This I Beleive

I didn't wash my car last month
I read an essay about how this guy did not wash  his car last month and how he won't do it next month because it does not pass his rocking chair test.  The way the test works is that when he's an old man looking back to what he was about to do, would he regret it?  Washing the car did not pass the rocking chair test, therefore he did not wash his car.  This is an interesting philosophy of life.  I both agree and disagree with his philosophy.  It is important to do what makes you happy but at the same time, washing your car, dusting, and overall boring things need to be done.  It only takes half an hour, so it isn't that much time to give up.

A dog's life
This essay was about how a young boy learned how to be responsible by getting a dog.  When the boy was ten years old he convinced his mom to let him get a dog.  It was a beagle and his name was Buster.  Buster and the boy came to be great friends.  The boy walked Buster twice a day, petted him, played with him, bathed him, and loved him.  Buster taught the boy how to be responsible at a young age.  Now that the boy has grown up, he believes that every child should have a dog because it teaches them responsibility.  Buster also did not have a care in the world and didn't let anything bother him.  Buster taught the main character not only how to be responsible, but how to live life.

Be cool to the pizza delivery dude
In this essay, a woman explains the four philosophies she has pertaining to the pizza delivery dude.  Those four principles are humility/forgiveness, empathy, honor/honest work, and equality.  These are all good principles to live by.  She basically is saying that you shouldn't flip off the pizza delivery dude in traffic or make fun of him behind his back.  He is an honest dude trying to make a few extra bucks to live by.  Everybody has one of those jobs eventually. There was a good metaphor and it was "in the big pizza wheel of life, sometimes you’re the hot bubbly cheese and sometimes you’re the burnt crust. It’s good to remember the fickle spinning of that wheel."