Your #2 Priority Continued

I thought I would touch on this a bit more, the question of what we do besides working, relaxing, surviving, and buying. If busy work, purchases, and pointless relaxation were eliminated, what would be left of our lives? And for most people the answer is Nothing. That is all their life consists of.

Try out this little homework assignment. This coming Saturday, do not do any school work. Don't go to work. Don't go to sports practice. Hopefully schedule the day so none of this is expected of you so that you can do your experiment without being punished for it.
Don't spend the day chilling out and being passive, either. Don't watch any TV or movies or internet videos or anything. Don't read a book. Don't play Call of Duty. Don't even think about going onto Facebook. Don't accept any calls or texts on your phone; if you need to talk to someone, you make the call, not them. Don't lounge around with an iPod. For most of us, we should just leave the house completely, because our house harbors all hours of our inactivity. This day is supposed to be about doing something.
Wake up early and lay on your roof to watch the sun come up. Cook breakfast for everyone in the house. Grab some money to eat out (or, Godforbid, pack your own lunch!) Go learn how to grow weed or brew beer. Make a message or a design and print it on 100 T-shirts to pass out to the first 100 people you see at school. Go tag a building with spray paint. Make hundreds of copies of a mix CD to pass out. Give away everything you own and spend the day building your arsenal of essential materials by searching through dumpsters. Build a fort in the woods Climb a tree. Explore areas of your neighborhood you've never seen. Only ride a bike the whole day. Get some friends together and start a flash mob at the mall. Bring posters of animal factory-farms and stand outside restaurants, show pictures of sweatshops to people going in and out of clothing stores and pictures of conflict diamonds outside the jewelry stores. Swim in a lake that you're not supposed to. Have sex. Make napalm (you just put Styrofoam into gasoline and it's done.) Start a garden in your backyard. Start a garden in someone else's yard. Cook a meal and give it to a homeless person, then trade clothes. Make snow angels in a field. Do cartwheels down a hill. Run naked through the woods. Smash a computer. Burn money, or give it to a stranger, or buy a delicious meal. Blow up a car. Sabotage the utilities of a rival's house or a business you don't like. Get high and go swimming. Buy a bulk-order of glow sticks and pass them out at a rave.
I'm serious. Do something this coming Saturday.
I know you're thinking, "Oh yeah, that'd be so cool if I did that..."
Stop thinking about it and just do it. Do something amazing this coming Saturday and tell everyone about it.

Seriously.

Do it.

I double-dog dare you.

I'm not even kidding.

Do something to feel alive.