Tagged as: Life, Seen-Around
Sep
08
It’s rather obvious that there isn’t anyone in the world that knows all of the other people in the world. It is therefore logical to conclude that each person will encounter strangers. Some people are good at talking to and interacting with them while others are completely unable to do it. Whether it is in line at the grocery store, waiting at the post office, going to a friend’s party (where there are some people that you know and some that you don’t), or sitting at a wedding banquet, it’s pretty easy to see how you handle strangers.
And I find it rather strange that sometimes it’s actually easier to talk to strangers than it is to talk to people that you already know, especially those that you have not interacted with in awhile, and it’s especially true for those that you only know superficially. With people that you knew before, it seems like it gets awkward after the initial greeting whereas (depending on the strangers) it can be much more enjoyable to find out about a person from the start as the conversation continues.
In my case, I often hope not to have to talk to people that I know superficially previously, especially in situations that will span a considerable time (like the aforementioned wedding banquet scenario). It is worlds less awkward to talk to strangers.
Although if the stranger is out to rob, punch, or otherwise do harm to me I reserve the right to prefer a person that I know superficially. And if the stranger is dull and uninteresting, then I also reserve the right to hate talking to the stranger.
Tagged as: Christianity, Life, life in code, Seen-Around
Aug
21
Marriage_Dating.py
too_long = 730 # days, which is 2 years
while you.engaged == False:
# What state are you in?
if you.dating == False:
days_dating = 0
if you.find('PERSON')
you.dating = True
other_person = person_of_opposite_sex()
else:
days_dating += 1
# Date day, hooray!
if you.have('DATE'):
# Here's the juice
if dating.purpose == 'MARRIAGE':
result = you.go('DATE', 'INTERESTING', other_person)
if days_dating >= too_long:
you.dating = False
else:
result = you.go('DATE', 'BORING', other_person)
# Process the result of the date
if result == 'WELL':
pass # Just keep on going on those dates!
elif result == 'ENGAGED':
you.engaged = True
else:
you.dating = False
# Every other day of your (obviously) interesting life
else:
you.go('WORK')
you.go('HOME')
you.go('WEDDING')
other_person.go('WEDDING')
you.married = True
other_person.married = True
you.celebrate()
other_person.celebrate()
README
Here’s some help for understanding this snippet of Python programming code. While you are unmarried, you are either dating someone or you are not. If you’re not dating and happen to find someone that you want to date, then lucky you! The next categorization is you are either actively pursuing marriage or you are not. If you are, I think that you should want to go on interesting dates.
Life isn’t dinner and a movie. Life is crazy and uncertain. It’s hard and difficult. Don’t you want to see how the person that you might spend the rest of your life with reacts? When they’re fording a river, do they get angry and upset with you? When you’re lost in the wilderness, do they get upset and frustrated? When you get frustrated with them, do they snap back? Find the worst in the person. Look for it as hard as you possibly can. Because if you can handle the worst, then you can definitely handle the best.
If you aren’t as actively pursuing marriage then enjoy your dinner and movie.
And if you’re not dating then good luck with being on your own and all of the issues entailed in CT’s The Case For Early Marriage.
Tagged as: Life
May
21
And that is it. More to come after I have all of my thoughts on everything surrounding the marathon.
I am glad that I don’t have a friend named Murphy otherwise he will think that I hate him.
Tagged as: Life, Seen-Around
May
06
He lives vicariously…through himself.
-The Most Interesting Man In The World (Dos Equis Commercial)
Parents do it through kids, friends do it through friends. It happens when you watch television shows, sports games, and internet videos. You envy someone else’s life. They have it better than you. Or maybe they just have the opportunity to have it better than you.
Instead of discovering all that you can do with what you have, you choose to focus your attention on someone else. Their success is your success. Except it really isn’t. It’s still their success. At best, the focus of your attention will give you credit and thanks. At worst, you get nothing.
Why live a life that is so unfulfilled? (I feel rather like I am a motivational speaker right now.) But there is so much to be content with! I can enjoy The Biggest Loser because it is (at its root) about people learning that they can achieve what they could only dream about before.
It is fantastic to be glad that someone has gone and done something great. But I can’t help but always wonder at people when they don’t realize that they could get places that they never dreamed of as well. So while we were not created simply for earthly pleasures, life was definitely not meant to be watched either.
Tagged as: Christianity, Life, Seen-Around
Apr
10
When something is too good everyone thinks that something is wrong. A little while back I made a T-shirt, and it surprisingly turned out decently. Considering that I am not very artistic, it was rather miraculous that the lines were straight and the overall presentation was just fine. However, the most interesting thing that I found was that people that saw it did not realize that I did it freehand. Since the lines were straight and everything looked good, there were some that just thought that I used a stencil while other people did not even realize that I had made the shirt!
It is easy and natural for people to only believe something if they can see the flaw in it. Else they will think that something is amiss (e.g., a machine made the product and you are trying to pass it off as your own work). Most of the time this is spot-on. People are imperfect. Everyone knows this. Why else would we need Jesus? Still it’s rather amusing to note that while people can assume that perfection in other people is acceptable, perfection is a piece of handiwork is odd.
Sing on it Nat King Cole (Mona Lisa).