In addition, the ability to choose wisely and well atrophies when there is no need to choose.

And I’ve seen/known people who earn CEO level salaries but they are always worried, tense, depressed, eating one pill to another for anything from depression to insomnia.

And I’ve come to realize that it’s all about your heart and inner state of mind. If you accept whatever happens to you as fate/destiny and stop worrying about what happenED to you sometime back, life becomes really wonderful.

But if you just like to talk and complain about every other bad thing that happened to you, you only burn into a fire that you lit yourself.

Yes I’d be honored!

@BBQ,

Thanks for the link!

Ok, time for another off-topic post.  Steve Olson has written a great post that puts current events into a different perspective, one that if nothing else should cause one to stop and think how fortunate we are to be living in these times.
Who knows, …

Can I put this on a T-shirt?

The video is most appropriate and entertaining I love when he talks about the plane… how people are not contributing. It’s actually the opposite, their body weight is pulling the plane down, especially with obesity’s problem today, which is another reflection of how much (little) people truly care these days (even about themselves!).

The sad truth of things are that we are living in a “gimme” time when more joy and happiness will be gaind simply through our giving. Don’t get me wrong – I love to “get” things and win things (as I recently did from Christine’s books – thank you again for that) but the old saying that it’s better to give than receive still holds true today.

Also – “Happiness is a choice.” So true!!! We can be happy through the rough times and trust me – there will be many rough times but do what you can with what you have and it will be easy to choose to be happy!

Giving – having the “spirit of Christmas” through out the entire year would do this world a lot of good!

Thanks for letting us post our 2cents worth!

@Daniel, I didn’t know about it either until the last few days. One of those things I guess they just didn’t talk about. My Dad told me recently while we were discussing the current economy and the comparisons to the Great Depression. As of right now, it isn’t even close.

@Kelvin, I grew up with only 3 channels too and I loved them. I don’t like the word spoiled. It’s okay to have lots of stuff. It’s fine to be wealthy and eat well. It’s the complete lack of gratitude by some that amazes me. The lack of courage and thick skin also amazes me. People run from the first sign of conflict or disagreement. They also get offended at the drop of a hat. In Americans this problem seems to be present in baby boomers and after. They expect comfort and wealth by default and forget that it comes at a price. That price is giving and caring and producing. It comes from morality and ethics and wisdom.

We are spoiled, really.

Excellent points.

A terrible shame your family endured this heavy-handed madness. A side of the Great Depression I was not aware of.

I ran across the video material some time ago (I used it on a Gratitude Watch), and then YouTube pulled it. It’s good to see it again — it serves up an excellent point in a humorous way that makes it easier to stomach. Glad it’s up again.