Posts tagged with "life"
Monday, 2. November 2009, 23:14:25
moron, success, life, street smart
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Since when did people's inability to read instructions become so rampant?
It seems to me that more and more often people have forgetten that reading something may actually teach you something. I am not talking about sitting down with an encyclopedia and reading it cover to cover to learn something. What I am talking about is something simple like building cheap particle board furniture from Ikea or learning how to do something new on your computer.
I am not sure why but people are even overlooking the blantant obvious details. For example if a document were to read something like "make sure to read carefully", in big bold letters, then it would probably be important to read everything. I can understand that sometimes people want to do their own thing and I am 100% for that but when it comes to doing something simple and doing it right the very first time then why not read the stuff that will set you on the path for success?
I can attest that I do not always read the instructions on things. The difference though is that I will toy with something until it works correctly. I tinker with things, it's just in my nature. If you know that you are not so saavy in the problem solving department or you just have no understanding of what it is that you are trying to do then do yourself a favor. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.
Monday, 3. August 2009, 18:09:23
playful, time, friends, life
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Abused Memories
Wasted days never to be redeemed by memories.
Thoughts passed on by, by the carelessness of ones playfulness.
The hours tick away one by one and nary a regret seen.
Later on you recall a day without thought and how it could have been.
It could have been a playfulness diverged into memories.
The thoughts and tales of passing moments being beautified.
But forever now those times are gone because you didn't care.
Selfishness shared amongst friends but void of the outside world.
Written by Jonathan W Ostroushko
Friday, 31. July 2009, 18:59:18
time, water, life, trout
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Eventually, over time, the meandering curves that flow through your mind will end up like an old stream running through a prairie. All of those curves will be long lost with age. No longer will there be large unexpected pools of excitement where once the brooke trout darted. The ripples and rapids that used to bring splashes and calming background noise will cease. The river will shallow and widen but the life is still there.
The water will continue to flow although not as pristine as it once was.
The birds will still hover although not quite as many.
People will still be excited to test the waters although less often.
Time will go on.
Night will inevitably turn into the morning, the morning into day, and the day once again into night.
Time will go on.
Written by Jonathan W. Ostroushko
Wednesday, 29. July 2009, 23:22:42
music, life, up, college
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If I had one piece of advice for the young people of the world it would be: Do not grow up.
Your age will inevitably increase and you will someday be able to see pg-13 movies without an adult. You will be able to get a license and drive to school. You will eventually be able to buy porn and visit a strip club. And ultimately you will someday be able to buy alcohol and gamble in vegas. Whatever you do, do not grow up.
Do not go to college.
Do not find a career you will feel stuck in.
Do not take out loans and credit cards.
Do not get into politics or even discuss them.
Do not settle unless you are truly happy with something.
Do not stop perfecting the things you are good at.
Do not ignore the music.
All in all, do not grow up no matter what. You can always be young.
Tuesday, 10. March 2009, 01:18:06
awake, music, club, life
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Life is this perpetual thing. Infinite, not really but continuous for sure. It should never be taken for granted but I think we all do once in a while. I'm not sure how things like this come to a person at such strange times but I am sitting here watching Current. On comes Sigur Ros, a music group that my youngest brother is quite fond of but I have never really heard before and something clicked. Maybe it was the previous call from my one of my very best friends as she was in distress and I sat there and explained how no matter what things will always get better. Nonetheless, something clicked.
I'm not sure what it was it was and frankly it may have been an explosion rather. Something just told me that maybe I need to do something bigger. Sure, the club life is fun. The partying is a blast. I have times I will always remember, I won't stop that really. But maybe I need to do something bigger this summer. Maybe instead of waiting for my next out of state booking to come to me or me searching for it, perhaps in the meanwhile I need to plan a vacation. I haven't had a real vacation in years. Maybe I just need to run away for a bit.
Obligations and ridiculousness are what hold down most people in their mediocre day to day 40 hour a week life. I feel that I have broke free from the mundane quite well in my life but it still feels incomplete. Most anyone would tell you that I am a happy person and I would agree, I even am as I type this but I still feel like there is something missing. I need to feel awake.
