Monday
Fear is everywhere. Often it leads to stupidity, anger, blame, unhappiness and more fear. It’s good to keep this in mind when interacting with other humans.
Be kind and patient. Whether you can see it or not, people are afraid.
Tuesday
A lot of a man’s work is learning how to be not fragile. If your family and the people who work for you have to tiptoe around your moods, if you have to be catered to, if you must have the last word, you are still fragile.
Wednesday
The whole thing is worth reading again:
We call people who do evil debased things monsters.
We call people who serve altruistically angels.
We separate ourselves from both,
as if those extremes were
something other than
human.
We comfort ourselves: I could never be a monster!
I’m only human, not a celestial being.
Better to speak truth: Beware
of how low one can sink.
Imagine how high
one can fly!
Thursday
The secret to happiness is there is no secret. We know what we need to do. The trick is figuring out how to do it. Changing your behaviour is hard. Changing your environment is easier, so change your environment and let your behaviour adapt to the new environment.
There are several types of national leader. I’m looking for one of them. The clue is:
penis potato
Answers in the comments, please.
All you need is a guitar with two strings and a pedal. (Also the album version.)
Happy weekend!
Jeff
Thanks for the softball after some hard ones, pun intended!!! The likes of Hitler, Kim Jong, Castro, and Stalin might even have a chuckle!
Dictator!