They say I'm crazy. I tend to disagree. They say that proves it, because there is no crazy person who agrees he's crazy.
I don't have a cell phone. Never had, never will. I have a home phone
though. Whoever wants to find me can call me there, and if I'm not at
home can leave a message. When I'm outside I don't want to be bothered. I
go outside to enjoy the day, look around at the gardens, and the
beautiful houses, watch the ocean's playful waves stroking the beach, or
the birds floating in the air, the airplanes, in other words everything
that's around me. I also go out to run errands, and I don't know about
you, but if I talk on the phone at that time, I can't really concentrate
on what I have to do. If I really need to make a call while being
outside, I use public phones. Then, there's the time when I'm in the
office, and of course I have the office phone. So, you see, I don't
really need a cell. I have no idea how to text, and honestly all those
"smart" phones, I don't know how "smart" they are, but I've never heard
one asking me "Hey, buddy, how are you today? Wanna grab a coffee
together?". People call me crazy for that.
I don't have one of those Facebook,
Twitter, etc. accounts. But I have all my friends' addresses and home
phones in my mind and I keep in touch with people I care about. I don't
really need all the people in the "neighborhood" to know where I was,
and what pictures I made. I don't believe that if I have an account,
there would be more than 15 people who are really going to be interested
in my pictures, or I would be interested in theirs. Plus, the friends
of my friends' friends to be my friends - EXCUSE ME... It takes years
for someone to become a friend and clicking the "Accept" button on a
website is not going to make it any faster. I treasure my friendships. I
often see friends for coffee and chat. We go shopping. We get together
at home, cook and talk while our kids play around. I found out that all
these activities, with people who are close to me, take less time and
give me more pleasure, than keeping online in touch with everybody else.
So, I often say - this Facebook etc. stuff is so crazy. What I get as
an answer is - "No, you are crazy!".
I don't have a laptop. What I would need to be on the top of my lap is a person I love. I don't need a computer in my bed, nor in the café. I have a home PC to work on or for occasional browsing, mapping, etc. I have one in the office. I don't think it's a good idea to take the work computer with me during the weekend in case there's lots of urgent work that cannot wait. The only thing that I believe can't wait and can be lost for good is the precious time spent with the family - husband, wife, kids, and grandkids, no matter how annoying they can be sometimes. I never wished I worked more. I wished I lived more. I don't feel like putting a laptop on my legs and having a Skype call with my family who live half an hour away. I go see them. Hugging them for thirty minutes is better than chatting for three hours. Skype is of course great for long distance relatives. It really helps ease the lack of their presence when I see them on the camera. So I'm not saying it's useless, but I don't need to buy a laptop just for this purpose anyway. And they call me crazy for that.
iPad, ipod, iTV, itouch, iFeel, it's only I, I, I.. Where are the others? Nowhere around me for sure. I'm pro weStuff. Let's go out for a movie, grab a slice of pizza, go dancing or just walking around the city, enjoy the sunset, may be even the sunrise. I don't want to spend most of my time texting, clicking, swiping and gazing at some flat screen instead of being part of the real 3D world. How about those virtual games? Let's go skiing in front of the TV. It's so much fun, I bet the air is cleaner than in the mountain, plus you can ski in your underwear and certainly entertain the kids. Or why not play tennis in the living room? I don't need to invite friends to the court, I can just play with some cartoon (then guess who the Looney is). I hope my opponent is going to come up with some crazy funny joke... When I was a kid we went outside to play together. Now kids gather inside to play with the computers. What's next - invent a pseudo "ME" to play instead of us, so we can do, I don't know what, but it would be so cool... I'm telling you, the world's gone crazy. "You are crazy!", snaps the world at me.
