Life is Like a Cup of Coffee

I saw this a week ago stumbling, and put it on facebook, but I saw that we don't have a blog prompt yet so, I'll put this up.

I wish more people would see life in this perspective.

I can't say I do all the time, but I do most of the time.

Values/Morals/Principles

Sorry if listing bothers you but I don't feel like doing it in paragraph form, but I'll explain why in paragraph form.

I'll start off by listing how my parents wanted me to prioritize my life:

1. School
2. Family
3. Everything else

I somewhat agree with this model but I choose to do something else:

1. Family
2. Friends
3. School
4. Myself
5. Everything Else

The reason why my parents wanted me to live that way is because they didn't go to college and regret not being able to do so. I developed my list because I didn't agree with how they wanted me to organize me life. I decided my family meant everything to me because they raised me and they developed part of who I am today and that is why family is first. The reasons why my friends are second and not listed after school is because I can drop out of school and still have people that care about me and will help me out, but if I choose to leave my friends behind and concentrate on school then who will want to hang out with me when I'm done with school, and have nothing else to do either than work. School is 3rd because my family really stressed on me that education is important and I want to be able to have a good job to be able to support a family after I graduate. I consider my fraternity duties a combination of 2 and 3 that’s why I don't have a separate number for it. Then finally get to myself because I raised myself to think of others before I think of what I want. Raising myself sounds sort of weird, but I revolved my life around helping others and school before myself. But I will have to take care of necessities like showering, buying food, eating, etc. (things to live) when needed. Then everything else goes next based on priorities.

Values can be seen of how you live your life, and that’s why I did above but values can also be read of what morals/principles you have. So my morals/principles will be in list form again, but these are not in any specific order:

1. Try to never hurt a female physically or mentally on purpose
• Unless she is attacking me, then restraining is ok.
2. Help people when possible
• Even Strangers
3. Every day I should better myself or someone else, if not both
• If neither is complete, then it was a waste of a day
• Sad day if that happens...
4. Treat others how I want to be treated
• Self explanatory
5. Don't judge people based off first impression
• The first impression might not be their true selves.
6. Live Honestly
• It's easier to live truthfully instead of a lie because if you lie your whole life it, then your life is going to be a lie. 

Live Honestly

Who are you & how do you want to change the world?

Soon you will all get to know me as Mike Tran. I was born and raised in Columbus area. When I was in high school I did track and cross country, but now that I'm in college I cut back a lot on the running and I'm focusing on lifting weights because I didn't want to be scrawny anymore. I enjoy play sports, no matter what it is, but I love playing Ultimate Frisbee. Other hobbies include: playing cards (Euchre specifically), video games, and hanging out with friends (not just Fraternity brothers). I don't want to tell you what I think I am like, I think I'm honest, loyal or whatever. I want people to try to get to know me if they want to and not judge me based on first impressions, that is why I leave my facebook profile open for everyone to see photos and all. I mean if there is a person who is going to judge me by my photos or what my wall says and doesn't want to get to know me, that is fine. I don't try to judge people based on first impressions because I don't want to be judged like that either. I love being sporadic and being around sporadic people because whenever we get bored we always come up with ideas to entertain ourselves/others... some of them are crazy but, that is okay by me.

I made a quote one night when everything was against me and I was wondering what I could do because I felt like I had nothing to do in life. Here is the quote:


"I found a reason to live. It's not to be someone famous like a president, a movie star, or to invent something that will change the world. I’m here to change other peoples lives. I live life for that reason alone. Because someday I will save someone’s life, and in turn they will save another."

I have been living by that quote for nearly three years now. It seems like it would have been a quote from a movie like Pay it Forward, but I honestly have never watched the movie before. I guess that is why I'm really sporadic now because I want to enjoy life everyday and help out others whenever I can. That is why I do random things like the interesting fact that Patty said about me was that I helped strangers fixed their belts on their car. Granted it's not hard to do but they didn't have the right tools and knowledge of how to do it. I know I can't help everyone out but I will try my best to help the people that are close to me and the people that are need of some help. Like in the movie, I figure it will be somewhat of a domino effect. Which would be freaking amazing. Then the world would be a nicer place. I guess I'm changing the world one person at a time.

Here is a video that might describe how I feel about what we can do:



We can be that small group guys. We can change the world.