Some people need to go grow up. They should need to take responsibility for their own actions and not place the blame on others. Blaming others won’t fix your problems. Also, live within your means. It only makes sense to spend what you make, right? And maybe save a lil bit. It doesn’t hurt to plan ahead or think about the future. And if you want something, you have to work for it. More often than not, you have to work hard for it. You shouldn’t expect things to just be given to you, as if you’re entitled to it. Life’s never than easy. I wish it was, but I didn’t make the rules.

And another thing, lying does no one any good. It hurts the people being lied about and it will hurt the people lied to if when the truth eventually comes out, and it makes the person(s) doing the lying look like a complete jackass. It’s lose-lose for all parties involved.

One would think these are basic, fundamental concepts that shouldn’t be difficult to comprehend, but I guess some people just don’t get it, or just don’t want to.

On Saturday, I received a package in the mail. It was a flimsy 10x12 manila folder, postmarked from South Korea. First off, I wasn’t expecting any packages (I keep track of all the things I buy online on a spreadsheet), and secondly, who the hell in South Korea is sending me stuff? I don’t know anybody in South Korea, and there was no customs declaration tag on it, so I was kinda skeptical about it. Still, I was curious since it was kinda big yet super flimsy, so I opened it. It turned out it was a set of 4 plastic file folders with pictures of SNSD’s 2011 calender photo shoot on them.

My first reaction was “whoa, cool”, immediately followed by “who the hell sent this to me?” I was thinking maybe it was one of my cousins or something. I ordered the SNSD 2011 calendar from a guy in South Korea in January, and I happened to still have the packaging it came in, and what do you know, this was from the same sender! Mystery solved, right? Well, sorta but not really.

So I knew who it came from, but I still didn’t know why. I didn’t order it myself and my credit card wasn’t charged. Did he just send it out as a gift, out of the goodness of his heart? Highly doubted it, so I googled it. I was aware that the calendar had some errors on it (wrong birthdays for several SNSD members), but I didn’t know that they were offering free replacements of the erroneous calendars with a corrected version. For the people who didn’t sign up for the free replacement, as a consolation, they were sent  the set of plastic file folders. So there you have it.

It’s cool to receive free stuff in the mail, but it’s even better to know why.