(It’s a “count-up” instead of a countdown and one number is no more dramatic than the other).
1. Invest in something destined to fail.
Like a new type of stapler, that leaves no holes. It’s magnetic. So tiny bits of metal shimmy between all the separate sheets of paper and the one on top is magnetized. This way they all stick together.
Or something more rational and useful but at the same time it must be destined to fail. Like a banana peeler. It’s a cool idea. After all, we have various fruit and vegetable peelers already. But when it comes down to it, a banana is really not that hard to peel. Unless you are a vegetable (not a mentally handicapped, or physically disabled joke. Imagine an actual vegetable trying to peel a banana).
It has to fail. I hate gambling, mainly because it’s really not that fun unless you are over the age of 50 and you save up money once a year to watch machines spin around and make noise. And, the casinos are sad sometimes. And cloudy because of the smoke. And some people sit there and spend money they do not have. Yes, less like gambling, this investment has to fail. I have to spend a little bit of money on my own terms before I have to open the dam and flood my funding into a pot for my wife and me. Plus, the investment must not yield anything in return. I don’t want money given to me in which I have to make another decision to determine its fate. Actually, I assume it will just go into the pot thing.
2. Try to make a solo album.
Without Cody. We have been the music duo for years (we are twins). What would it look like if both of us went our separate ways, but kept the same songs and made the exact same album? It’s been a small goal of mine in the past eight years to sell more albums than Cody.
What if we decided to play downtown in the city on the same day? What if we were just a block or so apart? Playing the same songs…People might question their perception. Is that not the premise of music and art?
3. I want to enroll in a writing workshop class.
I love critiquing terrible writing. It makes me feel good when I pick out the silly mistakes and incongruent thoughts of others. Mainly because I know I can write better than the people who would enlist in an online writing workshop course. (I’m talking about the free kind. The kind of “support group” you find by typing “writing workshop online free” in GOOGLE).
Oh to reinforce the concept that my ideas and motives are relevant, intuitive, and more profound than anything anyone can conceptualize makes me feel wise.
4. I don’t want to pick up my dirty clothes from my bedroom floor until I’m married.
Honestly, I’m just holding out on this one until the last possible minute.
5. Guest star on the hit TV series “Lost.”
I have more insight than some of the characters on the show. If they play the music while I’m acting I can probably anticipate danger better than they can. I also feel I could be a good influence on Ben. (He’s an actual character in the show. Very mischievous and manipulative).
Selfishness is meaningless. And God created us for relationships. Because he is relational. That’s the point of Jesus. So we can know God. The Holy Spirit moves in with us when we tie the knot with Him.
“He must become greater; I must become less.”
John 3:30
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