Monday, 2. March 2009, 00:12:58
car, life, jackasses, bad
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So last year, three months after purchasing a new car that meant the world to me because of how hard I had worked in my life to purchase my very first brand spankin' new car I was almost killed in it. It was a life changing experience, I haven't been the same since then. I won't go into the whole story behing the accident because I posted about it last year after it happened, you can check out the story with pics HERE.
I am posting this post here because I made a promise to an insurance agent over at progressive insurance. I know he was suprised when I made the promise to him and frankly it left him speechless. It was pretty priceless to see the look on his face when I promised that I would blog about how horseshit the company that he represents is. I told him that I would for certain put information about how shallow his company is in time of need, when a person is at their lowest because their client was beyond responsible for a situation that nearly killed someone.
Let me tell you a little story. So as it were, a day or so after my car accident I had a guy from Progressive insurance call me up and tell me he needed to meet with me and go over some paperwork and discuss some things. I though great, someone is going to give me a helping hand when I need it most, I was sorely mistaken. Sure we talked about paperwork and that sort of stuff and it was towards the end of the conversation I realized how shallow not only this guy is but the company itself. He told me that progressive would give me $100 right there on the spot. I am sure someone with lesser knowledge of life in general may have picked up their pen and signed right there on the spot. But I knew that if I signed the paperwork and took the money that I would get nothing more than $100 to compensate me for someone's life changing mistake.
Now let me stop this right here. I didn't care about getting money. I would have been more excited had someone from Progressive come over to my house and told me how sorry they were for insuring a moron and putting him on the road and then gave me a hug. But that's not the case. Nobody in life cares a whole lot. Certainly not money hungry insurance companies.
So anyhow. I spoke to this joker over the course of a handful of weeks asking when they were going to get me compensation for therapy I would like to go to but wouldn't be able to afford, or when they were going to put a new car in my driveway. They always just told me they couldn't do that. My insurance company, who I think sucks as well but not nearly as much as progressive, couldn't believe how I was being treated. My insurance company told me that if things were the other way around they would have compensated me for much more to admit they caused a problem. Progressive apparently thinks that they can't do any wrong. Eventually it got to a point that I told the guy from Progressive that I was tired of receiving calls from his company and it certainly didn't help me to recover if they were gong to continue to call me and doscuss the accident. He has the balls to ask me what it would take to get things resolved. I got of fthe phone came up with a number that I felt may ease me getting into a new car, that number was $2500. Progressive got back to me real quick with the only offer they could apparently swing, keep in mind this is an insurance company they reaps money from people every day. Their offer... $1000. I told him fine, I'll come down. I went into the room and he explained a couple things at which point I made my promise to him. I told him I would write this blog entry and tell people how shady his company is and it would be stuck online for quite sometime with negative press. He went silent had me sign a paper and handed me the check. The end.
I almost got killed. Skewered by a steel beam, a beam that was knocked off a bridge by the client of progressive. I don't function the same as I used to, I never will. Progressive guy couldn't care less, progressive the company couldn't give a shit. Each day they are too worried about driving around in their expensive advertisement SUVs with more intention on making money than ever helping anyone.
Progressive, your client ruined my life.
Sunday, 1. March 2009, 23:45:17
entertainment, passion, focus, life
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To piggy back on my previous post from earlier today I wanted to put up another post. Sometimes when my mind begins to wander I just can't stop thinking, not sure if this is good or bad. LOL. The truth is that communication is sometimes lost in translation if people can't clarify what it is that is being said.
I think that people need to have more passion for things that they really focus on. Caring and passion are two different things altogether so I don't want you to read this as a contradiction to what I previously wrote. You should definitely have passion for the things that make a difference to YOU in your life. So often I think that people kind of forget about this small aspect. Sure people do have passion for all sorts of stuff. But as far the stuff in your life that you have passion for is it going to make a difference to you or the people around you? Having passion for watching a sport like football isn't going to do shit for shit. What's the point? Entertainment is a beautiful thing but it's just that and you have to be able to determine life from entertainment. Sure you can be an entertainer and that would be a large part of your life but if you are on the receiving end of the projected entertainment then enjoy it for what it is. Don't make something as trivial as a sport a determination for what you do on a daily basis.
