These “Woodshed Moments” are equivalent to grabbing ner-do-wells by the scruff of the neck to get their attention and saying “Straighten up and fly right or else — and here’s why”!
There’s no getting around it: LIFE’S TOUGH … perhaps excepting for a lucky few who have had the good fortune to benefit from the grit and grind of others – but, even then, it’s often only temporary. The bliss and ecstasy of marrying someone, who, we fully expect, will selflessly look after our personal welfare…
One of the hardest things to decipher in life is what it’s going to take to get from where we are NOW to where we want/deserve/need to go and be – eventually … i.e., how to fill that GAP. It’s a HUGE GAP of many proportions, and the “End Game” seems so indeterminately far away.…
“You CAN have it all, just not all at once!” [… and then you do Weight Watchers … ] Oprah Winfrey A participant in a “Lifelong Philosophy” colloquium asked the question: “Where do you get your news?” He had been intrigued to find that Gen X-Y-Z individuals get most or all of their news…
This week’s question is: How are you doing … and compared to who(m) or what? Everything is relative, right? No less than Einstein, his own self, said so! However, what’s dangerous about benchmarking is that we can always identify someone less “special”, less “good”, less worthy, less “balanced”, less intelligent – however nuanced…
What if the main reason we become unhappy is that we have unrealistic expectations? While mowing the lawn last weekend, I became aware of a neighbor’s child crying – actually on the verge of a tantrum. I couldn’t help thinking how unfortunate it is that children can’t and don’t yet understand how life works and…