Lighten Up, America!

Aren't you just sick of bad news? Are you tired of hearing about all the doom and gloom in the various industries lining up for a government handout? Every day, we hear about more people losing their jobs, their houses, their retirement plans, blah, blah, blah...

ENOUGH ALREADY!!!

Lighten up, America!!!

O.K., so you've lost your job. You're broke. Your in debt up to your eyeballs. You're afraid of what your future holds. Are you still living above ground, and not sleeping in a coffin six feet under? Are you eating at least once a day? Are you sleeping under a roof, up off the ground?

Well, smile, dammit! You're better off than 95% of the world's population.

Who needs 500 channels of satellite T.V. Anyway? You can't watch them all at once. Stop you're whining because you don't have the big flat screen television with Dolby surround sound in your living room. Read a book. Read a magazine. Read a newspaper. For that matter, read Dr. Suess. You might learn something. Hell, you might even enjoy yourself!

Talk with your family in the evenings instead of turning on the cop and medical dramas. Laugh, crack jokes, burp, fart. Let go of all the crap in your life that doesn't mean anything anyway. Look at it this way, if your domicile burned to the ground TONIGHT, wouldn't your first concern be that your loved ones survived? Would you care about all the junk that burned? Or would you rejoice because you and your family got out in time and survived to rebuild another day.

If you lost your job today, would you see it as a tragedy, or an opportunity?

Think about all your possessions. Think about all that “stuff” (to put it politely) crammed into your attic, your closets, your storage sheds and rented storage. Does that stuff make you happy? Does it make you who you are?

Next time you're driving down the highway, and you see a hitchhiker loaded down with a big backpack, maybe a little dirty and scruffy, don't look down your nose at them. Chances are, they're not a mass murderer just waiting for you to pull over so they can kill you and take your car. That hitchhiker is living life on his terms. He is the freest individual you are likely to ever see. Don't feel pity for them either. Feel pity for yourself.