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