Thursday, October 12, 2006

"This is Your Life, Are You Who You Wanna Be?"

This has to be one of my favorite lyrical quotes from This is Your Life-by Switchfoot. It asks that question that probably every person has asked himself at least once in his lifetime. There are millions of things we do in a lifetime, but the real question is, are you who you want to be?

There are so many questions we can ask ourselves, and I feel like taking the time to put some of them on a blog, rather than a load of bull...ogna, yep. Bullllllogna; it's a new kind of word. So!

When you're with your friends, are your friends the ones to bring you closer to God or ones that will lead you astray with bad examples, immorality, or carelessness?
When you criticize someone at their faults, do you tell them their faults to hopefully let them realize their faults and work with them? Or do you want to tell them their faults just because you can or to cause argument?
When you tell someone about his faults that he cant work with (let's say he has a bad hair day or old clothes and he cant get a haircut or buy new clothes; some bad examples), why do you mention it? Do you want pleasure at feeling better than someone else?
When you interrupt someone, do you interrupt him for something important, or just because you want to get your say quickly before the subject might die?
When you talk about someone...what do you talk about with them? Do you talk edifying things, or are you making known this person's faults? Worse yet, are you making up or exaggerating the faults of the person?
When you argue with someone, what are you arguing for? Do you argue for your point only, or do you try to slander the person you're arguing while trying to prove your point?
When someone makes a mistake and it's obvious he's embarrassed about it, do you go and help him? Or do you stand there watching, pointing, and laughing?
When you go to Mass, what do you do? Are you contemplating on God and readying yourself for the Sacrifice or are you nudging or talking to your best buddy?
Do you think of others whenever doing something, say, when they need help, do you offer help?
Are you one to go talk to someone who has no one to talk to?
Do you share all your belongings? Or do you hold on to them dearly and only share them if that person does something for you in return?
Do you yell at someone for small reasons?
Do you hold grudges?
Do you look at the ups or downs of a person?
Do you make visitors feel welcome or just introduce them to this and that and walk away?
When--

So, my mind has completely gone blank now. I think this is satisfactory, though....Hopefully, all you people in desperate need to ask yourselves these questions!!! Anyways, some of these questions can have loopholes to them or, you know...ways to get out of it. Such as sarcasm :-D, but only when the other person takes it as a joke, not as an insult....

Damien

Ahh, and for the person(s) who made a new profile under my name and picture, I must ask you to please stop...

16 comments:

Kat said...

Are you serious? Someone's making profiles of people and using their pic....what a jerk. (And NO! It's not me, if that's what you're thinking) Great post, Damien...one question, though: Are we supposed to answer these questions?

sHANNON said...

Hahaha...No Kat his plan is to try and see our faults by posting all those questions. ;-) Anyways great post Damien!

Blitzkrieg said...

"A jerk is someone who cares for no one (mostly) all the time. Jerks think about no one other than themselves; they're actually really easy to spot"

"Jerks never apologize for anything, too. They'll do the wrongestest thing in the whole, wide world and never apologize."

I'm sorry if I upset you, I will not post as you again.

Dameo said...

Haha, thanks for the comments. And thanks for explaining things for me Shannon, you hit it right on the spot (but in no way trying to force it on you guys, sheesh, where'd you get that idea???) ;-)

Haha, and Reed...I expected it to be you. No. I knew it was you, that's why I asked so nicely, because I knew you're not a jerk...You just dont speckin things as much as we do. :-D But you didnt upset me, no worries about that.

sHANNON said...

Really??? I got it right!?! Wow....did I win anything??? I hope so! I worked hard to try and figure that question thing out.....all those questions...Its hard. So did I win something??? ;-)
Anways great post Damien...(something tells me I already said that....:-|)

Dameo said...

Of course you won Shannon! You won that good feeling in your heart where you know you've done something good and you're proud of yourself for it. Congratulations! You've won that feeling!

Jeeps said...

"Dear Strong Bad, do you play the guitar?"

"Dear Strong Bad, what about people who make useless posts on their blogs?"

Prez said...

Naps are good.

Dameo said...

Wow...naps ARE good!!! Thanks, Steph!!! :-D

It's sad...I obviously didnt reach out to JP, since he oh so strongly believes this post is useless...

Kat said...

this post is useles?....hmmmmm, don't know if I agree...wait, what is this post about again...?

Kat said...

useless*

Dameo said...

Oh, you know, ways to help each of us become a better person...nothing much ;-)

Kat said...

Ahhh.....I see!! You're so thoughtful...making a post that'll help us all become better people :-P

Dameo said...

I know, I know. No need to say that again, but it would be much appreciated if anybody did. :-D

Prez said...

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David said...

did you come up with all those questions on your own? you read my mind with some of them. they give me a lot to think about. thank you.