From NOW on, whenever I "CHEERS" glasses for a "TOAST", I shall "wish BETTER-accumulation of 'MENTAL-STRENGTH'" … a la 'LUCY':
"To KNOWLEDGE." (clink)
…
"IF you wanna FEEL-better, take a PILL.
… IF you wanna FIX-it, 'face the TRUTH'."
(--'NUMB3RS')
(… I COULD "take-the-
"LEARN from the MISTAKES of OTHERS.
You caN'T live LONG-enough to make them-ALL YOURSELF."
(--Eleanor Roosevelt)
((… I've noticed that since I can no longer TALK … as MUCH, I've become more OBSERVANT, … ASTUTE … & INSIGHTFUL.
… NO, I am NOT implying that I've become more JUDGMENTAL!
(… ALTHOUGH, I kinda HAFTA "judge" people … for MY-OWN--CURRENT--SAFETY & WELL-BEING.)
(… I STILL PREFER to let people's ACTIONS determine their "WORTH". … Just, NOW, I have "far-LESS" PATIENCE to give additional-"CHANCES".)
… EVERYONE makes MISTAKES.
"FORGIVE them, … EVEN if they're NOT sorry.
(… THIS DELIBERATE-omission--by YOU--HELPS you … to MAINTAIN your "SANITY".)
Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that
comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because
all things have contributed to your advancement, you should
include all things in your gratitude. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson.
ME--to my staff at a meeting: "Ignorance brings CHAOS,
not knowledge."
(… "Ignorance" means "NOT-knowing", NOT "STUPIDITY" …
… as MANY people INCORRECTLY think. … Ergo, ask
ALOTTA questions! … THAT's what I "tell" my
Karate-/Jujitsu-students about my TECHNIQUES.)
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(This is "ONE way to look at" the "bare-essentials" of LIFE:)
My Blog-CREATOR--to ME: "We've codified our existence to
bring it down to human- size, to make it comprehensible,
we've created a scale so we can forget its unfathomable
scale.
... Humans consider themselves unique so they've rooted
there whole theory of existence on their uniqueness. One is
their unit of measure, but it's not. All social systems we've
put into place are a mere sketch. One plus one equals two.
That's all we've learned, but one plus one has never equaled
two. There are, in fact, no numbers and no letters. We've
codified our existence to bring it down to human size to
make it comprehensible. We've created a scale so that we
can forget its unfathomable scale."
(--Lucy, 'Lucy')
MY response: "HHHMMM. It seems like SOMEONE is STILL-upset over MY earning a PERFECT MATH SAT-score to HIS receiving a PERFECT VERBAL SAT-score!"
Yes, I DID win an EXORBITANT-amount of 'PARA' (Turkish
for 'MONEY') from my lawsuit-VICTORY over the
NEGLIGENT tire-company. But, I am "WAY-MORE
concerned with MY "TUMULTUOUS" yet "REWARDING"
QUEST for PHYSICAL-SUCCESS! … SADLY, MY UN-
selfish "way of THINKING" is RARE.)
"We humans are more concerned with
HAVING than with BEING."
(--Professor Norman, 'Lucy')
My housemate--to ME: "For primitive beings like us, life
seems to have only one single purpose: gaining time. And, it
is going through time that seems to be also the only real
purpose of each of the cells in our bodies. To achieve that
aim, the mass of the cells that make up earthworms and
human beings has only two solutions: Be immortal, or to
reproduce.
… If its habitat is not sufficiently-favorable or nurturing, the
cell will choose immortality. In other words, self-sufficiency
and self-management. On the other hand, if the habitat is
favorable, they will choose to reproduce. That way, when
they die, they hand down essential information and
knowledge to the next cell. Which hands it down to the next
cell and so on. Thus knowledge and learning are handed
down through time."
(--Professor Norman, 'Lucy')
MY response: "Since I'd consider my LEGS as PART-of MY 'habitat', I'd DEFINITELY-say that 'tis 'NOT sufficiently-favorable'. … Can I get an 'AMEN!'?"
My housemate: "AMEN!"
ME: (HALF-mocking) "WAY to be a 'YES-man'! … But, I APPRECIATE the SUPPORT. … FURTHERMORE, since I can-NOT & desire-NOT to seek-IMMORTALITY, … I HAFTA 'reproduce'. Ergo, … 'GIRLS-night'!"
My INTERNAL-monologue:
"LIFE was given to … 'US' … a billion years ago. Now you know what YOU can do with it."
(--CONCLUDING lines of 'Lucy')
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