Recently, thanks to a certain reader (hey Matt) I have been accused of not having a life. Now having a strange and twisted mind I began to think: "What exactly constitutes a life?" Now we all think of people who don't have lives - those geeks who play online games for hours on end, people who hide in their dorm rooms for no good reason, people who study to much etc. etc. etc.
But go ask any person who "doesn't have a life" and I guarantee you that they will believe that they do have a life.
I think (scratch that: I know) that too often we judge having a life based on what we think is cool and normal. For me - having a life may mean practicing piano for two hours, going home and reading 4 books while munching on swedish fish, then banging on my utar and finally falling asleep watching MXC. For other people it may be going and playing basketball for 4 hours (ruining your knees by the way) and then staying up till 3 in the morning talking. Soooo, what I want to know is your idea of "having a life"
p.s. I'm feeling slightly satirical, so don't be surprised if I reply in a sarcastic manner. in fact I might post something horrendous next time - I just need to think about what.
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I believe that life and significant other are generally considered synonymous. Hence I seem to be similar to a cat in the quantity of lives which I posess.
I cannot condemn any life or system of activity that includes MXC.
my list(in no particular order):
reading is good.
watching excessive amounts of basketball is good.
I'm going to have to go with the whole "signifignt other" concept.
watching movies (quality moives) is good.
**potentially good:**watching DVD'd episodes of entire seasons of hit TV shows while you've been in a bubble has great potential here (see "24" and "Lost")
Thank you, Jon Messenger for bringing in a plug of DVD'd seasons of 24 (18 hours of viewing instead of 24 due to the loss of commercial breaks is always a PLUS). That series is so good I got my 65 year-old GRANDMA hooked on it. Not that that was hard given there isn't anything worth watching these days....
My life at the moment: Listening to cool new soundtracks and hyping up for the movies of those soundtracks (X-Men: The Last Stand being a prime example), Culver's, papers, sleep, rollerblading, and once I own my own bassoon, add 3 hours of that a day, too.
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