How about….

Happy Birthday, Alex!!!

How about we realize that just because we may not be able to do something, it doesn’t mean that someone else may not be able to.  Or even if we CAN do it, someone we know and love might do it BETTER than we do! 

How about we be happy for the good things that happen to other people?  Whatever happened (to Baby Jane?) to the idea that we can be happy for other people, and not just for ourselves? 

How about we try to be more understanding of others’ weaknesses and misfortunes? 

How about we encourage people the way we WANT to be encouraged?  Why is it that we feel that we’ve lived through denial of important wants and needs, so others can live without it, too?  So is it okay for them to resent us for denying them the way we resent the ones who denied us?

How about we drop stupidity and learn to be happy?

How about it, folks?  Life is so damned short, and there is PLENTY of misery searching for us.  How about we STOP looking for it?!

Love,

Piers de Corte and everyone else in this body