25 Signs that You Don’t Like Winter At All

This is for all those people who do not like winter at all, the many reasons that we can all understand with all the freezing temperatures, snowfall and well, you know the rest.

Here are 25 signs that we don’t like it at all:

1. We absolutely detest shoveling snow off our walkways and driveways

2. Cleaning the snow off the car is a problem

3. Snow, slush and salty roads lead to dirty floors, and disgusting residue that is absolutely a big task to clean and we go crazy over it — OCD and very super clean people know it especially.

4. Seeing the exterior of cars all filled with dirty slushy, saltiness – the interior, the car matts and carpet filled with disgusting winter stuff.

5. Absolutely dislike going grocery or any other type of shopping, taking bags to the car, filling up the car, taking it home, unloading in the freezing cold. Those people who walk to home too with shopping bags in their hands. Its absolutely a headache. You not only have to watch out for the bags, but you have to look on the ground to make sure you don’t slip and slide and fall all over the place.

6. Having 20 pounds of stuff on you to keep you warm. Jackets, coats, long underwear, scarfs, hats, mitts, gloves, boots, sweaters, all these uncomfortable things of winter time. Taking 10 minutes to put everything on.

7. Driving in the freezing cold when the heat in the car is on full blast.

8. having to go to a party or function dressed nicely underneath and you are freezing and sometimes you opt out of going places because you don’t want to leave your warm house.

9. Having to go to work or school in this season. Working outside in this weather and those who work in the transport industry hauling products, driving in these terrible snowy white out conditions.

10. When it gets so dark so quickly, you just want to be in bed by 7 or 8pm thinking and feeling like it is midnight already.

11. heading to the mall, other stores, restaurants, coffee shops and you walk in and the floors are like a sea of white salt and dirt from the parking lot from tires, car fumes, and well the dirt from the cement and asphalt.

12. just when you thought, you had finished shoveling or snow blowing, another 30 cm’s of snow falls the next day. You begin cursing and all the bad words start coming out. just like the line from a gangster movie (Just as I wanted to go out, they pull me back in).

13. When there is freezing rain and snow which makes it so much harder to walk and the risk of falling down on your butt is pretty high.

14. sharing the frustration and creating Hate Winter Clubs on social media is a valid thing to do and seeing that others share the same frustrations is so understandable. I created The I Hate Winter Club page on Facebook just for these points.

15. When sharing I hate winter memes and funny posts make things a little better for us who detest this season with a passion.

17. When you have to use a lot of windshield washer fluid to get rid of salt, grime, snow, and all that crap from the roads and other cars that splash all that on your windshield from driving.

18. Having to change your tires to snow tires.

19. having snow brushes and squeegees in your car.

20. When you put outdoor plans on hold for 5 to 6 months of the year.

21. When you can’t wait until March comes to welcome spring.

22. When you see others enjoying winter. saying in your mind “Are you crazy? You like this weather?” What is so good about it? Nothing can convince winter haters to start liking winter. It is not happening.

23. When you never participate in any Winter sports or activities. Ain’t nobody got time for that.

24. When flu/cold/cough season begins and you stock up on medications and tissues like no tomorrow.

25. When you see winter commercials on TV or ad’s on social media about winter, you start getting agitated.

What do you hate about winter?

What I like about winter is when it’s over.

17 Things Some People Do That We Don’t Think Of Doing

In our world, there are certain people that do things that we do not even think of doing. Some things that can be over the top, bizarre and absolutely crazy. Here are those things:

1. There are people who count how many toilet paper rolls they have used in a year or throughout their lives. You’ll be surprised that people keep inventory

2. There are people who count everything they have in their home.

3. There are people who count how many times they use the washroom and shower per year.

4. There are people who have huge collections of something and they dedicate their time and lives to collections and hobbies. Which is great and I love that.

5. There are people who are absolutely so neat, clean and so organized. They have massive OCD and they go crazy to keep things so tidy. If something is out of place, they go absolutely nuts and have to clean or organize it right away.

