After what seems like an eternity of a Blogging hiatus, I have had a great amount of time to contemplate some things which have always bugged me, and I think now, the time that some begin thinking about New Year's Resolutions, is a very appropriate time to discuss one of them.
As for me, I neither make nor care to make any resolutions for the new year, knowing that the novelty of self-improvement will soon wear off and will only leave me feeling like crap due to my inability to complete the task. However, there are some out there (Wackos mostly) who not only make, but abide religiously to their resolutions. For any of those people I just mentioned or anyone out there who even attempt to make a resolution, here is an idea for a resolution. And even if you aren't one of those people, read it anyway-it can't hurt.
First- Your priorities. Something I find very disturbing is the fact that Americans are so readily willing to dispense of BILLIONS of dollars each year on sport related junk- football television packages, tickets, crazy memorabilia, and whatever else you spend it on. Star athletes are payed 10's and 100's of millions of dollars each to throw a ball around, while doctors and medical researchers and nurses and police and firemen and teachers, just to name a few, often barely scrape by. Granted, some doctors make very good money, but there are also small practice doctors who don't make a killing and also have tons of college debt to pay. The fact is, plain and true, that this is sick. The people who shape our futures staying after hours at their job to help a kid better understand their classwork so they can go on and succeed, those who risk their lives to protect us from harm, death, pedophiles, murderers, drug dealers, those who risk their lives to pull us out of burning buildings, or raging river or the rubble of a fallen building, those who go into work and research hours upon hours a weeks to help us find new cures for diseases and improve our quality of life, those who go into work knowing that they will get sneezed on and coughed on by sick people and have to listen to people's story of every ache and pain, all of these people taking valuable time away from the time they could be spending with loved ones- all of these people make a mere, tiny fraction of what athletes make. And what do they contribute. In the case of many, nothing. And what kind of examples are these people for your children- for anyone for that matter? I admit, there are some who are good examples, and do do good things, but nevertheless, we must look at where our priorities are. The same goes for celebrities and singers.
So, next time you go to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on sports tickets or show tickets to some rap concert, or before you subscribe to that TV sports package, etc....Why don't you stop, and take that money and donate it to a cancer research fund, or a the library of a local school, or the local fire or police department, or to a soup kitchen, or adopt a family for the holidays, then take the time that you were going to spend watching that game or you were going to spend at the concert or whatever, and volunteer. Before you make the purchase or spend your your time, think. Think about where your time and money go. It is so ridiculously simple to make a difference nowadays. You only live once, you might as well make a difference doing it. Come on America, let's sort out our priorities, see what really matters in the world. Get yourself and constant need to be entertained by mindless crap off the top of your list. Just a bit of advice from me- The Rinker.
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