Why do I blog?

On the randomshapes forum website (Random Shapes is a teen blog network) posted that question and I thought about it.

Why do I blog?

I blog because it lets me talk to the rest of the world, it lets me share my wisdom (I wish), my rants, my life with people. In the last five years we have truly entered the Internet age, an age where people from all over the world can read what each other thinks, likes, wants,etc. I blog because maybe somewhere in the world, someone is reading this blog, and is thinking "Yeah, I think about that too" or "Hey, that's what happened to me", and we all figure out that we're not so much different from each other. I also blog, because of my nerdy/journalist side, as someone who reconizes news as just really someone else's life. I blog because I feel liberated and truly free.......

At the Big Box store

As most of you know, Yesterday was the American phenenomon called Black Friday. Every year in the land of the free, people wake up the day after Thanksgiving, and they rush out the to the big box marts and the malls to get great deals on Holiday gifts. Black Friday is a one of a kind phenenomon which is not repeated anywhere else on the planet....

Americans are know to vicious consumers, and it is more than ever evident on Black Friday. People rushing out of stores with 40 inch LCD TVs and computers, running to get the hottest bargain. In America, people love to get great deals on stuff. It makes you feel better after you got that DVD player at half off, or that camera at next to nothing prices.

What is the cost of all this consumer madness? To save money as a country, we give up hours of precious sleep, and time away from our families the day after Thanksgiving to buy more and more stuff. Is this good for America or bad for America. We may just never know......

Thanksgiving

Today, we give thanks, traditionally for a good harvest season. But now we live in the 21st century, and almost all of us do not work the land nowadays. Thanksgiving, however is still very dear and important to us, because today is the day where friends and family unite to have one nice dinner, usually with a big turkey and all the wonderful sides that have become a common sight on dinner tables.

Today is not only a day to relax and have a good meal, today is the day where we go and have a good time with our friends, family and other people sitting at the grand 'ole kitchen table.

Thanksgiving by itself is a very special day, but tomorrow is the craziest shopping day of the year. One day called Black Friday, people get up at one o' clock do chase the latest bargains at all the big box stores we have gotten so accustomed to over the years. Bargain-hunting in America is almost like a sport, it is one of Americans favorite pasttimes: In search of the next great bargain.

It is the time to give thanks for what we have, it is time to cherish the moments we have with the people so dear to us. There are only two things certain in life; Death and Taxes. Life is too short not to enjoy it. I hope when you are carving a big turkey, or having fun with friends and family, you truly give thanks to what you have in your life.

Futurephone.com

I was reading on NYtimes.com about "Free services to Inspire your cell phone" when I stumbled across Futurephone.com. Turns out if you call 712-858-8883, you can get free international calls to 50 countries, via Iowa (For all the countries you can call using Future Phone click here I haven't tested it yet, but the New York Times says it does indeed work.

You dial the access number in Iowa, and you then proceed to dial your destination number (Note: For mobile users, do not hit SEND after dialing the destination number;the call will go through by itself.) Note that standard long-distance charges do apply.

I wonder how does a company based in Iowa afford to give the U.S (almost) free international calling....FuturePhone is just another breakthrough in this modern world.

Four days

Ah....Thanksgiving holiday has come to the slice of surburbia where I live in. Four days to live life to its fullest, four days to take a break from the hectic days we live as people in this modern world. Four days, 96 hours, one break.

For me it's time to go do things that I have postponed. Do the laundry, write up some papers, read some books, watch some (good) movies, buy some new music, go buy stuff (Black Friday's only two days away). Every single holiday we get, I try to achieve things that I simply don't have time to achieve in a normal weekday.

Four days, 96 hours, one break. What are you doing with yours?

What life really is about

Everyday we wake up. We look at our alarm clocks in disbelief and try to go back to sleep. Then comes the period when we're half asleep and then we realize that we have to wake up. A quickie breakfast, then off to school or work. Eight hours pass, we go home, we eat supper, kids do homework, adults try to catch "Lost" or "Grey's Anatomy. And then we got to sleep and the entire cycle begins again.

If you live everyday simply to get to the next, then you don't live life. Open the windows, smell the clean air, look at the sky. Go out for a jog or bike, just do something outdoors for once. We only get one life, and we should use to the fullest. Everyday for me, I live each day, I don't waste it.

Sometimes we are in a bad state of mind. Sometimes we can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. Sometimes we think we're lost in the sea of life. Life is everything we do, everything we touch. Don't let precious minutes slip by. Minutes turn into hours, hours into days, days into years, and suddenly you realize how much of our lives we've spent unhappy, overworked, and just out of touch with ourselves.

What is life really about? It's about what ever makes you enjoy life.....