Its All About Choices

So imagine this… Your sitting at your favorite restaurant… The menu is sitting closed on the table because its not like you actually need to look at it cause you get the same thing every time.  You order your meal (Say a burger and fries) and when it arrives it tastes great and you walk away feeling full and satisfied.  Not only did the meal taste great, but it left you feeling full, and probably about 1000 calories, 100 carbs, etc etc as well.  You don’t really realize how bad that burger and fries is bad for you until its 300 pounds later huh?

Now imagine the same thing all over again.  Except this time, you decide on something healthier for you.  Say the steak with a side of vegetables.  You still walk away feeling full and satisfied because not only did it taste great (assuming this place can’t screw up a steak) but you feel full and this time are walking away with much less (500 calories, 8 carbs, etc etc).

Recently I started the whole “Low Carb” diet.  I tend to eat out a lot and I don’t really anticipate any resturant carrying low carb menu anymore because lets face it… low carb was sooo 5 years ago right.  But I started stepping back when the menu was handed to me, and thinking for a couple of minutes about what to eat.  Instead of getting “the usual” or something else that wasn’t good for me… I started looking at what items would be best for me.  Needless to say when I couldn’t order that huge burger with french fries I was disappointed, but once my food came I was pleasantly surprised.  The meal left me feeling the same way I did when I would eat the burger and fries but this time I wasn’t full of all the crap that is bad for me… This time I was full of the good stuff.

I quickly came to realize that food is all about choices.  You have a set of requirements, they are pretty basic and everyone has them:

1. You want something that will taste good (who likes bad tasting food???)
2. You want to be left full at the end of the meal (no one likes being hungry)
3. You want this food in a timely manner.  (no one likes waiting or cooking forever all the time

These requirements are pretty easy to fill ya know?  The vegetables come out in the same amount of time as the fries and taste just as good.  I just found it very interesting that the healthy food accomplishes the same exact goal as the non-healthy food.  Which of course makes me think… why for all of these years have I chosen the un-healthy food?  Maybe the fact that the un-healthy food is constantly marketed to us alot more then the healthy food.  Kinda makes you think what else is being marketed to us that another better alternative is available..  but that is a blog post for another day.

My Million Dollar Idea

So I was reading an article on CNN the other day that talked about family members drowning in their car because the current was too swift to allow them to open the door.  I know they have tools to smash glass but those don’t help much for people who don’t have access to them.  I purpose we build a device that detects if the car is flooding and then automatically breaks the glass for you, releases the seat belts, and unlocks the doors…  I’m sure an electrical pulse or something could be used to break the glass right?

I know for a fact you cannot open a car door once the car is submerged until the pressure equalizes in the car (therefore the car also needs to be flooded on the inside but most likely you have passed out by now because of panic of trying to open the door and taking up too much oxygen).

By breaking the window, you could provide an escape exit as well as a quicker way to flood the vehicle and open the doors.

Again just a top of the head idea for anyone who has the know how to make it happen… I’ll only take %20 of the profits… ha!

Makes us think what we could all accomplish if we just banded together

Read this today: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/09/hawaii.volunteers.repair/index.html and it really made me think what the rest of the US and World could accomplish if we just banded together and got it done.  Just some food for thought.

Something that would have taken years, took eight days… Imagine what we could do for cancer or AIDS or poverty.

Morbid Thoughts Anyone?

So I saw this the other day and starting thinking… hmmm I do that sometimes.  I would love to get peoples thoughts.

Bible Quotes

Recently I have been really thinking about the plans for my life and what this path will lead to and such so I thought I would share and get thoughts on the Bible quotes I have been thinking about:

“I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. (Jeremiah 29:11)”

“Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. (Proverbs 16:3)”

“Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope (Romans 5:3-4).”

“Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and don’t lean on your own understanding.  In all things acknowledge him, and he shall direct your way. (Proverbs 3:5-6)”

 

June 26th 2006

June 26th 2006 was the last time I wrote a personal note to myself and just myself.  After that on June 29th I got a Live Journal… Then I got a myspace….  Here is a quick part of the posting from June 26th:

Someone once told me, live your life for the present, forget the future, and learn from the past.  Mainly telling me that if you try to live for tomorrow you miss
today, if you forget the past you are destined to repeat it, and that
you should focus on each day one at a time.  Personally I think it was
some good advice, a little hard to follow sometimes though.

Interesting what you are thinking when no one else is around huh?  The question that always bugs me with how the internet has grown and bloggers have become huge is are we writing to sooth our souls and vent our frustrations of life like so many have done in the past with the hope of no one ever seeing the thoughts, only something to look back upon and remember?  Or are we writing with the hope that readers will come along, post, and talk about what we wrote?  Has this all just become another way for people to get attention?

Ever remember the simpler days when myspace and facebook, and livejournal didn’t exist?  If you wanted to post your thoughts you did it in a book with a lock on it and good hiding place.  Now everyone feels the need to express their right to freedom of speech and expression in hopes of becoming the next 15 min segment on cnn or the next Don Imus…. (If you don’t know who Don Imus is…. Google it).

Tonight I’m just wondering about the simpler times.  You didn’t write hoping people would read it, and talk to you about it, you wrote because you really just needed someone to listen who wasn’t really listening.  Someone who wouldn’t say anything and just let you vent.

Now with the internet so big, we sit here and listen to PODCasts that random people post, and how people put their lives on the internet for all to see.  Then it is these same people that bitch when their identity gets stolen, or then end up some victim in a stalker case or even worse.  Then they start exclaiming “Why did this happen to me…..” and they honestly have no clue.. It never reached their minds that during their quest for the 15 minutes of frame, some freak show could latch on and not let go.

People urge to express themselves so much nowadays, standing behind their right to expression and speech, yet half the people in the world can’t even tell you where that freedom came from or why we even have it.  If you don’t believe me, check out Jay Lenos “Street Talk” segments.

Not what I intended this post to be….  but hey thats what it turned into….. my good old right to free speech.

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Invictus

Invictus — William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.