Tag: thankfulness
49. How Should We Live Since People Typically Focus on the Negative?
Wow, people complain a lot. People are so negative. No one ever remembers about all the things we do right. They focus on the one thing we do wrong. I mean, it’s not like I was driving all that fast. And he shouldn’t have been stopped in the first place. In life people only really [...]
June 12th, 201298. Thanksgiving (Part 1): Yeah, Don’t Complain. Now What?
One thing that’s always never sat right with me is when people tell others to stop complaining and to be thankful because there are those who are worse off. Like, “Kids, be thankful for your green beans because there are starving kids in Africa who would love to have those beans.” Yeah, as if anyone [...]
November 22nd, 2011120. How I Learned What a Sewer Ejection Pit Is
(Yeah, that’s the carpet I had to pull up to dry. And yeah, that fan says ‘Decapolis’ on it.) So I wake up to water in the basement. But it’s not just water, it’s the drained water from, you know, drains. Like from a sink, a washing machine and toilets. I’ve never thought about how [...]
January 20th, 2011A Friend of Mine’s Baby Just Died
I have a friend who I met on Decapolis, and his baby just died tonight. And here I was complaining about the ending of Lost, Even Lysacek losing to that annoying ‘singer’ on Dancing With the Stars, and having to waste days trying to get rid of some stupid virus on my laptop. An hour [...]
September 5th, 2010
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