Refer to my "What a good day thread." It's been good. Went to Pebble Beach, probably one of the nicest places around, to watch the Pro-Am. I am a minor connoisseur of houses i think, i was eyeing the mansions. Some of them must be worth around 15 million. At least that big one i got a shot of was.
What else happened, got the highest grade on the last Calculus test out of over 60 students.
And I got my brother's PC working. Working quite well too, a 77$ processor basically functioning as a 198$ processor. Thank you OCing skillz.
Also, some good golfing after school has made me particularly happy. 2 over par for 9 holes is a pretty good score for me, especially since my home course is no easy course at all. Birdied 1/3 of the holes... booya.
Only one element was able to detract from my lofty feelings... a bunch of students that graduated from my high school, and some who didn't graduate (already know where this is going?) died in a car accident. No, i'm not sad for them, and that's exactly the problem. The whole community is getting all whiny about the deaths... well let me elaborate on the way they died. 4-5 kids, all of them under 21, all but one of them was completely wasted. The only that wasnt drunk is a 17 year old girl without a license - she was the driver. She did, get this, a U-TURN in the freeway, into oncoming traffic and got hit, and all of them died. I said i simply had little sympathy for people who are that stupid. Of course, i always feel bad for the loss of human life for no purpose... but i also get mad when i see my classmates, leading their damned hedonistic lives, drinking and driving, endangering the lives of themselves and others because of their own stupidity, and taking these huge chances thinking nothing bad will ever happen of it. Then, when the percentages and statistics finally manifest themselves in reality, it hits them like a brick wall. They hear about these stupid kids and get all emotional about it. I'm over it already, i already identified the kids as under achieving, hedonistic, and incapable of making the right decisions. They made a decision that risked the lives of themselves and others and they got what was coming to them. Some people call it a tragedy; I call it natural selection. Am i a monster? No, i'm a realist. You do stupid things, people get hurt. Lesson learned, do not get plastered and then have an unlicensed individual drive and make a U turn into oncoming traffic on the freeway.
Now, i will continue to rant about this. I'm in charge of playing music at lunch at my school; we setup some speakers in teh quad and i blare some sweet music. So Wednesday i picked out some particularly good music on my MP3 player, including ACDC - Highway to Hell, a damn fine song. Well the Student Government Director comes up and he's like "Is the music you picked representative of the people that died?"
I answer
"No, we just picked out some good music, we could play music in honor of them on friday, how about that?"
"Well, i dont know, turn this music down. Hmm, Highway to Hell, that song doesn't work. No, that is totally inappropriate for you to play this song after what happened. Fade it out now."
So, with great resignation and anger, i faded out a great song. Rules of DJing: don't stop a song that's already in motion!! And i was so pissed off; he actually had the friggin nerves to dig so deep into the song, to think that playing Highway to Hell implicates that these students that died are now on a highway to hell. The thought had never crossed my mind, i wanted to play good music, and was basically accused of being extraordinarily rude and stupid. Well f0ck, i didn't let that crap enter into my mind. I'm trying to live my life and have fun, not spend every second in mourning. People die every second, and when people we know die, we make this big deal out of it (what is it Stalin said, "the death of a few is a tragedy, the death of many is a statistic" something like that).... and one of the people doing the DJing with me was crying over it (women, so crazily emotional) because i was not so sensitive to the situation. All this goddamn pressure on me.
People make bad mistakes and they die, don't dwell on it, don't cry, don't b1tch, moan, complain, don't bring your school down, don't make people feel bad about it. Learn from mistakes. Don't drink and drive. Yet people at my school are the same dumbass seniors who have been graduating for decades; they never f0cking learn. They will continue to do stupid things and cry about it.
The truth is, rewards and consequences are the way that life works. Good choices lead to rewards; bad choices to consequences. These consequences shouldn't frighten people into crying. They are real consequences taht everybod should have considered earlier, before the terrible choices were made. It's all natural selection. I'm such an elitist person here. I think we should have random drug testing in my school. Simply because i don't want to hang out with all the under achieving people. Not that all smokers are dumb, i know some that are very good people. And some that are just dangerous and insane. At any rate, a line needs to be drawn somewhere, and they add nothing to my educational experience, i want them to be thrown out to a different school. You guys know that i took 3 years of Spanish and never got a B on a test, yet learned close to nothing??? Why? The classes moved slow as mollasses; we constantly needed to provide fo rthe needs of the slow, lazy, and stupid. Well i'm tired of waiting for them. Please deport them to other schools where you can take them off the leash and let them kill themselves or whatever it is they do with glass bottles, needles, pills, and steering wheels. I want to achieve so that i may have the knowledge to contribute something long lasting to society.
That's the goal of life my friends. Basically, to be a good person, maintain high moral values, encourage growth of the mind, body, and soul, and of the goodness of humanity. And, also, everyone must find a niche in society, and do whatever they do best for society. And, with their income, they must care for themselves, others, and spend enough free time to fully understand themselves. Life is about reaching perfection. We live in a society, we need to perfect it .
I hope i'm not the only one that feels this way.
End rant.