Wednesday, 13. August 2008, 17:49:47
happy, life, stupidity, optimism
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When was the last time you:
1. Were supposed to be in the car when one of your best friends rolls the car over and dies.
2. Held the hand of a sibling as they took their last breaths by way of machine.
3. Spent New Years morning trying to hunt down a best friend who was later found by the cops in a snow bank nearly frozen and half dead.
4. Nearly died and were told you only had a handful of hours left because the strep and mono you have has gotten so bad your throat would close up within hours. (#4 recently added because I tried to forget about this, 5 & 6 moved down)
5. Stared death straight in the face as you get nearly killed by a piece of falling bridge.
6. Had to talk a friend down from killing their self with a kitchen knife.
I really don't want people to feel sorry for me because of what has happened throughout my life. People sometimes think that I try to make people feel that way about me but in truth it's just because I am so comfortable with everything that has happened that I don't mind being completely open. But sometimes I wish that people could open their eyes to the world around them and especially their own life to understand that the stupid little day to day details that get blown out of proportion really don't mean shit in the grand scheme of things. People worry day in and day out about nothing, WHY? What are you stressing about. There is so much more to your life that you should actually care about other than he said/she said crap. So much more to care about other than how to not help people by passively helping them only to understand in the end that you will have to help them anyway because people are clueless (yeah I had a certain situation in mind, but I would rather not go into it). Are they really clueless? Maybe it's just the fact that so many people out there are so lonely in their daily life that they just want help.
The funny thing is that I am so much of an optimist that not a single one of the five things listed above have ever really gotten me down. You can throw whatever the hell you want at me and it's pretty difficult to break my optimistic outlook on the universe. What the five things above have done to me have made me open my eyes. I think at this point in my life I appreciate life so much that I just cannot understand the trivial stupidity that other people call problems. If you are reading this and thinking that I am an ass for thinking your problems aren't that bad then you might be right. But then again maybe you should prioritize things in your life a little more as your problems might as trivial as I think they are. I am not trying to be an ass here. I am trying to open some people's eyes to the fact that you are a person with your very own life. You have the power to do whatever you want with your life and you have the right to feel whatever way you want to in your life. Why would you want to feel stressed about something if there is no need to feel that way? Why feel mad, sad, disappointed etc. when you can just move on with your day and be happy?
Sunday, 13. July 2008, 18:55:48
music, bt, life, dj
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Last night I went out to a club I had neglected for a little while to see the internationally famous BT. It was one of the best nights I have ever had in my life. I FOUND MYSELF AGAIN while listening to a friends DJ set of hard breakbeat electronic music. A strange soothing calm came over me and I knew that my streak of despair had ended. I ran into every person at the club that I would want to see and be around and even though some people had some sad issues in their personal lives I feel that my amount of happiness was enough to rub off on them. The music was incredible last night. A lot of it I had heard but I once again felt at one with the music even though I wasn't performing myself. Life once again became beautiful. Everything seemed to continue to align as we even decided to hit an after party where the oddest mix of people that I know came together in some sort of symbiosis that worked perfectly. Junglists were hanging out with house heads and hippies were hanging out with young ravers and every single person had a big smile on their face.
Of course seeing my family yesterday was probably what initially spawned me finding myself again. It was my brothers birthday so my parents had come to pick me up and we hit up a restaurant on the way home, then I made fresh guacamole and Mango/Black Bean Salsa. We had a dinner of tacos, I made mine fish tacos since I am a pescatarian (vegetarian that eats fish and/or seafood). After we all ate me and my brothers did something I hadn't done with them for a long time...we busted out some fireworks and blew stuff up
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It's really strange how things go around and how one second you can feel horrible and then out of the blue you get smacked across the face with the giant salmon of happiness and you feel better than you ever had before. I have a feeling that from this point on things will continue to be great.
WIDGETIZE