Comments on: Rules Of Life

By: Stephen G

Stephen G — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:17:05 +0000

Not at all ‘me ol’ mucker’! :- )

I was about to launch in to a nice delicate exploration of subtle cultural differences in humor etc…and now you’ve gone all nice and wrecked it! :- P

Have to save that one for another day then…

Cheers

Stephen G

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:14:57 +0000

So many people believe that life is about being happy or always being in some sort of elevated bliss – albeit not from drugs. But this is the way I look at it: it’s always the hardest parts of my life that I remember the most. And from those moments I learn the most. So, a part of me tries to find a certain amount of joy from the struggles in my life.

There’s Socrates who said that true joy and true pleasure came from the absence of pain. So, if we are not to feel pain, then pleasure will become unnoticeable. Emily Bronte, in her poem “Remembrance,” learned how to enjoy life without the aid of joy. She learned how life could be strengthened and fed without it. I think somewhere in there is a philosophy that can help. Learn to enjoy the pain, not to mention the joy which does rear her pretty head from time to time, and you’ve got life mastered.

By: spikethelobster

spikethelobster — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:31:18 +0000

Ummm, OK. I have to apologise. I just spent four days dealing with a MASSIVE amount of negativity (from a suicidal friend) and it finally caught up with me. Steven, your post wasn’t horribly negative and all that: I just re-read it and realised how off-kilter I was until just this afternoon. Please accept my apologies, old fruit!

By: spikethelobster

spikethelobster — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:17:03 +0000

DaDuck: I always played Alliance. I found it easier to put up with 15-year-olds rabbiting on about their rogue’s awesomeness than all the back-biting and superiority complexes on the Horde side. Miss some of my guildies, but I’d kinda played out most of the content, since I was never a dungeon-crawler.

Steven: That was all rather negative, old bean! It’s hard to build anything on foundations of darkness, disagreement and perpetual cynicism, you know – and when it’s built, nobody will want to live there.

By: Steven

Steven — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:49:26 +0000

It sounds like wisdom from the wise and toothless one.

For #10 – I think Captain Ishmael would have done well to give up on getting his whale.

#9 – When you think you’ve had a rotten day and that things couldn’t get any worse, this helps put life in perspective: http://raincabinet.blogspot.com/2009/06/prose-locker-59-now-theyre-even.html

When I try to consider how rough my childhood was, I like to look at this picture: http://nynerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/vulture-waits-for-child-to-die.jpg

#7 – People who try to know everything are usually pretentious.

#6 – I’m not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.

#5 – Michael Phelps, the world’s record holder for Olympic gold medals for swimming would lose to a common goldfish in a race. You have to recognize your strengths and feel free to say what they are. That’s called confidence.

#4 – It’s all good to have the child still alive and kicking within your breast, but it’s also good to also have an adult to supervise. And, as annoying as the neighbor’s kids are, they’re not half as annoying as their parents.

#3 – No one cares if they’re ridiculous at the time. It’s only after sobriety sinks in that the subsequent ridicule comes from everyone, for the rest of your life.

#2 – While I’d love to be the judge of myself, there are people out there who can put me in jail for my actions.

#1 – Lists suck. Life rocks.

By: DaDuck

DaDuck — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:00:52 +0000

Yep, a lock. Why I didn’t pick an undead rogue like everyone else is beyond me:P

By: Stephen G

Stephen G — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:46:37 +0000

I can hear all those new age ‘affirmations’ turning in their positive-ion-free graves :- )

Blessed be the cynics! For they shall inherit THE LAST LAUGH. Geez! I hope we do :- P

No ’boutadoubtya’ Spike…you are…what’s the word?…Oh! There isn’t one! Best make something up…just make sure it’s not too self complimentary ;-P

These remind me of a couple of my old favourites like:

“Remember, no matter where you go, there you are!” – Buckaroo Bonzai 1984

and

“Diplomacy defined – the ability to tell someone to go to Hell & have them look forward to the trip!” – The back of the Dunny Door at my old friends house back in the late 80′s.

And my favourite counseling line (which you allude to above): “Get over it by Wednesday” – Ok! That was on the back of a different Dunny Door. Is this painting a picture that I’m full of something other than words? :- )

Nice one Spike…I gotta go…’Out There’!

Cheers

Stephen G