I’ve been in Virginia for almost 3 years and drove past the Seminary Road exit on I-395 at least a billion times. I never thought there was an actual seminary on Seminary Road.
Number 21 in the book 101 Things to Do Before You Die
My roommate in college considered doing one of those but never followed through with it. However, a very close friend of mine did one of these when she needed money in college. When she told me that, I thought she was CRAZY. I never considered doing that but I also didn’t need money bad enough to let someone test crazy pills and shots on me.
She said that the only lasting effect from the experiment was that she never has to wear deodorant. Even during the hottest days of the hottest summer, she doesn’t make a stink at all.
I’d say she rolled dice that were setup for her to lose and somehow she beat the system. I always figured these clinical trials were pretty much guaranteed to make your life stay the same or end up worse. Then again, that’s how Wolverine from the X-Men got his adamantium skeleton. I doubt anyone has come out with Spiderman-esque powers. But I could be wrong and I would be sooooo jealous even though my super powers rock!
What do you think? Do you know anyone who participated in one of these experiments and came out better than before?
Here’s a scan of the notes I took for my final exam today in my Electronic Darkroom class. I don’t think anyone on Earth has better handwriting than me!
I sent this to a friend during an email exchange we were having. We started out catching up a bit and the conversation evolved into what I did to my life and how I made it suck a lot less…
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I never really had a real conversation with myself until I came out here. I thought everything was so simple. I’d just get my degree, get my job, get my wife, make some little people, grow old, retire, die. Just like everyone else. But I see that plan sucks and I’m not going to do that anymore.
I don’t want a job where my goal is to retire. I don’t want a life where my goal is to have kids. I want to change the world in some way. I’m really into photography now and I want to express myself through that medium. I think this country is going in a bad direction and I want to leave so I’m leaving. I wish there wasn’t fluoride in our toothpaste and drinking water which makes people dumber. I wish people didn’t eat so much processed food and get cancer and other diseases. I wish people read more and watched less TV. I want to let everyone know how I feel. But I can’t just yet. I have to reach one person at a time.
Lately people have been coming to me telling me their job sucks. I’ve been pointing them in a direction to get them to do what they want to do. But I can’t make anyone do anything.
I hated my job so I saved money for a while then I stopped going. I don’t like the direction the country is heading so I’m leaving. I want to do photography so I go out in the freezing night and take beautiful night photos of the Washington Monument from different angles. I try to live the example that I want to express to others. But I guess it doesn’t help if no one knows. And even if they know, they have to care and to believe they can do it too.
From what I recall, you were just a wee bit smarter than everyone else I knew. I’m sure you will do amazing things as long as you focus. I was in that boat you were in too with friends shaping my views on things. It’s good that you realized it before it was too late and had a little Dr. Evil crawling around.
Also, I let my job sidetrack me and keep me from doing what I knew I should be doing. It was really hard for me to wake up way too early, go to work and be bored and feel worthless, come home tired, eat something, then attempt to be productive with the things I was interested in. That’s the trap we all get caught up in. Next thing you know, you’ll be 35 and angry at life because you never got to do what you knew you should have done. By then, you’ll think it’s too late and give up on life.
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I stopped there because I was getting too into it and wanted to see her response before I went on.
What do you think about what I said???
Has your life ever sucked and you did something to change it?
