I’m moving some of the “notes” that I liked from the past six years on Facebook to here…  This one was one of my more recent favorites:

So I was thinking about how our phones and our cars and our computers come with all sorts of information already loaded into them.  Machines know that there are all kinds of hard and fast rules that they just have to follow…

What I’m thinking is someone needs to create a chip that goes into the human brain…there are certain fundamental truths that would make life sooooooo much easier if our brains accepted them as fact and did not attempt to deviate from those rules.

We want other people to learn from our mistakes… but what if we could have something implanted so we never actually had to make those mistakes at all?  What if we just understood important fundamental things from birth… and didn’t have to be the 10 billionth person to learn the same thing?!?! And, since we KNOW it to be true… we don’t fight against it.  Wouldn’t that be great?

So, just a few of the things I think should be IMPLANTED in everyone:

• There are few things that cause more stress than prevarication and procrastination.  Avoid both.
• Your body is a machine.  It needs fuel and regular maintenance to work properly.  Overfilling will damage.  Toxic chemicals will damage.  Inactivity will damage.
• Everyone talks behind other people’s backs. It’s not personal and it doesn’t matter.  People need to talk about their problems.  You are talking behind other people’s backs… they’re talking behind yours.
• If you’re REALLY bothered by the above, look closely at yourself.  If it’s not true, stop being bothered.  It doesn’t matter.  If it IS true, and it bothers you… only you can fix it.
• Figure out who’s in charge and make sure that they like you.  Your life will be so much easier if people who have some control over your livelihood want to assist you.
• Very rarely are things “personal.”  If someone doesn’t ask you to dinner, “tag” you on facebook, tell you about an event… it’s not because they’re purposely trying to exclude you.  People are basically self centered… it wasn’t about you.  They just didn’t think about it.  Don’t stew about it.
• School really does build on itself.  Pay attention when you’re learning to find the lowest common denominator and how to write a complete sentence.  It will all matter later… and keep mattering forever.
• Do not ever give or lend money to friends.  No matter how you do it, no matter if you never expect to get it back or not, it changes the dynamic of the friendship forever… and it’s never good.
• Do not repeat mistakes.
• Do not buy something on credit without knowing exactly how/when you will be able to pay it back.  Have a plan.
• Don’t quit a job until you have another one.
• Anything you put in writing or on the Internet is there forever.  People who you don’t know will see it.  Your enemies will see it.  Your friends will see it.  It’s forever.

Those aren’t all inclusive… but I think those are the ones that should be included in the first app for things we all should know…

I’m sure you can think of things that should be included on the next updates.  🙂