6. On road trips, some people think of other cars that are driving the highways as travel companions and they get so sad to part ways thinking they will never see them again. Which in majority of the time its true.

7. There are people who write messages and emails and go back to read it after sending it.

8. There are people who look for the perfect parking spot and go around in circles until they feel comfortable with a spot to park at.

9. There are people who count how many shampoo bottles and body wash they use in a year.

10. When people go in a store where they are not planning on buying anything, they start to get paranoid that security thinks they are a shoplifter.

11. There are people who practice what to order in their minds in a coffee shop or other restaurants before their turn comes up to order.

12. People keep inventory of the most craziest things

13. There are people who are so frustrated waiting when it comes to heating things in the microwave and using the treadmill. I am almost convinced that treadmill minutes and microwave minutes are longer than the regular minutes in the day.

14. There are people who keep a music library on iTunes and even keep songs they never ever listen to.

15. There are people who think about when people take pictures out in public or at games, that you are in their pictures in the background or you are photobombing their photos without knowing.

16. When people stop listening to music with their headphones still on their ears and realize that its still on their ears hours later

17. There are people who count how many shoes, clothes, handbags, underwear and socks they have. They even count how many pajama’s they have.

TUMO – Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan, Armenia

TUMO – Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan, Armenia
By: Talin Orfali

In the last 4 years, I have heard about TUMO Center for Creative Technologies from the internet and my newsfeeds on my social media networks. It intrigued me to do research about TUMO and I absolutely became attracted to what it is all about.

TUMO is a non-profit educational center and was founded and began in August, 2011 by Sam and Sylvia Simonian by the Simonian Educational Foundation. The Center is located in Yerevan, Armenia in the capital of Armenia. The Central Bank of Armenia supports the center. TUMO also has a second campus in Dilijan, Armenia which opened its doors in 2013. They partnered with the AGBU (Armenian General Benevolent Union). They have recently expanded to other locations in Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh and Gyumri, Armenia.

What does TUMO Stand for? The flagship center is located at the end of Yerevan’s Tumanyan Park. It was named after Hovhannes Tumanyan. One of our prominent children’s authors and advocate. The park became known as TUMO and that was what was inspired to name the center TUMO to educate children in a very enriching environment.

Students can learn a variety of different subjects and study free of charge. The students learn about whatever subject(s) that suits their needs from filmmaking, web design, animation, game development, photography, programming, online literacy, music, robotics, 3D modeling, motion graphics, writing, drawing, social media and anything else in the digital world of media. Students can adapt to today’s technology, get in the loop about what is happening worldwide providing them with the necessary tools and resources for skill development to succeed in anything the students desire for the future. It is all 100% free of charge to attend TUMO.

The students learn in many ways with beautifully designed labs, with up-to date computers, software, technology and among workshops, activities to work in groups and individually. You can definitely come out to teach students in the learning lab. You must fill out a form and submit it to TUMO.

Students between ages 12-18 years old can be a TUMO student. They require a parent/guardian with the student(s), and a proof of ID such as passport, birth certificate and that is about it when you register.

The grand opening of TUMO was on August 14, 2011 with a concert to celebrate the Center was performed by Serj Tankian and The Dorians.

Many prominent figures such as George Clooney, Kanye West, Ian Gillan, Charles Aznavour and others have visited the The Center.

introducing to you the Advisory Board members:

Founders – Sam and Sylvia Simonian
Managing Director – Marie Lou Papazian
Designer – Arman Davtyan
Engineer Lead, Uber – Raffi Krikorian
Lead Creative, Fugitive – Roger Kupelian
CEO, Bazillion Beings – Pegor Papazian
Lecturer, Griffith University – Dr. Debra Porch
Producer, Pixar – Katherine Sarafian
CEO, Industrial Toys – Alex Seropian
Singer-Song Writer, Producer – Serj Tankian
Artist, Author, Actor – Vahe Berberian
Artist – Michael Aram

You can travel to Armenia and see our beautiful country meanwhile you can visit the TUMO Center as well. The visiting hours are on Wednesday’s, Thursday’s and Friday’s from 4-5pm. You must send them an e-mail a week or 2 prior to your visit.

you can email them if you are an academic group at visit@tumo.org
you can email them if you are individuals or other tours at tours@tumo.org

Hopefully in the near future I will be able to go visit the TUMO Center for Creative Technologies and meet with the Founders Sam and Sylvia. My passion is social media and writing. Hopefully I will be able to teach the students there about social media safety, how to start blogs, and how to full optimize social media, search engines and so much more. I am absolutely thrilled about this Center.

