"RUN HOME, Jack! RUN HOME, Jack!"

…
(British accent:)
"NO!  No, Smee.  They've goht it BACK-WUHDS!"
(--Captain James Hook, 'Hook')


… I've NEVER been particularly-FOND of "PLAYING-baseball"--EXCEPT
"DRINKING T-ball".  But, I've ALWAYS been fond-of "keeping-up" with the STATS!
(… SIGH … Numbers!)


…
"The great writer--Oscar Wilde--once said, 'LIFE is far-too IMPORTANT a thing to ever talk-SERIOUSLY about."
(--ME, MY valedictory)
(… WAY-to-CONCLUDE your sentence with a PREPOSITION, … Mr. GENIUS-Writer!
I'm--JOKINGLY--"frowning-upon" you!)


…
"BLESSED are those who can LAUGH at THEMSELVES, … for they will NEVER cease to be AMUSED."
(--SOME prayer)
(… What a TERRIFIC "audience"!)
(… Despite my NOT being religious … AT ALL, I DID attend a DEVOUT-Catholic high school … STRICTLY for its PHENOMENAL, HERALDED ACADEMIC- & ATHLETIC-reputation!)

Never take yourself too seriously. Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a MIRACLE-drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you put everything in perspective.


…
"KNOWING what to-do is VERY, very DIFFERENT from actually DOING it."
(--Seth Godin)


… "People usually FEEL what they THINK, and
THINK what they FEEL."
(--Albert Ellis)
(… Generally/"For the MOST part", I AGREE w/ Mr. Ellis.
HOWEVER, the MANY instances resulting from my "T.B.I." have CAUSED me to DRAMATICALLY-alter my JUDGMENT.)


5 out of 4 people STRUGGLE with MATH.
(… THAT's … 125%)
(… Ergo, I am NOT one of THOSE UNFORTUNATE 125%.)


… "I am an OPTIMIST.  …
It does NOT seem too much USE being anything ELSE."
(--Winston Churchill)


… I ALWAYS feel NICE/PROUD, when one of MY MANY "MARTIAL ARTS"-techniques is WELL-received … as it was TODAY … by the KID-/YOUNG-students!
((… Since "crack is WHACK"(--Whitney Houston), I HIGHLY-recommend studying MARTIAL ARTS.))
(… "Jujitsu" is MY "cocaine".)


…
SURROUND-yourself with people who BELIEVE-in YOUR "dreams".


… A PATIENT-HEART calms a "STORMY-MIND".
(… APPARENTLY, I LACK a "PATIENT-HEART".
… With MY "T.B.I.", I DO.)
(… DAG-NABBIT!)


…
"(AUDIBLE SIGH)
SOMETIMES you can 'get FURTHER' & accomplish-MORE by
being-SILENT & 'just SMILING and NODDING'."
(--The GREAT … yet INFAMOUS … Altan J. Kaynatma)


((I've EDITED/REVISED--in BOLD-- a "Janet Jackson"-song (''Got 'til It's Gone'') to SING to my LEGS:))

"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone

Have a feelin', now believin'
That you were the set
I was meant to be with
Oh, how I'm wishin'
Thinkin', dreamin' 'bout you
And the love, how'd I lose your amazing strength?
Got 'til it's gone
Got 'til it's gone

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone

If I could turn back hands of time
Make me question the tire-mechanic
Re-route my drive from Karate-class.
So would you give me another chance to walk?
To lean-on you, lean-on you the right way
No games
RE-learn how to WALK
RE-learn how to WALK

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's
Yeah, let me just fuck with it for a minute
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone

Now you are realizing when the WALKS are long, right
Shift weight from leg-to-leg
When you know that I'm tired, right
You act all wild
When I tell you to bend
I was working 'round the clock
But you legs wanna collapse
Talkin' about, I heard my hip crack when there's weight on it

That was JUST noise, NO pain
But, your weakness 'drives me' insane
Head in hand, cold jonezin'
Punching my thighs
Ignoring my brain
'Block it' & stalling

Now why you wanna go and do that?
Nerves, huh
Now why you wanna go and do that?
And do that? Huh
Now why you wanna go and do that?
Nerves, huh
Now why you wanna go and do that?
And do that? Huh

Now why you wanna go and do that?
Nerves, huh
Now why you wanna go and do that?
And do that? Huh
Now why you wanna go and do that?
Nerves, huh
Now why you wanna go and do that?
And do that? And do that?

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone

That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone
Dust"

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