2ndclepunkbuddha

Many people in life, myself included, have missed out on opportunities.  Sometimes it was a scheduling conflict, a transportation issue, or a demand from another party that stopped us from doing something we really wanted to do.  Some of the thing we miss out on are trivial, some a serious, and many are somewhere in between.  A person who chronically does this is a person who does not wish to socialize and also criticize those who want to do social things.  Essentially, this is what the person "does for a living": In that they choose not to have a social life and rip apart the self esteem of others around them.  They find fault or reason as to how and why someone should not do something, it's a waste of time, it's ridiculous, it's boring, etc.  All or some of these observations may be true, but the ultimate problem is that the one who constantly does this is setting themselves up for a lifetime of regrets.  No one regrets that they took that crazy trip...

I always thought that bottled water was the biggest rip off of the 20th century, second only to indoor tanning beds.  Every person on earth would get it for free and suddenly we were paying for it, a tactic of marketing.  For the success of the marketers, I give them credit, but it was hardly an industry that was brand new or created just recently.  Of course the eco terrorists are still telling us how much additional plastic waste it creates, and I think that every time I take out the trash.  Since ancient times people have transported water from other geographic areas, it seems in the 90s sales all of a sudden quadrupled and we were sporting them everywhere we went, spring and purified tap water remain the best sellers in a billion dollar industry.  It remains the world's most precious resource.  And I gave it to him the last time I saw him. It was not a particularly strange day, not much if anything had happened of note.  The phone rang, he said h...