I wish you all the best at the Center(s), lots of continued success and many more years of TUMO.

You can contact TUMO, mail, email or by telephone.

Dilijan
Myasnikyan 63,
Dilijan, Armenia
+374 268 22586
infodilijan@tumo.org

 

Yerevan
Halabyan 16,
Yerevan, Armenia
+374 010 398413
info@tumo.org

Stepanakert
Knunyantsneri 2,
Stepanakert, Nagorno Karabakh
+374 47 963036
infostepanakert@tumo.org

For more information on visiting the center and more please visit http://www.tumo.org website to find out everything else.

Social Media Networks

— Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tumo.design/
— LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2880958/
— Twitter: @Tumocenter

12 Easy Ways to Make Christmas Gatherings More Enjoyable

Christmas time is here and its coming up in a few days. I am sure by now you have finished your shopping and figuring out what to do. Here are ways to make your Christmas gatherings a fun and enjoyable one where you do not have to spend a lot of your time in the kitchen. Spend more time with your loved ones instead of being on your feet the whole time. You need to enjoy it too and not just do all the work. A helping hand does go a long way. When others ask to help you or takes the initiative, let them.

Here are the 12 Easy ways:

1. When you know you are having a big gathering at your home and invited people over, the most important thing is to do the baking and dessert’s a day or 2 before. Nothing will go wrong with it. If it needs to go in the fridge or freezer nothing will happen to it. Don’t leave to the day of.

2. The day before, set the table, cutlery, napkins, plates and add centrepieces to your table, but not too big so your food dishes can fit on the table.

3. Don’t go over crazy to cook so many different things. 4-5 different things for dinner is good enough. If you serve chicken, turkey, roast, pork chops, ham. Go with one or 2 of them from the meat list, and then choose salad and rice or whatever you want to make or whatever is part of your Christmas tradition. Plus if you want to make gravy. Cook all of this stuff except if you are making salad or rice. That can be cooked and prepared before the guests start arriving and then have all the other food cooked from the morning. It can be heated up after for 10 to 15 minutes, then you take to your table and voila. — Don’t go over the top. Chances are you will eat left overs for the next week or so. Don’t want that.

4. Putting chips, assortment of nuts(If no one is allergic), salsa, nachos, guacamole, dips, veggie platters, finger foods in the beginning will get your guests full. People will over indulge, so its not a good idea to put so many things out in the beginning. Don’t spend too much time with putting these before the hard work you went through cooking all that food for dinner. Take them out after dinner along with dessert.

5. When others bring something when it comes to food, dessert, a bottle of wine or something like a gift, It is customary and proper etiquette to open and serve them too. Unless, they advise you otherwise, then its ok to keep it for yourself to open privately, but again open whatever is brought to you and in front of the people who brought them. It makes them feel good to see your reaction.

6. have coffee/tea ready — before just add the water to the machines and measure extra water and coffee grinds on the side in case you need to make more and then just go back and press the button and then continue on entertaining your guests and spend time with them until it is done.

7. Clearing plates and everything for dinner is great, but end it there. Don’t start washing and sorting, drying and all that. It takes a lot of quality time away from your loved ones. If they want to help, that is fine. I am sure they won’t let you clear away the table all on your own. They will help with everything and bring it to the kitchen and everything else will be dealt with after.

8. When you have a lot of people, disposable cutlery and plates are the way to go. If you have more than 10 to 15 people or more, its a good idea. You don’t have to spend time washing dishes.

