It’s been awhile since I’ve actually been active on my blog for a period of more than a couple days in a long time, in the meantime, I feel like I’ve alienated many of my fellow bloggers and for that I’m sorry.
It was never my intention to do that, but I did. I just lost interest in so many things, and unfortunately, blogging was one of them.
I feel like I’m stuck in the middle, not brainwashed, but just stuck. This video reminds me of what I felt like just a few years ago. Where has it gone?
I was reading something a while back, maybe it was Kiplinger’s, maybe it was a website, I dunno, but I had these 2 links book marked in my drafts folder. I thought it’s a couple neat ways to “invest,” so I thought I’d share.
The first is kiva.org, where you can support entrepeneur’s all over the world, generally in places where starting your own business would be a little harder without some extra help. I’m a little skeptical, but it seems like a good idea.
The second is donorschoose.org, where you can find schools in lower income areas that need funds for a particular project.
Some pretty neat ideas in my opinion.
Life the past months has been rocky at best. Unhappy with so many things, my unrealistic belief that work and life is supposed to be FUN proven extremely mistaken. Life has taken a toll on my enthusiasm. Unenthused, detached from everything and almost everyone. No interest in computers, financials, hobbies…My life is/was just…Bleh. I could care less what happened to myself, and to some degree others, although if anything, others were the only people that, at times, lifted me out of gloom for brief moments. I’ve had a few of those “what purpose do I have on this earth” moments, which usually results in some inspiration to do something for the greater good of mankind, but in my case ended with, “who cares.”
Financially, I was bringing in income that I had made while working in college…definitely, low enough to categorize me pretty close to the bottom tier on the national income meter. But to be honest, I just did not care. I still don’t really. But I’ve found that my fundamental money habits helped me save and grow my current income regardless of my fairly whatever attitude about my savings. I didn’t go on binge spending runs. I didn’t place my money in reckless investments. I just did the samethings I used to do when I did care, pay my bills, put money in more conservative investment vehicles, sell stocks since my tax rates would be lower. I just didn’t look at my net worth…And to be honest, it feels kind of good. Not caring…not caring about money.
But I want to get out of this funk. The enthusiasm I had for life just a few years ago is gone, and I don’t know why. Mid life crisis? Doubtful. Medical depression? Meh, possible, but my belief is there’s something more. Why can’t I excite myself like before? I’m not interested in things like technology, blogging, or finances, and I can’t figure out why. I’m very confused about life in general, and I really don’t know why. I have no idea why I feel the way I do, and I have no idea how I will figure it out.
This is not a call for help in anyway, because I’m still living my life. And here’s the weird part, it’s not like I’m completely undriven to do anything, I still work. I still do daily things. I just don’t care about anything that’s not a necessity. It’s as if I’m living my life with the gas tank at E…but the car just won’t run out of gas. In someways I guess that’s nice today since gas is so damn expensive. I’m going to survive. There are a lot of people in worse positions than I am. Enough ranting for me today…So how are you doing?
So I’m thinking of getting one of these:
Gets equivalent of 100MPG, costs approx. $27k for the all electric version. Looks like a tadpole.
Just read this article on Newsweek, and I know Newsweek has gotten some press about being leftist. I don’t care, fact is, it took guts for McClellan to stand up against his former boss. Sure, he’s gonna make a lot of cash, but hey, he wrote up on a topic that is a hot one for many across the nation and the world.
Let me just present this simple, logical argument:
Is it true that the US Administration did not find the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that they had expected? This being one, if not the only, MAIN argument for going to war against Iraq.
If NO, then someone should be held accountable–regardless if the information was not accurate or clear on WMDs to begin with.
Everything in life has accountability. If the information was wrong, and the administration made a mistake in going to war, then the administration should reassess, and make it very clear where, how and why there was this mistake..
Lives have been lost while the economy is collapsing. There’s enough blame to go around two fold, but I still don’t see anyone in the Bush administration except for McClellan standing up and saying, “I was wrong.”
Climbing Gas Prices the Best Thing to Happen in a Long Time
Yup. I’m convinced that the climbing prices of everything in the US is a good thing. Finally people are starting to realize that wasting money and buying bigger TVs, bigger cars, bigger houses is BAD. It is very unfortunate for those who are suffering, and in no way am I being insensitive to those that are, but look, everyday in life we faces challenges that require us to make choices, some right some bad. In the end we all face consequences, and this is just that. I hope that these lessons teach a lesson that will be learned and remembered for a long time, just as those bad decisions in my life have taught me.
It’s also finally allowing us to focus not only on those who have just recently started to feel the burden of increasing costs, but recognizing those that have been facing tough times for much longer than the current jump in costs. I have some ideas on how we can tackle the rising costs of everything, just like probably everyone else, in the meantime though, I hope everyone comes out a little better in the end.
Posted in General on June 20, 2008