By I used to think it was more important to be prepared for the busy season. But now, I’m very much a planner! I have to make sure I’m prepared to take my kids to the movies, to go to the school, when I’m out of town, to go for a walk around the park and to watch the theater, to pick up a friend’s bicycle or car.
Preparedness, in my experience, means not just being able to get your kids to the movies, to get to the school, to pick up your friends, and so forth, but also having some money saved up. So planning is still important, but it can be worth it to make sure it will also cover the inevitable expenses.
I don’t think that we have to plan for everything. For instance, some things don’t require a lot of preparation because they’re something that happens all the time. For instance, I have to plan for when I’m going to take my kids to the movies (with the occasional movie still at home), but I don’t have to make a special trip to the grocery store.
The other two main things that we should do is make sure we get into the right mindset in the right moment. Maybe we plan for our children’ first birthday, maybe we plan for the first trimester of their second birthday, and so on. By and large we dont plan to plan for our children when they die. In fact, theyre like that.
I had a friend who was a cop that made it his business to know the most common things people do while they are alive. For example, he knew how many cell phones people owned, how many games they played, and how many social media accounts they used. He would know how much money people used to spend on these things, too. He was a smart cop, and he also had a lot of time to spend on the things that he knew people did that we don’t.
It is my belief that we do not want to be a society that takes care of our children. We are too busy trying to live up to our own expectations of ourselves. We would be happier if we all just stopped. We would be happier if we just lived the way other people live. We would be happier if we just quit thinking of ourselves as the center of the universe.
What’s really sad is that I spend so much of my time on other people’s facebook pages and other people’s twitter feeds. I don’t need to do that. I mean, I have a facebook and a twitter account. I don’t need to go do them, either. I don’t need to be the center of the universe. But I don’t know why I don’t spend more time on things that I do. I dont think I’m evil.
As a lot of other people I know, I find myself in the awkward position of being both the most annoying and the most boring. But I also have to admit that I do spend so much time on social media sites that I get so caught up in it that I can get distracted by anything. I dont think that’s the way to be happy.
I think that’s because social media has made it easier to be the center of the universe. You can be the person who spends all day on Facebook, watching the latest celebrity gossip, and then you’re the only person who knows what went on in the latest celebrity gossip. Or you can be the one who spends all day on Twitter, watching news about whatever is going on in the world, and you’re the only one who knows what the latest news is.
The problem is that we are bombarded by news. Facebook is all about status updates and news updates. Twitter is all about breaking news. And there are a huge number of news services. If there’s one constant, it’s that news is always changing. The Internet is like an ocean filled with a variety of news outlets, and if you’re not using the right news service, your news is going to get out of date quickly.
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