Selflessly Selfish

I figured it out. People who claim to be selfless are lying. Selfishness is what keeps the world going. As wonderful as it may seem to have children (something I disagree with), parents will often do everything in their power to make a child’s life miserable.
Keeping a child happy is not an easy task, but when one has a child, they are automatically burdened to keeping this child clean, fed, and sleeping normally.
I feel that people who rush into marriage, and make it their life’s objective to get married and have children often find themselves trapped because of the commitment that people fall into.
There are several issues in this action of rushing into marriage, or relationships for that matter. When someone decides to date someone, the beginning is great! There is not a flaw in the world with the other person, everything is new and exciting, and then you get to know the other person.
Getting to know someone is one of the most interesting things in the world, I get to know myself everyday. I realize my strengths, weaknesses, fears and ambitions. The older I get, the more I realize that nothing scares me except commitment itself. I am committed to myself. I am selfish. This is not a bad thing, selfish has a negative connotation, but if you look for synonyms for “selfish” you will find “self centered”, “self-seeking”, “self-interested”, “egotistical”, and “egotistic.”
Yes! I want to take care of myself. In this world, nobody is going to do you any favors. If I do something and it benefits somebody else, I don’t want to be thanked, I don’t want recognition, I wasn’t trying to get anything out of it, I was merely seeking an objective. As funny as it may sound, I find myself making more people happy by making myself happy.
It was easier for me to treat my friends to something because I want to do that “something.” I don’t see this as wasteful, because it is something I want to do, I am not getting conned into doing something. I am voluntarily spending my time/money/ effort on pleasing myself; the fact that my friends are present is a mere casualty of my selfish efforts.
As much as I don’t care about what other people think about me, I do things that seem selfless, generous and even outright insane, because it makes my selfish actions look that much more socially acceptable.
Children Are Selfish, it’s not their Fault
Nobody chooses to be born, nevertheless, once we make the journey out of the birth canal; we are now dependent on other people for a long time until we can wipe our own ass, buy food and dress ourselves. Even then, those are utter basic necessities for our day-to-day lives that are taken for granted when we are older.
A baby cries when he or she is hungry, tired or needs their diaper to be changed. Parents who show disgust at the basic daily “chores” of taking care of a child are victims of their own actions. The responsibility of taking care of a child are so huge that parents don’t actually realize the vastness of the task until they are in too deep, so to speak.
Children are not responsible beings, and why should they be? Parental units need to display a sense of altruism towards their children whether they like it or not. If a parent does something that society deems bad parenting the parent could be deemed unsuited for parenting.
Parents need to be the role models for their children, which makes life so complicated, balancing everything in order to stay under the radar, yet effective. I feel like I have achieved this balance, yet I am not satisfied. Having said that, I do not want children; I just want to be happy by doing what I need to do in order to be successful in everything.
Be Proud, but don’t Flaunt it
As mentioned above, staying under the radar while being successful is key. If you start showing off your success, people begin to suspect something is up, but if you stay low-key and keep a close circle of friends who you can trust, and not have to ever worry about. It is all too often you hear about close friends who ruined another close friend’s life by stabbing them in the back.
If you are going to drive a Ferrari, know what the consequences will be. Be prepared to prove that your Ferrari is yours and not the proof of some illegal activity that will surely land you in jail or even worse, dead.
Remember that if you are generous, people will question your motives. That’s why everyone should live within his or her means not go into debt, pay bills on time, and everything will be OK.
There is nothing for wanting the “finer things in life,” but the price you pay for those things will sometimes come back and haunt you. People are always trying to get that nice watch, nice car, mansion in Beverly Hills, etc.
How it Ends
The world is all supply and demand that forces people to do things. Hot girls are limited in supply so they have a higher price, the healthier food is more expensive; thus taking care of yourself by spending money is selfish; there is nothing wrong with that.

The Lakers Don't get Bailed Out

Yesterday the Los Angeles Lakers did not care about anything work related, sure they showed up, put on their purple jerseys, laced up their shoes and stepped foot onto the court at the Toyota Center in Houston; but that was it.

The Lakers played as is it was not the playoffs, a sin that still is not excusable in a regular season game; yet far more reprehensible when it comes to pro basketball games in May. The lackluster approach is kind of like the approach that the government’s stress tests showed: nobody really cared too much.

The government cheated on this test by helping each one of the student aka banks in their efforts to pass these tests. In the event that a bank was not sufficiently capitalized to withstand financial panics, make sure that enough capital is raised, and last week the Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley issued $15 billion in common stock and bonds in order to close the potential gaps.

The problem with the teacher’s help here is that the students do not learn anything from these actions, they now know that someone will always give them a hand even at the brink of failure, and better yet a real second chance after a complete failure.

As the Lakers played with no sense of urgency, or with the prospect of taking a dominating 3-1 series lead over the Houston Rockets; the banks teetered through the stress tests with flying colors. Sounds like a paradox? Well, it is.

When it comes to the playoffs, it is win or go home. In this economic era, the private investors have the same option to win or go home, whereas the big banks have only one choice: to win.
Lakers head coach, Phil Jackson, said, “We're a little bit of a team that needs to have sometimes a spark put in us to play,” The Lakers lacked a sense of the necessity to win this game, because it was not absolutely necessary! The Lakers will show up on Tuesday night, and play like the game has some importance, and they will prevail in the series.

Makes you wonder how much more the economy can prosper if the government let’s the banks be like the Lakers were yesterday, let them fail, just for a day and then see them come back stronger than ever.

The Performance of Performance Enhancing

When things are going badly around you, that is when you start looking for people to blame, for example, Bernie Madoff was exposed during the worst economic times seen in most people's lives.

Today, Manny Ramirez of the Los Angeles Dodgers was suspended for 50 games for violating the league's drug policy. According to Manny's agent, Scott Boras, the substance was not steroids, it was a substance that was in a medication that was prescribed by a doctor.

It sucks, but you know what? Manny should have known.

Is it a coincidence that this happened a day after the Dodgers broke the record for most home wins to start a season? Probably not. In sports, when things can't any get better, they usually don't. This has occurred on several occasions from the 2004 Laker "dream team" whose season ended in a nightmare in Detroit all the way to Mike Tyson getting KOed by Buster Douglas in 1990, and many other times throughout history.

Why is it that when you are at the top, you have nowhere to go but down, and when you are at the very bottom, as I wrote last night, you have nowhere to go but up.

Finding equilibrium is the key to everything. Consistency toward winning, proving yourself day after day, and ultimately you will get to the top, but the competition should be as tight as possible to keep you honest.

Mr. Cuban has a point...

When you hit rock bottom, you have nowhere to go but up.




http://blogmaverick.com/2009/05/06/the-problem-with-the-stock-market/

Time to make WEE

Ever wonder what people are thinking by blogging? Is it self gratification? Is it to pass time because you are bored? Or is it to publish something to use as a future reference. I recently read a paper written by a talented senior at USC, and in the paper, one of the works cited numerous times was her blog.

This was such a revolutionary idea, that I had to blog about it. There is a lot of opportunity out there, and I would like everyone to know that I will be the name in the ranks of billionaires. Just trust me, follow me on Twitter, Facebook me, and blog about me.

Just do it. Nike.