I don't like fat free milk. Have you ever heard of a cow that gives fat free or low fat milk? I don't think so. If the cow is not made to give it that way, then making it fat free is wrong. I'll drink it the way the nature made it because nature is much smarter than we are. If I don't want to be fat, I'll just drink a cup, not a whole gallon. Same with all the gluten-free, sugar-free, cholesterol-free, brain-free products there. I'm healthy. I need wheat. I need sugar, not the cancerogenic sugar-substituting products. I need fat. That's how my body is made. If it gets too much then it's a problem, but I'm not going to deprive it from what it needs. I eat meat. Nobody can convince me this is wrong or unhealthy. People have always been predators. Sometimes I eat for pleasure, but mostly to live. I'm a city person. That's why I need someone to kill the animals for my dinner. If I go back to the wild, I'll kill them myself. Nature made the world so cruel to survive on the death of the lower levels in the food chain. Homo sapience is on the top. So don't blame me for just being natural. If I have to survive on just plants and nuts, I'll go nuts! They say I have to eat five servings of fruit each day (who can eat so many, by the way). Well cocoa is a fruit. So, often one of my servings, and sometimes all of them, is chocolate. Nobody says those fruits shouldn't be in the form of a banana split, or strawberries with ice-cream, or cocoa in the form of chocolate. I just LOVE chocolate. I can eat five bars without having the slightest feeling of nausea. I've always said we have food for the body and food for the soul. Both are equally important, but shouldn't be overused. They say "drink lots of water, it's healthy". I'm going to drink as much water as I need to. I believe that anything in excess is not only unnecessary, but actually harmful. Unless, of course I intend to attend some peeing contest and really want to impress the audience. So I tell my friends - I don't have any restrictions. I eat and drink whatever I want in regular amounts. I also move around a lot. Mostly walking, swimming or running. I can go out and run in the rain, I can run in the cold, I can go and run at six in the morning to escape the heat, but there's no way you can make me run on a treadmill in some smelly gym. I'm fit, healthy and happy. Despite that, they still call me crazy.
What's with the wisdom teeth? Everybody takes them out as soon as possible, the moment they come out, as if they are some radioactive or poisonous foreign sprout in their mouth. Recently, I got a painful cavity on my wisdom tooth. The dentist didn't even bother to consider making a filling. She just told me - well we'll extract it. WHAT? I'm going to go to some dental specialist, have my relatively healthy tooth out, go through the recovery and the pain, pay all the money that no insurance wants to pay for this... I've gotta be crazy! I just made her do the filling and in 30 minutes I was fine. Still am. The other thing that bothers me is how every kid wears teeth braces. Does anybody really believe they are SO necessary? "This kid's teeth a bit crooked. They might get some cavities in the tight spaces. And it's really hard to floss between them. My advice is, instead of taking a whole hour to make fillings of the cavities at some point in the future, IF they appear, why not we spend a few days to put teeth braces, and make him wear them for two years, make him come every month for adjustments and then wear the retainer for a while - oh, that's lots of fun, this kid is going to like that! And the cost for you, if you choose the most basic teeth braces) would be no more than USD 5000. It's totally worth it! Let's do that!". My teeth are not perfect. My kid's teeth are not either. So far we're fine. I don't need my teeth to look like some South Korean army in my mouth. I don't need my kid to have a perfect smile. He has his own, very charming a little "crooked teeth" smile. What's next - people are going to do plastic surgery to fix the difference they have in the left and right side of the face? Or maybe it's a good idea for all of us to look exactly the same and perfect. Who needs perfection? Well, I guess I might sound crazy.
I like to let the sunshine in my apartment. Every morning I pull up all the blinds and if the weather is nice I open the windows. I even open the doors to make it brighter. Some neighbors say I have no privacy. Well, if the architect put windows and made it in a way that others can see my rooms, then it shouldn't be that wrong. I'm not going to live like a mole in the dark or take away the purpose of the windows by pulling down blinds all the time, just to suit the others. If they are embarrassed to see me, then they shouldn't look. My home is my castle. I have to feel comfortable there. Even if they call me crazy.
