Assignment 19 Thomas Werner

“You’ve spent an infinity years not being born yet and you will spend another infinity years being dead.

Finish your cereal and go outside.” –K. Steele from ‘Stress’ (Ice T’s favorite comic)

This is something that really stuck with me. It sort of puts life into perspective. It shows how even though it seems we have a lot of time to do things we want to (and should) do, but when put in the context that that ‘time’ is sandwiched between two infinities it’s really not that much.  So we gotta ‘finish our cereal and go outside.’ I’m not really sure why, but the way that’s said instills something in me. Sort of like, ‘come on now, turn off Netflix and go climb a tree. Get something done.’ Ever since I read that, I’ve pretty much stopped playing video games altogether, and put my youtube, Netflix. Reddit, and twitter apps into a folder labelled “You can find something better to do.” I do have to say, it’s had quite a positive impact.