9. Plan the Christmas week.. Plan a day to do your grocery shopping, and then make sure you have all the ingredients needed to make it. Sometimes getting extra ingredients are better in case something goes wrong which it can in some cases. Never leave anything to the last day.

10. Be efficient and organized as well as making sure the house is clean, the kitchen and all that.

11. ***Always monitor how many drinks your guests have. Don’t let them drink and then drive later. Make sure to call taxis if need be or allow your guests that are impaired to sleep over and go home the next day or if they come with another person who has not had anything to drink, they should be the designated driver. It is your responsibility if they drink and drive because they are driving from your home. Be the elephant in the room and don’t permit them to go. Police have RIDE Spot checks out more during the holidays and don’t put yourself or others lives in danger on the roads because of a careless wrong doing***

12. breathe and don’t be stressed out. Christmas gatherings should be fun and enjoyable as it can be. Don’t panic if some things go wrong. It will be a memory you will laugh about as the years go by.

Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a blessed, happy and healthy New year of 2018!

Are you a Sentimental Person? Do you Keep Items Important to you?

Are you a sentimental person?

In life, we hold onto items that are of sentimental value and a lot of the time there is no value into it. Its just sentimental and priceless. When it comes to past assignments from school back in the day, card’s I’ve received throughout the years, gifts from friends and family, some of my clothing as a child, some toys I had that were my favourite, I kept them. I even kept my first tooth and pieces of my hair on my first hair cut. I even kept my girl scout uniform with badges.

I kept all my Armenian School, and High School uniforms, even my student ID Cards.

I keep my airline baggage tags, boarding passes, tickets, resort and hotel stuff. Keep magazines, sickness bags with the airline name on it and everything from my travels, even the soap, shampoo and all that as well

I even keep all the shower invites, wedding favours, wedding invitations, the gifts given from weddings and showers. I never get rid of them. They are sentimental for me and a memory to look at. Plus I cherish and appreciate them because I know that it cost them for those things and a lot of time and hard work went into preparing, shopping for them for us guests to keep. I even keep the table numbers with my name on it.

I even kept all the valentines and birthday cards given to me from my fellow school classmates. I kept my school yearbooks, ticket stubs to games, concerts, places that I have been. I kept them all organized in different boxes.

When I was part of ACYOC – Armenian Church Youth Organization of Canada, and part of other committees, I still have all the papers, the meeting minutes that I wrote down, all the meetings we went to in Kingston, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, New York, Laval and more. I kept the folders and when I went on retreats in the last few years, I kept the folders with everything inside. All the pictures taken throughout the years.

It is important to be sentimental. If you get rid of everything and not keep important things, one day you will look back and regret getting rid of it. Its nice to go back to memory lane and see all the stuff from your life. I do every once in a while and its great.

I don’t go as far as hoarders do, but I am reasonable with what I have, and manage it all.

After our wedding, I am so excited to be keeping everything and creating a spot for our wedding stuff.

It doesn’t take much space. It all depends on how organized you are and to be efficient in creating space.

Are you a sentimental person? What have you kept?

7 Things to Stay Away From When Booking an All Inclusive Vacation

7 Things to Stay Away From When Booking an All Inclusive Vacation

1. Traveler Reviews – Opinions are always different from another person. Don’t search for reviews written by others. Chances are they could be lying, exaggerating, and chances are they have never been there and want to cause problems. Reviews can be misleading, and untrue. Form your own opinion and travel experiences. If you keep reading reviews, you won’t be traveling at all. You do not want to go to that route. Yes, its nice to value others opinions and ask for them, but ultimately you are the one traveling, Try it out.

2. Over-tipping – It is All Inclusive for a reason right? Everything is included in the price. Don’t go tip crazy. Of course you will want to tip your bell boy who takes your baggage to your room and take your baggage to the lobby area after your vacation and also to tip your room maker, but do not go crazy tipping every single person at the resort.

