“When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

-Futurama-

Natural selection doesn’t work once a species has the necessary intelligence to start making things idiot-proof

First, visit Darwin Awards website and peruse the fine examples of humanity at its wisest. Done? Good. Now think of all the stupid safety features you come across every day in your life. Besides... You don’t want to end up like them in a moment of temporary stupidity, do you?

However, that is not the question that is raised in this journal. The concern is what happens to the rest of us once that goal has been achieved. What kind of overprotective safeguards will be erected to ensure little Johnny doesnt kill himself following his GPS (walking) onto a highway and getting hit by a car. Laughing... Me too but in all reality its happened.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20006379-71.html

Here is a partial list of things that some people feel we need protecting from: smoking, salt, fats, cell phones, candy machines. You name something, anything that is bad for you and there is someone, somewhere, busy trying to save you from it.

At what moment do we pass the point of no return? When does progress towards an idiot proof future stop and will anyone stop it? More than likely, will we be all happily enjoying our plush ComfortCube not caring. Soon we will be told what to eat, what we can do and how to do it.

I'll leave you with this: when the contents are equal, the difference between a prison cell and a room is semantics.

Side note: I make a career out of being an occupational health and safety manager

Hey Folks,

Just wanted to update you all on the issue of acceptable fursuit photography on FA. Dragoneer has done a wonderful job of taking control of the situation and deserves a huge hug the next time anyone sees him.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3375014/
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3375014/
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/3375014/

I would like to thank my close friends for their support in bringing our mutual concerns forward. Without your help these issues would still exist.

Finally, I thank everyone that voiced their displeasure as well, this shows that as a community we can rally together to voice our concerns.

A simple step in the right direction can achieve great strides in the end.


Stay fluffy,

Keagan

Kissed any one of your Facebook friends? ---Yes
Been arrested? ---Yes
Kissed someone you didn't like? ---Yes
Slept in until 5 PM? ---Yes
Fallen asleep at work/school? ---Yes
Ran a red light? ---Yes
Been suspended from school? ---Yes
Experienced love at first sight? ---Yes
Totalled your car in an accident? ---Yes
Been fired from a job? ---Yes
Fired somebody? ---Yes
Sang karaoke? ---Yes
Pointed a gun at someone? ---Yes
Done something you told yourself you wouldn't? ---Yes
Laughed until something you were drinking came out your nose? ---Yes
Caught a snowflake on your tongue? ---Yes
Kissed in the rain? ---Yes
Had a close brush with death (your own)? ---Yes
Seen someone die? ---Yes
Played spin-the-bottle? ---Yes
Sang in the shower? ---Yes
Smoked a cigar? ---Yes
Sat on a rooftop? ---Yes
Taken pictures of yourself naked? ---Yes
Been pushed into a pool with all your clothes? ---Yes
Skipped school? ---Yes
Eaten a bug? ---Yes
Sleepwalked? --No
Walked a moonlit beach? ---Yes
Ridden a motorcycle? ---Yes
Dumped someone? ---Yes
Forgotten your anniversary? ---No
Lied to avoid a ticket? ---Yes
Ridden on a helicopter? ---Yes
Shaved your head? ---Yes
Blacked out from drinking? ---Yes
Played a prank on someone? --- Yes
Hit a home run? ---Yes
Felt like killing someone? ---Yes
Cross-dressed? ---Yes
Been falling-down drunk? ---Yes
Made your girlfriend/boyfriend cry? ---Yes
Eaten snake? ---Yes
Marched/Protested? ---Yes
Had Mexican jumping beans for pets? ---No
Puked on amusement ride? ---Yes
Seriously & intentionally boycotted something? ---Yes
Been in a band? --- Yes
Knitted? --Yes
Been on TV? ---Yes
Shot a gun? ---Yes
Skinny-dipped? ---Yes
Caused someone to need stitches? ---Yes
Ridden a surfboard? ---Yes
Drank straight from a liquor bottle? ---Yes
Had surgery? ---Yes
Streaked? ---Yes
Taken by ambulance to hospital? ---Yes
Passed out when not drinking? ---Yes
Peed on a bush? --- Yes
Donated Blood? ---Yes
Grabbed electric fence? ---Yes
Eaten alligator meat? ---Yes
Eaten cheesecake? ---Yes
Eaten kids' Halloween candy? ---Yes
Killed an animal when not hunting? ---Yes
Peed your pants in public? ---Yes
Written graffiti? ---Yes
Still love someone you shouldn't? ---No
Think about the future? ---Yes
Been in handcuffs? ---Yes
Believe in love? ---Yes
Sleep on a certain side of the bed? ---Yes

Today I was sitting at work trying to figure out how much I really have to offer as a person. I find more and more in today’s society we are busy copying other people and not being ourselves. Is it because we are afraid to really put ourselves out there...that people will judge us and what we do with our lives?

I think personally back to the people in life I tried to emulate. What makes them so fantastic and so amazing, that I would trade in the real me for another person? I then started to think about what makes me not so great and of course when you think about this the answers aren’t nice.

The answer to this from my perspective is a multitude of things. Lack of self worth, lack of acknowledgement of ones own strengths, lack of trust ones self and finally the biggest reason the wanting to be liked.

So here we sit at a cross road. Do we as society continue to be someone we are not or do we overcome these faults and be who we are supposed to be. What proof do we have that your or I are not amazing people.

I know personally I have had enough of trying to make everyone happy and in the long run and not being happy myself. Today I turn over a new leaf and consider the importance of just being me. I welcome anyone reading this to do the same. Embrace who you are. Go for it! After alls said and done no one remembers the Elvis impersonators name...Just the name Elvis.