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| How To Live In 2002 By Artashes Toumanov, TheWorldJournal.com Happy New Year! Only would it be a happy one? I guess the question now is whether we have to deal with all the virtuous and ropy things in the year to come. One more year of terror and blood, death and life, courage and cowardice, sickness and personal problems, recession and declining earnings reports, scientific opening and technical innovations, new companies and unemployment, online shopping and free gifts, betrayals and loyalty, beliefs and lies, war and piece, news and advertising, fun and stupidity, sports and overweight, real life and virtual reality. Would you like some? Shit, don't say "no" - you'll have that either way. Unexpectedly, first time in my life I decided on my own new year's resolution. You can call it "made in America". See, as I live in Canada I started realizing that my Russian habits and responses to social situations don't work here. They simply don't work. So I decided that I would lead an American (or Canadian) way of life in twenty-o-two: I will study hard (need to improve my GPA), I will find a real job (well, at least I'll try to); I will play sports and take care of myself. Why would I do that? Well, why the hell not? I will unemotionally consume all those things I talked about in the second paragraph of my article and will try to build "the civilization" - an environment where I HAVE time for myself. As I found out, this is practically the only way to live if you want to achieve something in your life. I think that if we start ignoring most of those things (in the second paragraph), we will start taking care of our families, friends and most importantly ourselves. We will finally begin creating a more pleasant environment, which will benefit everyone around us by the way. Wouldn't that be colossal? So, what I'm going to do is start working on this plan (I hope I'm motivated enough to implement it) and at the end of 2002 I will let you know how things went. In the meantime, you have a positive year. © January 5, 2002 |
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