3. Excursions – When they over pressure you and bother you everyday about going on excursions, chances are they are an arm and a leg. They advertise it so well saying its great, come and don’t miss out and then you get your hopes up and then it’s not as exciting as they said it would be. Do things on your own. It is the best way. Selling excursions may be more expensive than going out on your own.

4. Travel Insurance from the booking company/tour operator – Always decline travel insurance when you are booking. It will cost you more. Buy travel/medical insurance separately or unless you have benefits through your place of employment that already has insurance, go ahead, but don’t jump into buying traveling insurance with the travel provider.

5. Star ratings – Yes, that is one of the first things we see when booking an all-inclusive trip. Everyone’s expectations are different, everyone’s taste as well, we may want more, we may want less. Our perceptions of cleanliness, drinks, food taste, taste buds, room comfort, resort amenities are different. Again it is similar to reviews. Form your own star and review ratings.

6. Beach Soliciting – stay away from those wanting to braid your hair. You never know where their hands have been, or how long they have not washed the brushes and products they use for your hair, or those people who are selling you cigars. Chances are they are giving you fake cigars that are loaded with banana leaves. If they are walking by the shore line and see you, they will always come bother you. Keep saying no and walk away and ignore them. Any local for that matter. You had just come out of the water. They expect you to have money on you all the time and on an all-inclusive trip. Don’t fall for it and walk away

7. Orientation – When you board your bus at the airport and take you to your resort, they give you a pamphlet of your resort, and they will tell you that the next morning there is orientation to get to know your resort, your flight information back home, and all that. They will try to sell you excursions and persuade you to do so, but I wouldn’t waste time being in a meeting where the beach, and the water, and your meals await you. Vacations go by so fast. Don’t want to waste a second of it.

Is Our Social Media Behavior Destroying Our Society?

Remember when life was simple back in the day? We used to have more family time and we went out smelled the fresh air. We used to come up with ways to occupy ourselves with doing arts, crafts, playing board games, creating our own games. In the past, people used to do so much together and communicate by looking at each other. Life was simple, and togetherness was a vital part of our life. We used to get together more.

In over a decade or more, the internet has taken people by storm. It has become part of our lives. Something we call social media. Now, here is a question that I need to ask. Is social media destroying our society? Nowadays, there is an app for everything. So many different things get created to keep smart phone, computer users entertained endlessly. A lot of people are now more interested in what they see on their screen devices, tablets and computers rather than looking up and spending time with your life.

A lot of satire, fake news, and false information is being spread back and forth and there are those who believe in everything they read and absorb that information they do read and then something false gets spread around and then finding out it’s a hoax and not the real deal. The internet has become a very messed up place. It is a fun place to be, don’t get me wrong. There is so many things you can do to pass time and to interact with friends and family, but don’t let social media consume you.

Now, in my opinion as a social media professional, as a writer and my point of view to answer this question, Yes I think social media is destroying our society and it is getting worse. I’ve seen a lot of things going on where jealousy strikes, where memes are made about everything to make fun, to make jokes about.

Not everything is a joke. There are serious things that happen in the news and there are people who are ahead of the rest and make very ridiculous and terrible memes, Photoshop, alter pictures, dub videos and poke fun at things that are not supposed to be funny. Some people have a lot of time on their hands to do things like that. People have gotten so carried away just so that they can get their 15 minutes of fame.

Now, there are those people who post really incredibly ridiculous, unnecessary videos of themselves doing really crazy and stupid things just to gain popularity, just to get their nonsense out there just so they can be famous no matter what it is. People will do anything and everything now because of how easy it is to get out there with social media present. They don’t realize how quickly things can go viral. People do not know consequences of their actions. Some people get so influenced by these things especially teenagers and then they do the same thing. It doesn’t matter if trouble arises. There will be people who will do anything at any cost. –

They even get paid for nonsense. It is really sad that people have come this far. Viral, trends, trending, and people will do it all. Instead of doing good things, setting a great example and doing things to better this society and our world, it’s getting worse. People nowadays strive for attention, they are hungry to get noticed.