Often, if not even all the time lately, when I look around I see so many people doing crazy things. Sometimes I tell them "You are crazy!". Of course they tend to disagree. Which kind of proves they really are.
I don't have a laptop. What I would need to be on the top of my lap is a person I love. I don't need a computer in my bed, nor in the café. I have a home PC to work on or for occasional browsing, mapping, etc. I have one in the office. I don't think it's a good idea to take the work computer with me during the weekend in case there's lots of urgent work that cannot wait. The only thing that I believe can't wait and can be lost for good is the precious time spent with the family - husband, wife, kids, and grandkids, no matter how annoying they can be sometimes. I never wished I worked more. I wished I lived more. I don't feel like putting a laptop on my legs and having a Skype call with my family who live half an hour away. I go see them. Hugging them for thirty minutes is better than chatting for three hours. Skype is of course great for long distance relatives. It really helps ease the lack of their presence when I see them on the camera. So I'm not saying it's useless, but I don't need to buy a laptop just for this purpose anyway. And they call me crazy for that.
iPad, ipod, iTV, itouch, iFeel, it's only I, I, I.. Where are the others? Nowhere around me for sure. I'm pro weStuff. Let's go out for a movie, grab a slice of pizza, go dancing or just walking around the city, enjoy the sunset, may be even the sunrise. I don't want to spend most of my time texting, clicking, swiping and gazing at some flat screen instead of being part of the real 3D world. How about those virtual games? Let's go skiing in front of the TV. It's so much fun, I bet the air is cleaner than in the mountain, plus you can ski in your underwear and certainly entertain the kids. Or why not play tennis in the living room? I don't need to invite friends to the court, I can just play with some cartoon (then guess who the Looney is). I hope my opponent is going to come up with some crazy funny joke... When I was a kid we went outside to play together. Now kids gather inside to play with the computers. What's next - invent a pseudo "ME" to play instead of us, so we can do, I don't know what, but it would be so cool... I'm telling you, the world's gone crazy. "You are crazy!", snaps the world at me.
I don't like fat free milk. Have you ever heard of a cow that gives fat free or low fat milk? I don't think so. If the cow is not made to give it that way, then making it fat free is wrong. I'll drink it the way the nature made it because nature is much smarter than we are. If I don't want to be fat, I'll just drink a cup, not a whole gallon. Same with all the gluten-free, sugar-free, cholesterol-free, brain-free products there. I'm healthy. I need wheat. I need sugar, not the cancerogenic sugar-substituting products. I need fat. That's how my body is made. If it gets too much then it's a problem, but I'm not going to deprive it from what it needs. I eat meat. Nobody can convince me this is wrong or unhealthy. People have always been predators. Sometimes I eat for pleasure, but mostly to live. I'm a city person. That's why I need someone to kill the animals for my dinner. If I go back to the wild, I'll kill them myself. Nature made the world so cruel to survive on the death of the lower levels in the food chain. Homo sapience is on the top. So don't blame me for just being natural. If I have to survive on just plants and nuts, I'll go nuts! They say I have to eat five servings of fruit each day (who can eat so many, by the way). Well cocoa is a fruit. So, often one of my servings, and sometimes all of them, is chocolate. Nobody says those fruits shouldn't be in the form of a banana split, or strawberries with ice-cream, or cocoa in the form of chocolate. I just LOVE chocolate. I can eat five bars without having the slightest feeling of nausea. I've always said we have food for the body and food for the soul. Both are equally important, but shouldn't be overused. They say "drink lots of water, it's healthy". I'm going to drink as much water as I need to. I believe that anything in excess is not only unnecessary, but actually harmful. Unless, of course I intend to attend some peeing contest and really want to impress the audience. So I tell my friends - I don't have any restrictions. I eat and drink whatever I want in regular amounts. I also move around a lot. Mostly walking, swimming or running. I can go out and run in the rain, I can run in the cold, I can go and run at six in the morning to escape the heat, but there's no way you can make me run on a treadmill in some smelly gym. I'm fit, healthy and happy. Despite that, they still call me crazy.
