| Life is filled with prolems and we'll never | | | | one occurence. How can anyone who intends to |
| get rid of them all. So why not face your | | | | do you harm face up to a smile? A smile just |
| worries with a positive attitude and a bit of | | | | diffuses a nasty situation. |
| laughter? If Tibetan monks have showed us | | | | |
| anything, life is impermanent and if you hope | | | | Read something funny rather than watch the |
| to achieves success or nirvana, you should | | | | news with it's focus on bad news. Watch funny |
| approach it with a smile. Even the Joker will | | | | movies, rather than the decadence caused by a |
| tell you so! | | | | despotic leader. There's plenty at your local |
| | | | video shop. Of course, what tickles the funny |
| As adults we all have busy lifestyles, but | | | | bone for one doesn't work for the next guy. I |
| the fact is the busier we get, the more we | | | | can get a chuckle with a one-liner from Bob |
| need laughter and humor. Laughter, we've been | | | | Hope as I can from watching Dumb and Dumber |
| told, by more than just Reader's Digest, is | | | | for the fourth time (No, I haven't watched it |
| the best medicine. After all a grin uses far | | | | that many time, but I'll get around to it). |
| fewer facial muscles than a frown. So unless | | | | Someone is likely to join a terrorist group |
| you feel a great need to exercise more of | | | | when I say I actually LIKED Laugh-In. |
| your facial muscles than necessary, a smile, | | | | |
| a grin, chuckle will make you feel a whole | | | | BE CHILD-LIKE. I didn't say CHILDISH. The |
| lot better than worrying about bills and the | | | | fact is that children are naturals at smiling |
| future. | | | | and laughter. The world is a wonder, seldom |
| | | | fraught with perils for them. In fact |
| There's a story (possibly true) that a man | | | | children smile and laugh ten to one hundred |
| with cancer cured himself simply by reading | | | | times more than adults. Or sure they don't |
| funny stories and watching funny movies. | | | | have a mortgage to worry about, but you and |
| There's something to laughter that does the | | | | me know that worrying about it won't make the |
| soul good. Consider the Dalai Lama and how | | | | bills go away. |
| often he smiles and laughs. You'd expect him | | | | |
| to wear a frown and walk around angry at the | | | | So you roasted the pot roast too much? Don't |
| Chinese and what they did to his country and | | | | cry over it. Your pot roast won't improve if |
| its peoples. Yet he goes on to smile! | | | | you baste it with your tears. |
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| I just have to admire a man like that. Humble | | | | ATTITUDE...Attitude! What happens when you |
| and yet keeps smiling despite his difficulty. | | | | start talking to a stranger? Undoubtedly |
| Too many people approach a difficult | | | | you're looking for his ulterior motive. We |
| situation with gut wrenching determination | | | | have the attitude that the stranger that |
| and the attitude of a steam roller ready to | | | | approaches you is looking for something or |
| squash anyone that stands in their way. | | | | he's out to mug you. Why can't we just talk |
| | | | and communicate without having to think that |
| The world needs more humor, more laughter. | | | | someone other than the government is out to |
| There ought to be a dedicated team of | | | | drain our bank accounts? |
| professionals whose only ain is to wipe out | | | | |
| the sour looks that most of us carry around | | | | REALIZE the impermanence in all things. Let's |
| on a daily basis. | | | | get back to Lily for a moment. Do you think |
| | | | she'll be easily forgotten by all those |
| To put a smile on our faces doesn't require a | | | | people she met? Of course not. Life is short |
| college education. All we need is a simple | | | | and if you want to be remembered you can: a) |
| change of attitutde. Here are some pointers: | | | | become a despot who finds humor in killing |
| | | | anyone who opposes him. b) achieve great |
| SMILE! I remember a gal named Lillian. | | | | things only to fail at life and |
| Everyone liked her simply because she had an | | | | relationships. Everyone has heard of Jim |
| infectious smile and a great attitude. She'd | | | | Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. |
| greet you as if you were the most important | | | | Famous yes, but would you want to emulate |
| person she ever met. Diamond Lily lived up to | | | | them? c) become like Mother Teresa, Princess |
| her billing and didn't let anything upset | | | | Diana, Mahatma Gandhi, the Dalia Lama. |
| her. The fact that she resembled Mama Cass in | | | | |
| face and form was hardly noticeable by all | | | | The simple point is that humor, an infectious |
| the guys. I even moved into her apartment | | | | attitude will spread far more and do more to |
| right by the Decarie Boulevard in Montreal | | | | create a better world than just terror alone. |
| where the smog, traffic noises and winter | | | | And likely you'll be remembered far longer |
| chills were sure to wreck havoc on my health. | | | | than any dictator. |
| I remained only so long as to live out the | | | | |
| balance of her rental clause. I just wouldn't | | | | So cultivate humor like you'd cultivate your |
| have done that for any other woman, but I | | | | garden. Like a glorious flower or fully |
| sure was happy to do it for Lily! Just | | | | ripened fruit, humor will eventually dispense |
| imagine where a genuine smile can take you! | | | | the weeds of life. |
| It CAN get you out of a pickle in more than | | | | |