Top Few Things I Want to Do Before I Die

I decided today on my way home from work that I would like to make and keep an up dated post about the top few things I would like to do before I die. I don't think I can list them in any particular order and I have accomplished a few of them already. But I will list them as they appear to me and I will try to update them.

• Go Skydiving - Yup I have always wanted to go. I just want to feel that free fall and the parachute feeling
  
• Get Married
• Give Birth
• Get a real job with a real salary
  
• Go to Paris
• Get a College Degree
  
• Go see an Italian Opera
• Go on a cruise to Alaska
• Write a Check
• Buy a car
• Buy a house
• Take a trip to Israel
• Get rid of headaches
  

Vince And Larry: The Crash Test Dummies

What ever happened to our beloved Crash Test Dummies? I am not speaking of the band folks, I am speaking of the two characters that we used to see on television during the late 80's and 90's. I did some research on them. The whole purpose was to get people to use their seatbelt. Did it work? Indeed it did. In 1994, the seatbelt usage went from 21% to 73%. Thats a big increase. But what ever happened to these two actors that worked to the Department of Transportation?

Seems too sad that they were retired in 1999. The new slogan is no longer "You Can Learn a Lot From a Dummy, Buckle Your Safety Belt. It is now: Buckle up. Always. Well does that still seem like a quick catch phrase? I would like to see the difference from the time they switched the slogan and retired Vince and Larry to possibly in 2001 or so. If there was a increase, decrease, or stabilization in persons wearing seat belts.

Anyhow, I saw a bumper sticker for these guys on the refrigerator today and wanted to give them a good woot shout out to them for helping our government succeed in a great campaign to help people protect themselves if a crash occurred.

Taking Advantage of a Situtation

How many people in this United States I shall say, would step up to the plate to take advantage of a hardening situation? If anyone knows or has polls on evaluated people on certain situations of how they would proceed, I would like to know this information. I am speaking of life or death situations. If a person had to put their life on the line, in order to save say the life of 100 people, how many would proceed with it? What if they knew the person(s)? If a person had to save a life of possible a family member or close friend, how many would proceed with that?

People are only here for themselves, and as individuals, we sometimes forget about others. We forget that we are not in total isolation from other beings; we forget that we are not separated away from others. Our world, as of any other time, needs to see this fact that we should focus on others rather than ourselves.

Here is a good example. Say a military man is fighting in wartime. He knows he can save about 100 lives, of our enemy. The enemy has waved the white flag and has given up. Now, the military man has vowed to kill our enemy on sight. But the enemy has put down their weapons and are ready to proceed with any constructive measures rather than death. What does the military man do? Does he proceed with killing our enemy to show other enemys that we, stick to our vows of killing another man to prove ourselves? Or does the military man acknowledge the fact that the enemy will convene and understand our reason for wartime, and not kill our enemy?

I hope people will understand our meaning for our existence. It is not to kill and violate one another. We are all brothers and sisters of our oldest ancestors. Let us fold our hands together with another, and let us work together. Not all of us are at war.

Filling the Void

So I have been thinking about it recently and have decided to begin writing my blog the way I have wanted to write my book. The right way. I believe this will be both my memories and my personal internal feelings on life and consciousness. So on that fact I will begin my blog as this.

How do we take criticism? Can we critique ourselves? Can we understand the fact that everyone in life is completely useless? Is life itself useless? The best way I can see life, in my own understanding, is pretty much the following: Your own life has no purpose, no usage, no meaning. We are only here to serve others and provide others with purpose, usage, and meaning. We ourselves, as individuals have no individual meaning. Being in a group, provides meaning. It provides that purpose of fulfilling the void, or the null.

How I see things fit, is we are all null. Everything around us is null. We as human beings use something once, and we are finished. We may use it again later on in a period of time or time as a fraction we know of. Only very few people in this world can have a real understanding of how we exclusively exist, and coexist with each other. The people who look and take care after persons such as these, know and understand, how beautiful they see our world. And it is such a beauty.