It really is a mess out there in the internet world. All these social media outlets and information that is out there these days is hard to believe what is real and what is fake. There is information that is misleading and its unfortunate that people need to resort to creating stupidity.

So many people are so into screen time. It is like a sickness and cannot be cured. In this society and culture, screen time is in our veins now, its like a drug that we need in our day-to-day lives. If we are not taking screen time everyday, its like a missed dose and people go absolutely crazy.

In this society that is so vulnerable, the world communication is very strong, but we are vulnerable, we feel that we cannot control our habits in constantly communicating with the world no matter what it is. We feel like we always need to do it to feel satisfied.

Some people do not even know how to verbally talk anymore, our behavior around others are becoming terrible, the art of getting together, our manners, and socially adapt to society is becoming slim to none. People do not even have to leave their homes anymore to do shopping and go out of the house to see the world anymore because people do online shopping now, people resort to apps to deliver parcels and things to their home.

We are all being monitored 24/7 365 days a year. Nothing is private anymore, our lives are constantly being watched and its very unfortunate on how we have come to this point in this generation and this life we live in.

This is a very serious problem and simple things are not so simple anymore. People are behaving badly. It is evident. I seldom take public transit, but I do see people buried into their phones, I see people not knowing how to adapt to society and to behave. People get triggered by something that is not a big deal, people start to get agitated and uncomfortable with their surroundings because they do not know how to act, they don’t know how to interact with others.

Everything is constantly communicated through screens, texting, and more. People text and drive now, they text and look at their screens while walking through intersections and not even watching where they go, people take selfies and pictures at dangerous places and then they either get killed or they get badly injured. Distracted driving has taken a huge role in this society as well and many governments, cities and countries have strict laws into texting and driving. Do not text and drive and put yourself and anyone else in danger. Things on screens can wait. Driving and concentrating should be a priority.

Social Media is a powerful tool now. Yes, there are advantages to social media too. I am not saying that it is all bad in its entirety, but there are ways that it can be great, positive, and something that can inspire people. Unless social media is used in a necessary way to think before we post something, then by all means do it. We just need to find balance in our lives. The internet is never going to go away. It will always be there now. We just need to focus on prioritizing our lives, make it more fun and enjoyable without always tuning into social media and posting every single thing you do in your life.

There are things that are meant to be private. Not everything should be posted for the world’s eye to see.

We definitely need to get out more in society, to learn how to behave properly like how we used to back in the day before the millennial generation came around. I miss these simplistic years where things used to be so different.

Lets take care of each other, watch out for each other and make the internet a great place to learn from each other in good ways, spread good things and make peace with inspiring and beautiful messages. Our world of people are in dire need for goodness. We can all get along, its just some influences and bad behavior gets us sometimes. We should never let that affect us.

All the best. Now here are some questions for you.

What do you think about social media?

What do you like to see changed about it?

What is social media to you?

Removing These 31 Things From Your Life Will Make You Happier and More Successful

Macy Cate Williams
PopSugar

– Comparing yourself to others.

– Creating unrealistic expectations for yourself.

– Your social media obsession.

– Bad spending habits.

– Fear of the unknown.

– Living in the past.

– Putting off a vacation.

– Your packed schedule.

– Unhealthy relationships.

– Waiting for the perfect moment.

– The need to be in control of everything.

– Relying on others to make you feel happy and fulfilled.

– Avoiding getting out of the house.

– Your need to have the best things.

– Your hesitation to indulge.

– Feeling sorry for yourself.

– Fear of failure.

– Grudges.

– Worrying what others think of you.

– Your disorganized lifestyle.

– Controlling others.

– Jealousy.

– Blaming others for your mistakes.

– A yearning to fit in.

– Overanalyzing situations.

– Friends who aren’t there for you.

– Resisting change.

– Being afraid to be yourself.

– Holding onto items you don’t need.

– Avoiding your problems.

– Worrying about missing out.

Taking Responsibility and Being Independent

In life, unexpected things happen that requires us to take responsibility, being independent and taking problems that arise and acting accordingly to it. In life there are going to be so many obstacles, curve balls thrown, and so many things are going to happen without us even expecting it. We need to address the situation that happens in a time sensitive and good manner.

