Pass with Caution

I, like many students my age consider myself to be quite youthful; I am still living out my years as a child, as a teen, as a young adult. When adults comment on people like us, they often remark how "full of youthful vigour" we are, and how much we have to look forward to, how much we have ahead of us, and how much we have to yearn for. In a way, they are right. I'm really not that old, I still have years of education to complete, and after that, I have a career to begin, a family to start and endless more important decisions to make.

I have realized however, that, no matter how young and youthful you might think you are, windows of possibility are closing all the time. Each day marks another opportunity missed, an experience never to be felt but in another life, a person never to be met. And that stupid saying that they put at the end of cheesy novels that goes, "as one chapter of your life closes, another is just beginning", turns out to be very true.

Take myself for example. Yes, I am young, and I have very much to look forward to. I have yet to truly discover God, or find true love, yet at the same time, I have been passed over in the lottery of childhood sweethearts. It is, I believe for example, too late for me to pick up a sport and learn it to a competitive level. It is too late for me to pick up an instrument and master it, it is too late to realize that I should have kept in touch with my childhood friends so I could look back in thirty years and say "Remember we were yay-high to a grasshopper?"

Ok so, I wouldn't actually say that but you get my point. Not be a totally pessimist but that is what I find, is that the older you get, the more you realize what you could have done, what you could have made out of your life, the people you could have met and the things you could have achieved. Of course to totally adapt an attitude of having missed the boat would be to simply miss more opportunities that are still open to you.

Just had to say that... you know?

kamster

Flexible Insurance

You know that saying "you should always be prepared for a rainy day?" That is usually implying that one should save up money and resources for when the economy suffers a downturn, or some other similar misfortune. I believe, however, that extrapolating this saying to include insuring against misfortunes that you know may happen at least once in your lifetime (like the theft of your keys). That's where Club Care Insurance comes in.

The Camping and Caravanning Club Insurance company really knows what they're talking about when they talk about insurance. And because they specialize in camping and caravanning, they offer insurance for things that you normally would not be able to obtain insurance for (great if you're an avid camper or outdoors man), like your motor home, scooter, boat and even tent!

What's even better, each different insurance policy is specially designed to maximize your return and get the goods back in your hands. Take key insurance for example: Club Care Insurance ensures that your lost keys will get back to you. They even offer an incentive for people to return your lost keys to you! And of course they offer all the extras too: locksmith fees, reprogramming of immobilisers and a car or transport in the case you are stranded without your keys.

All in all, Caravan Insurance is a great place to purchase insurance for your caravanning and camping equipment.

kamster

September Blues

Classes have started up again everywhere. In elementary, middle and high schools, students are returning to classrooms as they exchange manhunt in the park for laps around the field, Breaking Dawn for Science Power 10, and Warcraft III for MathCircus 4. The annual return to classes is definitely a hectic time of year, perfect for advertisers looking to make an extra money. Indeed, I've noticed some out of the ordinary back-to-school ads this season, such as:

"It's back to school for the kids, so stock up on Canadian Cheese!"

... -.-"

It just reminds me that today's world truly has become so commercialized, so money-driven and that the concept of materialism is the driving force behind many a corporation's PR team. The best thing we can do is... to not shop when you're hungry.

But now that school is back in session, we do have to do some back to school shopping. For university students and some fortunate highschoolers, a brand-spanking new laptop will be in order, and for the rest of us, binders, textbooks, notebooks, lined paper, rules, graphing calculators ($129.99? WTF?), protractors... the list goes on. For me I have to get my own textbooks, many of which aren't cheap. But it's the cost of an education here in Canada, I guess.

Anyways I'm hoping to get back to my pre-summer blogging schedule (Wow I am such a lamer) as soon as I can, although this year I'm going to have to really buckle down. If I don't succeed massively this year, my dreams of a UBC education are spiraling down the drain. I'm sure lots of you guys can attest to that as well ;D

kamster