I think I may have to start blogging when ever I encounter anything that causes me to wonder about the survival of common sense in this day and age. Here are a few I remember. I'm sure I'll add more soon.
Things that make common sense to me:
1. You should always have your lights on when driving at night on the highway. Especially when you have a dark car.
Personally, I think it should be a law that everyone always drive with their lights on. Seriously. This makes whole a lot of sense to me- who do you see first? The car with the lights or the car without? Day AND night.
2. Trains and buses should have seat belts.
Cars and planes have them. School buses (cough) have them. Why not regular trains and buses too? And even with commuter buses which might have them, who wears them? No one. Yet why "buckle up" because "it's the law" when the law doesn't apply to larger vehicles where people always get more jostled around during accidents? And who really enforces the use of seat belts on school buses? I don't know, maybe it's just me...?
3. Everything in moderation. This includes diet, exercise, and spending.
Diet - If you eat unhealthy, then your body is likely to reflect that. Doesn't it make sense to cut down on the processed stuff and hello, drink more water. Yes I know some people have health issues, but I also know that most Americans do not eat right. Whether it is the correct portion size, fresh food or water water water instead of sodas (gross) and fake juices... the solutions seem pretty simple to me. Eat wisely. Indulging isn't bad. It's the over indulging every day that is the issue.
Exercise - I admit I've only recently begun taking walks in the mornings and I just located my hand weights after they had been moved during the winter holidays. I admit the last real gym class I attended was in high school and the last real time I was "getting up and moving" was when I was involved in musicals in college and had to do minimal dance numbers as a cast member. I know I need to get moving. I know I need to get active. What I am talking about are the people, especially kids these days, who never go outside. Who'd rather go on the computer when they should be on that school softball team or watching TV instead of playing hoops in the driveway. I used to work as a nanny a few years ago, and it was hard work some days to get the kids outside! Dora the Explorer was on! There was some silly computer game they wanted go on instead. What happened to riding your bikes or playing hide and go seek??
Spending - I know a family that recently had to move and in the process, had to sell almost everything. This is partially because the wife had a habit of buying way too much junk and bought way too many things they didn't need. Now all of a sudden they were stuck trying to sell everything they could to make some money and so they wouldn't have to drag all that stuff with them... moving can get VERY expensive and just believe me, they had trouble getting rid of a TON of things instead of renting a larger truck or whatever to cart everything with them. I don't know everything about the couple, but I do know that if they didn't have all that extra stuff they needed to get rid of, they wouldn't have had such heart ache and issues with the whole moving process. So to close, having to much or doing to much of anything (even like overeating fruit) can be a bad thing. Moderation people. That's all I'm trying to say.
And so if you think I should make this a regular post, based off your comments I will make updates to this topic, otherwise, I just had to get these things off my chest. The car with the no lights incident was really bugging me. I mean really, doesn't it seem pretty stupid to drive at night with the lights off? On a highway!? And if you've had a moment where you thought, "man isn't that common sense?!" feel free to comment about it!