In life, when things like this happen, it gives us lesson to learn. Our actions tells everything. Actions that are a mistake that we do, has consequences, but when you learn from your mistakes, it is not a consequence, it is merely a lesson to learn. Life is not all about perfection. Mistakes are always going to be in our path. We need to live up to it, to try to better ourselves with not making the same mistakes.

Being independent and taking responsibility is very mature, it’s a way to strengthen your confidence in life. Yes, asking for guidance, help and advice is great, but sometimes you have to be your own person and take care of your own battles, you have to own up to whatever has happened. Yes, you can rely on others, but not all the time. You have to help yourself as that is the way to learn.

We sometimes don’t tell others about the mistakes or things that have happened to us and it’s totally fine. It is actually good to just keep things to yourself, but it depends on what it is. It’s good to fix a problem on your own without help. It doesn’t mean that you should never ask for help for anything, it just means some issues need to be handled with just you alone.

If you are one of those people who are always dependent on others, who cannot make decisions for yourself and who is confused to know what to do in certain situations, then yes asking for help and advice is good, but the only way to really learn is to take matters into your own hands and do what you feel is best.

Feeling stuck sometimes happens to all of us. In the end we are human, we are here for a short time. Life is not always going to be what we expect it to be. Take each day as it comes and go forward.

Feel proud of being responsible and independent, but also in the meantime help others who are always dependent of others and who are irresponsible. Show them the way to get on track. All is takes is the willingness to do so and to strive to maturity. Life is always going to be learning process. Never stop learning. It is an amazing feeling and keep it up.

Distracted Drivers are Dangerous Drivers

These days and the past few years, we keep hearing about tragic fatalities that are caused by distracted drivers on our roads, senseless deaths and injuries that can be averted. Talking on your cell phone, texting people, checking Facebook and other social networks constantly is a no-no. You do not have to be in constant communication with the world 24/7 365. Everything has its limitations. It is dangerous. You are endangering others lives, passengers in your own vehicle, and yourself. Safety while driving should be the number one priority. Go from point A to B safely and when you are parked and vehicle is shut off, then you may resume to your communication to the world.

People do not understand the dangers associated with it. Dealing with the law is something people would not want to do. Driving is a serious thing. If you do not have your 100% concentration on the road, you can really do damage, damaging families forever, loss of life, and so much more. Unfortunately this society does not understand that. Also grooming yourself, reading a book while driving, playing with iPods, playing with gadgets, having a coffee in one hand and food in the other while steering with your knee is a no-no, just so that you can hold a device in your hands. People will do anything and everything and its so wrong to do so. You can easily lose track and lose control. It is a very serious matter. Put distractions down and focus on driving.

Hefty fines, tickets, points, to imprisonment, to all kinds of consequences can leave a permanent dent into your record. You do not want to risk losing your licence, suspension or any other things because of the act of distracted driving.  You are in control of what your actions are. Think before you act. When you are driving on the roads and highways, its not just about you anymore. You have to be responsible for you, the passengers in your car if you have, and you have to concentrate and be responsible for those driving around you and even pedestrians on the roads. A careless mistake can lead to a lot of problems.

Distracted driving also includes impairment, fatigue, and drunk driving. Being given a driver’s licence is giving you a privilege to drive.

Call a taxi, call a parent, call a friend, Do not drive. Call anybody. Just don’t get behind a wheel.

It is that simple. Insurance premiums go up ridiculously high because of other people’s mistakes and those who have a good driving record have to pay for others mistakes. It is not fair. Insurance premiums go up due to these unfortunate matters. We can all do our part to drive safer, to focus, to take driving seriously, to better ourselves. Driving is not a joke. You are playing with your life and others lives. A vehicle is a weapon. It can do terrible damages to others. So think about it. Think about the next time you have your phone, or gadgets or something with you. Think before you act, think before you do something. It can save you all the hassle in future.