This snail probably has as much purpose in life as you do. Depressed?
If you think about it, life is pretty pointless. I’m not talking about humans specifically but everything in general. Let’s consider a cheetah. It can run fast, it hunts pray and eats it and it reproduces until it dies. So in its life it will do four main things in general. Why does this species keep doing that? It seems like an infinite loop with no end.
Now let’s consider you. You will be born, probably have a nice childhood which is basically learning how to be “human”. Then you enter your schooling career which may last 20 years, it may last 10. Then you most likely get a job which funnily enough, like the cheetah hunting, involves you doing the same thing everyday for probably the next 10 years or so, probably more if you have an actual career and not some dead end job. Then after perhaps 30 more years you retire. Waste about 10-30 more years doing nothing except waiting to die and then, you die. In that time you’ll probably have less than 3 kids and they’ll do pretty much the same thing you did.
So why do cheetahs live? Well they’re pretty stupid as far as thinking outside the box however they are extraordinary creatures and out match humans in every way except the mind. Now why do humans keep on going? Its not like we’re doing it because some extra force told you to because as much as you might want to believe so, no one is telling you to do anything. Is it to have fun? Enjoy being with people? Get that rush of whatever it may be and feel on top of the world? You have probably answered yes to at least one of those. Pretty simple answers huh? Well we are pretty simple people aren’t we.
So let’s review. We only continue our lives for enjoyment, however we are in misery (majority of people) for the most part. We spend 30% of our lives learning skills and the other 70% using them. We save up money so we can stop working and wait to die. And we have been doing this for thousands of years. Not a whole lot to it really. We live. We learn. We work. We die. And somewhere in there, at any given moment, we’re happy.
This race was pretty awesome. It’s always nice to see Kevin Windham up there racing the rookies after all those years. What is dissapointing is when punks like Jason Lawrence think they have the right to ruin the chances of future stars of the sport like Ryan Dungey and (a few back) Ryan Villopoto. Everybody remembers when Jason Lawrence annoyed Villopoto during their lites days to the point in which Lawrence was stopping Villopoto on turns.
Well it seems Lawrence hasn’t changed. Apparently during practice he kept blocking and slowly Dungey so he couldn’t get any good lap times. It is easy to see Ryan Dungey won’t need to worry, he isn’t the one who was/is in jail. It is pretty sad for a non-points contender to try and affect the championship of a former rival. Not only did he get Ryan and himself last gate pick in the heats, he also started insulting Dungey himself calling him “mentally messed up”. Let’s go check the stats and we’ll see that Lawrence hasn’t won anything.
Not to worry though, Dungey make the most of his bad start coming in 2nd behind Windham in his heat. Villopoto got the top spot in his heat. The main was pretty exciting but the track looks horrible. One of the whoops section was one line, which is kind of annoying since you know there won’t be any passes there. Windham looked like he had the win after passing Davi Milsaps but eventually Villopoto and Dungey passed him too. Windham was now getting harassed by Villopoto and eventually gave it to him and within a lap Dungey was past him too.
Now Dungey and Villopoto were finally about to duel. Dungey was gonna start a charge until these two riders hit some lappers. Villopoto passed Kyle Chisholm but Chisholm wouldn’t move out of the way of Dungey even with blue flags being waved for at least a lap. Even though Dungey probably wouldn’t have passed Villopoto, he could have made a chance.
So in the end it was Villopoto, Dungy, Windham and Milsaps. For the record, Jason Lawrence was 10th. Now Villopoto and Dungey go into the next round tied for the lead and Josh Hill is now 10 points behind from the leaders.
Have you ever been awake at night, not able to get to sleep and thought to yourself: “Where the hell did I come from?” No, I’m not talking about evolution or how your origins are part German, I’m talking about where the Universe comes from. When you think about it, the Universe, or the world in our case is pretty perfect. It just works and it has been doing that for a very long time. The Universe works well too, perhaps too well.
I was thinking about this the other day – What if we aren’t real. That everything we know isn’t real but merely a simulation; similar to the latest James Cameron flick, Avatar (I’ve had this idea for a while). Maybe other people, even aliens, play as us. Maybe 1 year in our time is an hour for them? Imagine if this was just some test? Imagine if life was just some test and you can fail. Have you ever wondered why stereotypes exist, perhaps those are similar to the different types of characters we play in games such as Battlefield or Call of Duty.
If this was a test and we were aiming to pass what would be the fail mark? Would it be suicide, bankruptcy, drug addiction? Then again, what would be the pass mark? Perhaps it is having children, earning money or just being a good person. I was thinking of how I would be going so far. What would be my “Life GPA” if you will. I wasn’t sure how to judge it though. Would giving up your seat on the bus for an elderly person increase it? I guess it would be similar to karma.
I guess my thoughts (or even theory?) is somewhat related to Buddhism. They share similar ideas such as reincarnation and karma but and not surprisingly it is the only religion I deem to be not a total load of crap. So I guess we will never know our “score” until the end and I wonder if I’ll play another game. What’s your score?