog on Monday prompted one of Mr. Lindsey’s friends to disclose his identity on Tuesday. “But what the hey,” he said.
Mr. Lindsey, 33, is from Harbor Springs, Mich. He moved to New York City three years ago and settled in Woodside, Queens.
He can take it from there:
“I was waiting for the C,” he said from his office on West 30th Street, where he works as a proofreader. “I’m an actor — shocker.”
He said almost everyone seems to be an aspiring actor nowadays, but in this case, it is a critical point to the story: Mr. Lindsey currently appears in an Off Broadway show called “Kasper Hauser,” in a role that requires him to repeatedly lift a character who cannot walk.
On Monday, as he waited for the train, about 2:30 p.m., he was thinking ahead to the reading he was heading to. “I’m kind of zoned out, and I saw this guy come too quickly to the edge,” he said. “He stopped and kind of reeled around. I felt bad, because I couldn’t get close enough to grab his coat. He fell, and immediately hit his head on the rail and passed out.”
Mr. Lindsey said he sensed a train was approaching, because the platform was crowded. “I dropped my bag and jumped down there. I tried to wake him up,” he said. “He probably had a massive concussion at that point. I jumped down there and he just wouldn’t wake up, and he was bleeding all over the place.”
He looked back up at the people on the platform. “I yelled, ‘Contact the station agent and call the police!’ which I think is hilarious because I don’t think I ever said ‘station agent’ before in my life. What am I, on ‘24’?”
The man wouldn’t wake up, he said. “He was hunched over on his front. I grabbed him from behind, like under the armpits, and kind of got him over to the platform. It wasn’t very elegant. I just hoisted him up so his belly was on the platform. It’s kind of higher than you think it is.”
He stole a glance toward the dark subway tunnel that was becoming ominously less dark, with the glow on the tracks, familiar to all New Yorkers, signaling an approaching train.
“I couldn’t see the train coming, but I could see the light on the tracks, and I was like, ‘I’ve got to get out of this hole.’ ”
He remembered the subway hero of 2007, Wesley Autrey, who jumped on top of a man who was having a seizure on the tracks and held him down in the shallow trench between the rails as the subway passed over them. “I was like, ‘I am not doing that. We’ve got to get out of here.’ ”
People on the platform joined the effort. “Someone pulled him out, and I just jumped up out of there,” he said. With time to spare: “The train didn’t come for another 10 or 15 seconds or something.”
The man lay bleeding on the platform, and the police arrived. Mr. Lindsey soon got on another train. A large group of riders who had been on the platform entered the subway car with him, smiling and clapping him on the back and saying thank you.
“Then I sort of freaked out, and I was nervous and shaky. These five women opened their purses and gave me Handi-Wipes. I was covered in blood and dirt from the subway tracks.”
The fallen man was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital Manhattan and was later released.
The police identified him late Tuesday afternoon as Theodore Larson, 60, of the Bronx.
Mr. Lindsey, of course, never learned the man’s name. His story told, he said goodbye, adding, “It was quite a New York day.”
Let me just get it out there that I really don't respect the overweight populations of the world. Really any fat person that just read that and now suddenly hates me should actually just stop and realize I haven't said anything to you that you are not already saying to yourself! By being overweight you are simply showing a lack of self-respect. You are saying to the world "I don't care how I look, feel, or affect those around me." So really by being fat you are being selfish too. It is impossible to make the argument that in anyway being overweight is healthy. True it is harder for some genetic backgrounds to stay fit as their bodies naturally deposit fat easier than other people's but far too often this has been used as an excuse to completely forget about exercising. In today's world with all the junk food, preservatives, chemicals, elevators, and any other thing invented to make our lives easier, YOU HAVE TO WORK AT BEING HEALTHY! Of course this is all old news right? But yet you still make excuses as to why you didn't make it to the gym today, or why you didn't have time to take the stairs, or how you can't afford to eat healthy, its all crap. Anyone can live a healthy lifestyle if they choose to. "But really there is no time!" That is a lie. If you make exercising a priority in your life you will make time for it, all you have to do is cut out some of your wasted time such as watching TV, making sure the house cleaning gets done before anything else, reading your second novel of the week, screwing around on the internet, preparing a five course dinner when Pb & J sandwiches will do, and the list goes on and on. You know your life best so analyze it from time to time and prioritize the important things and cut out the clutter. Your health is really important to you and those around you who care about you, so start taking control of you fat....its embarrassing. Now let me just clarify about what I said about how I don't respect fat people. What I really feel is a lack of respect for those overweight who are do nothing to help themselves, the ones who just accept themselves for what they've become, the good things in life always come at some kind of cost...in this case a little bit of sweat.
