5 Things To Brighten Your Day
Posted on 21. Oct, 2008 by The Gimcracker in Gimcrackery, Stuff On The Internet
It seems like everywhere I turn I’m pimp smacked by the hand of bad news. Doom and gloom abounds on TV, in the movies, and even everyday conversations with people. Our economy is dying. Both presidential candidates suck. Gas prices are way up. The Colts played terribly on Sunday. Global warming. Murder. Abortion. Capital punishment. Genocide. Disease. Famine. Pestilence. Death.
This stuff doesn’t bother me. I don’t dwell on it very often. Heck, maybe I should, I don’t know. But one thing’s for sure, there are many more things in the universe that should put a smile on your face than a frown. Here are 5 of them off the top of my head.
#5 Our Country
Think about the fact that you can choose to vote or choose not to vote, and it’s nobody’s business but your own. You don’t have to tell anyone who you voted for or why, and you can have any political viewpoint you want without worrying about anybody (legally) threatening you. No matter who wins the election we will still be the best country in the world with the most powerful military, the highest GDP, and the best schools and corporations, regardless of what doomsday political know-it-alls are “predicting”.
#4 Taco Bell
Any time of any day that I so choose, I can get in my car, drive down the street, and shop at Taco Bell. Or Hardees. Or Subway. Anywhere I want to eat, I can. And I can eat whatever I want. I thank God for this privilege.
Yes, I consider my visits to fast food establishments to be shopping trips.
#3 Roads
Did you ever stop to think about how you can go anywhere you want? You can get on the interstate, which is probably not far from your driveway and get anywhere in the entire country (besides Hawaii). Or, you can drive to the airport, and get on a plane that will take you anywhere in the world (besides Antartica).
But the roads are especially neat to me. Some people complain about road construction. I see it the other way around. Someone is utilizing a bunch of amazingly-engineered heavy machinery and constructing a road for my pleasure. That brightens my day to think about.
#2 DVR
I can pause and rewind live TV. So can you. Even if you don’t have DVR yet, don’t worry about it. It’s one of those things that every household will have within the next 5 years, like dishwashers, microwaves, and cell phones. If you have a TV, you will have the power of DVR. And it will be magnanimous.
#1 Earth
Our Earth is indestructible by human hands. And most other powers too. The Earth cannot be blown up by bombs, and there is no comet or asteroid big enough to destroy the Earth. Even Mars isn’t big enough. If it smashed into the Earth, it would not destroy the Earth (unless it was going at an unbelievably high speed). Mars is only 11% of the mass of the Earth. The object would have to be as big as Venus, which is 81% Earth’s mass. And it would have to be traveling at 50,000 miles per hour. To find out just how hard it is to destroy our planet, see this article.
So, we live in the greatest country on the most resilient planet in the solar system, and we can travel to any Taco Bell we want on a very sophisticated highway system without missing new episodes of The Office. If that doesn’t brighten your day, I don’t know what else to tell you.
Dude, that article is based on that website I told you about a couple years back with all the rad sci-fi fiction on it. If you like “Heroes” you’ll love the the newest story line, “Fine Structure” (although I know you don’t read much).
And yes, the sun is shining, the wind is blowing, the earth is turning, and God still does have the whole world in his hands… Life is God.
Oh that first link is really good. It was the link I was looking for when I was writing this post. Nice.
I’ll have to DVR Heroes. Although I don’t know if I’ll have time to watch it. I don’t get into primetime dramas very often.
Yes, that is magnanimous! It may also be beneficent!
The magnanimity of it astounds me.
Man, if you don’t already watch heroes, it’s kind of pointless to start now unless you find a way to watch the first two seasons. You’ll just be lost. In fact, it would be like jumping in on “Lost” at this point. Or starting out by watching “Return of the Jedi”. Just silly…
Yeah, I kind of live off of Primetime Dramas. I just blazed through the first three seasons of Battlestar Galactica. I don’t usually get into the Reality TV shows that much though. It’s like I’m the bizarro you or something…
Speaking of bizzaro, I enjoy Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. I don’t really watch many reality shows anymore. Mostly just Discovery channel, Nat Geo, and SNL. The case of SNL these days is the tops.
How fun! But the gleefullest part of that cheery post is the smiley in the sea of blue frownies. I turned yellow and grinned just glimpsing it!
magnanimously beneficential!