Goals in Life

So it may take longer than a year to get through 52 blog posts.

To get started again, I decided to write about 2 goals I have in life. Keep in mind, these are not my end all be all, ultimate goals in life, just two things that I intend to accomplish before I die. Also keep in mind that these are very, very difficult goals in that they will both take a lifetime to achieve.

First goal.
I have a goal to never see the movie "Titanic". Like I said, not the loftiest of goals, but I have never seen the movie and never will. Why? Well, there are a few reasons.

The first reason, Leonardo DiCaprio. When Titanic came out, I hated Leonardo DiCaprio. I admit now, he is a good actor, but at the time I didn't like him. To understand why I didn't like him, you have to understand something about me. I don't like things that are trendy. It's not as bad now, but when I was younger, the more popular something was, the more I disliked it.

For example, while back to school shopping for eighth grade, I got a batman shirt. You know, the black shirt with the yellow batman symbol on it. I think Batman with Michael Keaton had just come out. I liked the shirt, but on the first day of school, everyone had the shirt. So I never wore it. Not once.

About that same time, UB40 re-did the song "Red, Red, Wine". I couldn't stand that song, mostly because everyone else liked it so much.

Which brings us back to Leo, a good actor, but all of the girls liked him, so of course, he bugged me.

The second reason has to do with Star Wars. For a long time, Star Wars held the title for all time box office sales. Due to a bunch of teenage girls, who were in no doubt in love with Leo, grrrrr, Titanic broke that record. People began comparing Titanic to Star Wars in greatness. That upset me.

The more people asked me if I had seen the movie, the more set I became in never seeing it. And I never will.

Second Goal
The second goal is even better. I will never run a marathon. Like the first goal, there are several reasons.

I don't like to run. I take that back. I love to run, if it involves a ball. A basketball, football, baseball, or anything that ends in ball. But take away the ball and the fun stops.

Don't get me wrong, I love to exercise. I even took up swimming once and went swimming twice a week, to get ready to foot ball. It felt great. There is just something about running that I don't like.

Like Titanic, I think it goes back to eighth grade.

In junior high, we had what the PE coaches called "Fun Runs". I hated them. Every Wednesday, as I rode the bus to school, I, and the rest of the eighth grade boys, wondered whether or not we would have to run 1.5 miles around the school. Its not that it was that far to run. I was in great shape and could easily complete the run in less than 10 minutes. What made me hate them was the PE coaches and the pleasure they got from our groans of pain as they announced the "Fun Runs".

To make it worse, junior high is an awkward time for a boy. After the "Fun Run" you had two options, shower or not shower. If you had PE near the beginning of the day and you didn't shower, you were sweaty all day. I had no clue when it came to girls but I did know that "sweaty" didn't help.

Or you could shower. For those of you who have never been in the boys locker room, the shower consists a large tiled area with two to three poles that each had a bunch of shower nozzles on it. The area was just big enough to fit 30 naked boys, but didn't leave much room to walk and left no room for privacy. None. I even seem to remember a boy having to do naked push ups in the shower because the hormones in his lower regions went a little haywire while in the shower. Needless to say, eighth grade is probably responsible for many an emotional scar.

So those are two of my goals. Like I said not lofty goals, but very difficult as they will take a lifetime to accomplish.