What's with the wisdom teeth? Everybody takes them out as soon as possible, the moment they come out, as if they are some radioactive or poisonous foreign sprout in their mouth. Recently, I got a painful cavity on my wisdom tooth. The dentist didn't even bother to consider making a filling. She just told me - well we'll extract it. WHAT? I'm going to go to some dental specialist, have my relatively healthy tooth out, go through the recovery and the pain, pay all the money that no insurance wants to pay for this... I've gotta be crazy! I just made her do the filling and in 30 minutes I was fine. Still am. The other thing that bothers me is how every kid wears teeth braces. Does anybody really believe they are SO necessary? "This kid's teeth a bit crooked. They might get some cavities in the tight spaces. And it's really hard to floss between them. My advice is, instead of taking a whole hour to make fillings of the cavities at some point in the future, IF they appear, why not we spend a few days to put teeth braces, and make him wear them for two years, make him come every month for adjustments and then wear the retainer for a while - oh, that's lots of fun, this kid is going to like that! And the cost for you, if you choose the most basic teeth braces) would be no more than USD 5000. It's totally worth it! Let's do that!". My teeth are not perfect. My kid's teeth are not either. So far we're fine. I don't need my teeth to look like some South Korean army in my mouth. I don't need my kid to have a perfect smile. He has his own, very charming a little "crooked teeth" smile. What's next - people are going to do plastic surgery to fix the difference they have in the left and right side of the face? Or maybe it's a good idea for all of us to look exactly the same and perfect. Who needs perfection? Well, I guess I might sound crazy.
I like to let the sunshine in my apartment. Every morning I pull up all the blinds and if the weather is nice I open the windows. I even open the doors to make it brighter. Some neighbors say I have no privacy. Well, if the architect put windows and made it in a way that others can see my rooms, then it shouldn't be that wrong. I'm not going to live like a mole in the dark or take away the purpose of the windows by pulling down blinds all the time, just to suit the others. If they are embarrassed to see me, then they shouldn't look. My home is my castle. I have to feel comfortable there. Even if they call me crazy.
Often, if not even all the time lately, when I look around I see so many people doing crazy things. Sometimes I tell them "You are crazy!". Of course they tend to disagree. Which kind of proves they really are.
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This article is part of my book "The Game", which consists of short stories, each of them with different philosophy, psychology, humor or out of the box thoughts that might change people's perspectives on things. Sometimes it is just a laughable input from possible life events.
In my other book "Make Our Kids Happy" I share my experience as a mother of a special child. Along with the description of the obstacles and my feelings I also share how I changed because of this event. How the whole problem actually helped me gain a new perspective on Happiness. I reached some conclusions about what can make a person happy and how our the way we perceive the world affects our kids without us even realizing that.
My books have original and fresh style that will definitely have an impact on you. I want to enrich my readers with something. As I like to say - give you some food for the brain. And may be something from my books will turn out to be a window that shows to a direction you've never looked before. Or at least I hope it'll be a window with a view you'll find totally worth looking at. You can find Thank you all
This article is part of my book "The Game", which consists of short stories, each of them with different philosophy, psychology, humor or out of the box thoughts that might change people's perspectives on things. Sometimes it is just a laughable input from possible life events.
In my other book "Make Our Kids Happy" I share my experience as a mother of a special child. Along with the description of the obstacles and my feelings I also share how I changed because of this event. How the whole problem actually helped me gain a new perspective on Happiness. I reached some conclusions about what can make a person happy and how our the way we perceive the world affects our kids without us even realizing that.
My books have original and fresh style that will definitely have an impact on you. I want to enrich my readers with something. As I like to say - give you some food for the brain. And may be something from my books will turn out to be a window that shows to a direction you've never looked before. Or at least I hope it'll be a window with a view you'll find totally worth looking at. You can find Thank you all
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