Just what is it that makes people the way they are? What I really mean to ask is why people are so obnoxious? It is as if people just assume that the whole world revolves around them and that they are the only thing that is important to the world. For example, I'm sitting in an airport gate right now waiting for a flight. Apparently there is a flight in this same gate that has been delayed. This one jerk decided it was his new found purpose in life to let everyone around him know that he wasn't happy about the whole situation. He proceeded to curse to himself every swear word under the sun and vocalize about how he was going to be late. Now, what can possibly be so important in his life that he actually makes mine worse by using such language and making such a scene? In my opinion, nothing. I couldn't care less if he was going to be late, my flight is on time. The guy just needs to realize that the whole situation is out of his hands and that he needs to take a deep breath and chill. I tried to put myself in his shoes, maybe his wife is in labor? Maybe his son just got in a car accident? I thought out a bunch of scenarios and none of them really give him reason to "freak out" like that. If anything he should be more calm than the rest of us in a counter to any problems he might be facing. I really think that if I were in that positions I wouldn't have a moral breakdown and go crazy, which brings me to the main question, is that due to nature or nurture? Does he freak out because he has learned that throughout his life its beneficial in stressful situations, or do I remain calm when everything goes to hell because its in my DNA? Or maybe the real answer is due to a mixture of both? All I really know is that people need to be more self-observant and take a step out of their shoes and realize what they are actually saying and how they are actually acting when people are watching. Our actions do affect the people around us in negative or positive ways. I wish people wouldn't be so in shelled and oblivious to the people around them thinking that they are the only ones around. If you've got a problem keep it quietly to yourself, because frankly we don't care about how your dad just got beat up by someone and how he's now in the hospital (the something slovagian lady behind me is going crazy on the phone about her dad who just got beat up by Russian mobsters or something). So there's my rant. Stop being so loud about stuff we don't want to hear.
All that I really have to rant about is myself today. I have found it really hard to get on here and write about anything...there just is no time. There are all kinds of things that get on my nerves on a daily basis but they take time to write about and I just can't advocate spending time on them instead of doing homework for Spanish or reading for Biology. I'm only taking 15 credit hours and then work just 4 hours each weekday; really I should be able to organize my time better and find time to trash on something or someone but I haven't. I guess I can always make the excuse that its been nearly four years since I did the whole "school" thing but...excuses suck so I'll just admit it, I need to get better at getting everything done.
So I'm ready for summer! The snow is nice and everything but it just gets old too fast. Summer is great cause you can always just go outside and do something...while during the winter its just cold and you can't really doing anything fun out there. Maybe its because I don't snowboard? Everyone else seems to love the snow and they all get upset that it doesn't snow...but I'd just rather see all the snow melt away and let's get on with the warmer weather. Don't get me wrong here the snow can be fun and its without a doubt pretty...at first; but after a while the snow doesn't melt and it gets all dirty and then winter just drags on and on. Unfortunately its only January and I live here in Utah, or in other words I'd better find something to do in this weather because I've still got at least 4 more months of winter like conditions.
I just have one question really. Why is it that schools are into screwing over kids who just started out on their own? I mean if you think about it, the whole process of leaving home where everything is paid for and starting off in a new life where you basically have nothing is very stressful on its own. Then when you add the factor of schooling and the price of a decent education today it pretty much becomes impossible to succeed in this part of life. I really feel as though the forces around me are trying to help me fail in life not give me a good base that I can build off of. You would think that in our "advanced" civilization that we are living in we would have found a way for people to easily go to school so that they can have healthy productive lives and do the world good in the future. However, what I have seen and noticed is that really by going to school I end up years behind someone that never even had the idea of continuing education after high school cross his mind. I'll be playing catch up to some loser who decided that learning really wasn't for him and I'll be doing it for the next 20 years of my life! Is that right?! We live in a world where you don't have to be smart to get money. Case in point, my fellow employees at Gold's Gym. My manager is 21 years old and hasn't gone to school since high school. Now he's making 90K a year! He's no exception either, all of the people at my work haven't gone to more than a year of college and are making good money, good as in 50k or more a year...they're all under 25. In fact if you are smart and go to school to learn and develop your mental faculties, if you're like me, you'll be way in debt before you even start your classes. By the time I'm 25 at the current rate I'm going I'll actually be about $18,000 in debt!!! Wow suddenly not going to school doesn't sound so stupid. Oh of course I don't have to start paying that back until 6 months after I finish school...perfect! So I can prolong my horrible life until I'm done learning, then if I can't find a job in this wonderful economy that we have built for ourselves I'll really be screwed. But that's the society that we the democratic people have set up for ourselves. I honestly don't know where "they" expect us to get all this money from. "Okay that will be $50 for the parking sticker so you can still have to walk 15 minutes to get to class, another $5000 for out of state tuition that we will put into worthless banners and new projectors that your teachers won't know how to use, $300 in course fees (whatever the hell they use that for), $5 for your student ID that you will never use cause you're too busy, another $400 for these books that this school will only use for 1 academic year before getting the new edition and screwing everyone over, $6 because today is a Wednesday, and then of course the $18 processing fee because it's really hard for us to take your money! So how do we do it?...like I said just borrow the money, pay interest and be in debt for a long time until you finally commit suicide because mathematically it's just not going to work out. If Hitler had won the war, we'd be speaking German and a lot of things would suck but I bet he would have figured out a good system for learning that didn't include making 18-25 year olds going into thousands of dollars in debt thus giving them an obstacle the overcome the moment they finish school.
I'm 23 years old and new at blogging. I thought it would be a good way to use up some of my free time and give my family a chance to keep up with my life.
