Up late

Well its approaching 3am here on the west coast, not that I receive any interest on the east coast.. Matter of fact I don't have much interest on any coast lol. Anyways, like I said its approaching 3am.. You may ask why is Shane up so late? Well I would respond with, that's none of your business. But, I have a little cough and earlier I took a nice 3 hour nap so I'm feeling pretty fresh at the moment.  I just saw Sherlock Holmes 2. Good flick. The movie makes we want to speak in a British accent and devise many plans with nothing more than the tools around me. But those are two gifts I have yet to acquire... Personally, life now is good. Many friends are venturing home for Christmas which is always fun. This is always a solid time of year where people are often more cheerful than usual.

The purpose of my writing is this. I have been giving thought to a message taught by a friend from the church recently. If your reading this and are saying "I hate church"! well please stick around, this also has a humanitarian message. If your reading this and are saying "I hate people"! well I'm sorry. There are a lot of people around. Life must be tough. lol :) (sideways smiley face)

I would like you now to think about a time where someone, maybe a friend, or just some random person made your day.

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Maybe it was a hello, or a phone call or a text or whatever. A time where someone went out of there way to make your day better. This act, for some, may happen all the time. But for many it doesn't. For this "Christmas Season" aka the season of giving. How bout we actually give something. I'm not saying that we all clean out our savings and make it rain in the streets, but how bout we call Grandpa and Grandma just to talk. How bout we pick up some food for a homeless man. Pay for the persons meal in the drive thru behind you. Pay for a friends meal because, well... they are your friend, and they have to deal with you. Tell your parents you appreciate there hard work and thank them. These things take little effort.

I feel like if we took 5 minutes to be a little nicer and give, then we would appreciate it more when it happens to us.

People helping People.

Feel free to make someones day. They might need it. -Cheers.

Interest

I'm making an effort to do this more frequently. By this I mean blog, and by more frequently I mean more than twice a year. I don't know how much "Good Knowledge" I have for you today. But, I stumbled upon a paper I wrote for my English class a few years ago. You may ask, why do you still have the paper around.  Well, because I never throw anything away, and I still use the folder. Lol

Nevertheless, the paper was on 1968, a crazy year which truly shaped our country. Vietnam was happening, MLK got shot, riots upon riots, hippie movement. It was nuts. I remember my teacher said that if there was ever a year where it would have been possible for the United States to self destruct, and cease to exist it was then. Jeez.

For the paper, we had to read the book "1968" and write a 7 page paper on the prompt.  Well I bought the book, skimmed through it and returned it. Sorry Barnes and Noble... And for my paper I ran low on quotes, wrote 5 pages and got a B. Whoops. Hah..

But thinking about all that history, where 40ish years later we look back and go "wow".  All those things that happened then that shaped the world we know today. My mind just wonders, from our lifetime, me at least (1990- to hopefully 2065.. -- 75 years seems like a good run. Lol.. I wonder though, what will be the events of our generation that people 50 years from now go "wow" about? Obviously 9/11 will be forever remembered... But what else? I hope our generation is remembered for more good things then bad, but on the other hand.... Who doesn't like a good riot?

Till next time -- Cheers