…“I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.”…
learn to live in each moment and enjoy what ever it brings…
What a load of sentimental tripe. Every time I read one of these ‘work less so you can stop and smell the roses’ things I can’t help thinking that this person was never poor and never had a sick baby at home and no clinic would see him because he didn’t have the right kind of health insurance and the only clinic ON his health insurance had a two week waiting list and rude receptionist who hung up on him saying “It’s not my problem.” I work my butt off so that my family is never in that situation again. Some of us don’t have the luxury to stop and smell the roses. We have this thing called ‘responsibilities’. It’s still in the dictionary, though I don’t know why, ’cause most people don’t appear to need it.
Sorry, just had to rant.
On a positive note, I thank God for government programs like WIC and the people who worked there. It had one of the nicest clinic staffs I’ve ever seen.
Crispy has said it all. Amen
crispy, you’re so right. But you gotta take a DAY, just one day and say “THAT’S IT”. It’s a ME day. You’ll go fuc’n nuts if you don’t. Stress kills more people than smelling the roses does. I could go on a rant ( and may at a later date ) about work, kid, house, yada, yada, yada but if I don’t take a mental health day once in a while for myself….. Oh, wait a minute, I am fuc’n nuts. Everybody at some time feels like that gerbil on the wheel but it’s up to us to stop it. Chill Bud!
“I was sad, because I had no shoes. Until I met a man that had no feet.
So, I took his shoes, cuz hey, he wan’t using them!”
— Jack Handey
I didn’t read it that way at all…I interpreted it to mean take joy in the small things and appreciate the good in your life during the journey.
I’m tracking more with Moochie. Being 63 now, I realize that I should have paid more attention to the positives in my life and less attention to what was maybe in the future.
…“I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.”…
learn to live in each moment and enjoy what ever it brings…
What a load of sentimental tripe. Every time I read one of these ‘work less so you can stop and smell the roses’ things I can’t help thinking that this person was never poor and never had a sick baby at home and no clinic would see him because he didn’t have the right kind of health insurance and the only clinic ON his health insurance had a two week waiting list and rude receptionist who hung up on him saying “It’s not my problem.” I work my butt off so that my family is never in that situation again. Some of us don’t have the luxury to stop and smell the roses. We have this thing called ‘responsibilities’. It’s still in the dictionary, though I don’t know why, ’cause most people don’t appear to need it.
Sorry, just had to rant.
On a positive note, I thank God for government programs like WIC and the people who worked there. It had one of the nicest clinic staffs I’ve ever seen.
Crispy has said it all. Amen
crispy, you’re so right. But you gotta take a DAY, just one day and say “THAT’S IT”. It’s a ME day. You’ll go fuc’n nuts if you don’t. Stress kills more people than smelling the roses does. I could go on a rant ( and may at a later date ) about work, kid, house, yada, yada, yada but if I don’t take a mental health day once in a while for myself….. Oh, wait a minute, I am fuc’n nuts. Everybody at some time feels like that gerbil on the wheel but it’s up to us to stop it. Chill Bud!
“I was sad, because I had no shoes. Until I met a man that had no feet.
So, I took his shoes, cuz hey, he wan’t using them!”
— Jack Handey
I didn’t read it that way at all…I interpreted it to mean take joy in the small things and appreciate the good in your life during the journey.
I’m tracking more with Moochie. Being 63 now, I realize that I should have paid more attention to the positives in my life and less attention to what was maybe in the future.