Useless Advice Mondays: Life Lessons

Learn from the mistakes of others. If you can't do that, when your feeling blue, laugh at the mistakes of others.....that usually works too.

The other day, I was feeling kinda blue. The typical "life sucks", "what the hell am I going to do?", "Should I have really eaten that?", "I miss Bigfoot", you know, just a bummer. Then a thought entered my head that made me kind of chuckle. I've had this thought on several occasions, and it never fails to make me smile. I remembered what is probably the greatest example of instant karma in the last 10 years. I'll provide a link to the moment below. Burn it into your memory and refer back whenever you need a pick me up, because no matter how bad things are going, watching someone botch a once-in-a-lifetime chance is always going to make you feel better.

Here's a warm up for the video: It's the 2006 Winter Olympics, you're going down the final stretch in your snowbaording event with a seemingly insurmountable lead. Two fairly simple jumps left. All of a sudden, you think "I'm so damn cool, I'm gonna get a little slappy with this here jump. Take that Olympic tradition! The whole world's watching, I'm kicking ass. Wheaties box here I come......" and then:

Yeah. You get em tiger. (Just to make it clear, I am having a hard time typing right now because this makes me laugh my ass off eveytime I see it.)

So what's better than blowing your shot at an OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL? Lying about it later and saying that you "got off balance and were trying to correct" yourself (she later admitted that she was trying to do a trick).

So whenever you're having a bad day, just remember this: At least you didn't just throw away an olypic gold medal because you got cocky. Karma's a bitch.