Aim.

 

So, it's another one of those nights.  I look at my work schedule, and realize I don't have a day off for nine days.  I've got more bills, my car was acting up, and the weather sucks.  It's one of those nights where the future obstacles, problems, and stress just piles up and gives me this obnoxious headache that makes sleep practically impossible.  That's what Battlefield 3 is for, I guess.

Today went by so fast.  Emily's dad and I worked on her car a bit then tore up carpet for like four hours.  I mean, the carpet-tearing was cake.  I guess it was the removal of tack strips and all the staples that took forever.

I don't think people understand the difference between someone breaking the law and someone following it.  So, the 2nd Amendment says that we have the right to bear arms.  There are people who own firearms.  The law-abiding citizens own the legal guns, use them legally for either defense, hunting, or recreational purposes, and don't run into shopping centers killing innocent people.  The law-breakers sometimes own legally, sometimes obtain illegally, and are the ones shooting others for wrong reasons.

Yes, there is a right reason to shoot someone.  Yes, if you're trying to hurt me or someone else and you appear to have intent to do so lethally, and if I have a gun, I will shoot you if I cannot disable you otherwise.  


Anyway, so, law-abiding citizens owning firearms are not breaking the law.  This just really ticks me off.  So, I mean, if I own a gun legally, and I never shoot anyone with it, should I have it taken because some idiot decided to kill someone with his?  Just because the dude ahead of me on the interstate is going 30 over doesn't mean everyone near that mile-marker outta be pulled over, too.  Speaking of cars, I believe we had 3x more deaths from traffic accidents than we did in homicides by firearms last year.  Ban guns?  No.  Ban cars, jeez.

The 2nd Amendment says we can own guns.  Some other law somewhere else says we can't kill people, generally speaking.  Anyway, what I'm trying to get at is this idea that it's not the guns that are the problem, it's the fact that people are getting killed.  And heck, I'd rather it be a gun.  I don't want to get chainsawed to death.  Frankly, if someone wants to kill someone, they're going to do it one way or another.  Or they'll try, anyway.

I guess I'll stop talking about this, because people are just going to get annoyed.   Check this out, by the way... it's about assault weapons.  Maybe you'll learn something cool.  (Link here)

So, you heard me talking about my stress and all that.  I saw this quote.

"An arrow can only be shot once pulled backwards. So when life seems likes it's dragging you backwards with difficulties or challenges it's probably gearing up to shoot you into something great. Just focus, and aim high."

I'm going to try to go on with this cool little attitude.  And I suppose it makes sense, right?  Think of it like the graph of sin(x), which is pictured below.



I guess you could think of that graph a measurement of the amount of water in a cup.  Bear with me.  Let's say the graph starts at (o,0), which is the midpoint, origin, whatever, and the cup begins half full.  Or half empty. Ha!  As the graph increases in distance from the x-axis (the horizontal line) the cup is filled.  As in decreases in distance (as in gets closer) to the x-axis, it's emptying.

In other words, as the curve goes up, the cup nears being full, and when it slopes down, it heads back to being half full/empty.  Then, when the curve goes below the line (x-axis), it nears emptiness.

Now, think about this... as the cup nears emptiness, that leaves more room for more Mountain Dew to be poured back in.  Yeah, there's not enough, and maybe it does reach complete emptiness, but... It can't get more empty can it?  (Realistically, things can always get worse)  So, eventually someone's gotta refill it cuz a man's gotta drink!

Anyway, when life starts to empty you out, it just leaves more room for you to be filled.  And this graph shows that idea which is that for every up there's a down of equal or greater magnitude.

Soo, when life drags me back, imagine that you're an arrow... soon it'll fire you off into something great.

I know that whenever I'm down or negative, something good always seems greater than it would be if I were already happy.

I guess that's just life's way of humbling us and making us grateful for everything.  And man, that was an awful way of explaining that.  Leave it to me to use Calculus to explain some philosophical thought...

Yes, I'm okay.  I'm just ready for something good.  I have hope that things will turn for the better soon!

Anyway, my headache's gone, and I'm tired.  I'm going to sleep.  Good night guys.  Like the Facebook page, please! :D

 

Random fact of the day:  When I was writing this I almost typed "bare with me" instead of "bear with me."  Make sure you get those straight.  The proper way is "bear with me" because it's like saying "have forbearance with me."  Or something.  "Bare with me" is a weird way of saying let's get naked.  Not a good thing to say unintentionally.  :D