Until you try something, you never know what is possible. You can never know how something will turn out till you try it. People can plan, and predict things till they are blue in their face but its still unknown till you actually try it out. We all know that we should try new things, it makes us better people. But what keeps us from doing this, and actually trying it out?
It’s the fear of the unknown, the gnawing sense of unease in the pit of our stomachs when we are faced with something new and never seen before. If this unease, malaise, whatever you want to call it, is strong enough it will paralyze you and stop you from doing anything. Its not good when your fear of the unknown stops you from trying something new. The thing is, most people don’t see it as a fear of the unknown, they simply see it as them being happy where they are right now. Because they are happy, they see no reason to try anything new. This is the bigger problem in my view. What if the new thing that you’re passing up could make you happier than you are right now? Wouldn’t you want that?
I guess what I’m trying to say is that you shouldn’t be content with where you are right now. If you have the opportunity to try something new, try it. Give someone a chance, and see what could possibly happen. You never know, you might end up happier than you were before. And happiness is what really counts, right?
Happiness, now that’s a tricky issue. What’s a good measure of happiness? But wait, can we measure happiness; it that even possible to do? Or is happiness just something that we will never truly be able to understand and figure out? I don’t think we can directly measure happiness, there is no happiness level indicator that we can tap into and monitor, but we can measure happiness through actions and words. Based on a person’s actions and what they say you can typically get a fairly good idea as to how happy they are.
I guess to bring this post to closure; I’m not sure where I’m trying to go with it. I was bored and this ended up writing this. In summary, try new things, give people a chance; you never know what might make you happier than where you are now. Happiness, of course, can only be measured indirectly by actions, words and mannerisms. So go, be happy!
Bond orders his vodka martini, another great scene from the movie:
Part of me wants to go to some place and order the drink. Dry martini, with three measures of Gordon’s; one of vodka; half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it over ice, and add a thin slice of lemon peel.
Its my sister in law’s birthday today, so a couple of weeks ago I went and got the Nintendo Wii for her. Getting one was an interesting time, to say the least. I went on a Monday morning to the Nintendo World Store in Rockefeller Center. Monday because I have nothing to do early in the morning, and because I thought there wouldn’t be too many people there waiting in line for one.
Boy was I mistaken. The store opens at 9am, so I got there, in my mind, early at 8am. But there was already a fairly long line there. But that’s not all, Beyonce was doing a concert that morning. And guess what time it ended? That’s right, 9am. Just as the line starts moving into the store, hundreds of Beyonce fans start crowed the door where she will come out from, which incidently happens to be right in the middle of the line. So, we’ve got this line of people that don’t care about Beyonce trying to push their way into the front to keep going into the store. Beyonce fans pushing their way into the front. And police officers trying to keep everyone back.
Finally, everyone gets into the store, and we wait on line. Huge line simply because people used all the confusion to get in front of other people and push people out of the way. Anyway, they have enough for everyone, and I am able to get mine at like 10am… After waiting two hours for it. I guess it was worth waiting in line for it because the Nintendo World Store runs out of them everyday and gets a new shipment everyday.
The oddest thing happened today at lunch. I was at this deli that serves Korean food in the back. Yeah, its not as shady as it sound. The food is actually really good, and fairly cheap. So, I order my bi em bap (I have no clue how to spell that), with an extra egg, and am waiting for them to make it. As I’m waiting one of the workers comes up to me, and starts speaking to me in broken English. He goes, “You movie star? In that solider, Iraq war… Black helicopter…” From what I understood, he was asking if I was in Black Hawk Down… Where he got this from, I don’t know, I don’t even look like any of those actors…