“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Let's see:
* Global economic collapse
* Terrorism
* Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
* Climate change
* Overpopulation
* Water scarcity
* Poverty
* Species extinction
* Potential meteorite impact
* Oil and gas depletion
Suddenly, the final countdown and its unavoidable consequence does not appear all that bad.
Life is precious to the old person. He is not interested merely in thoughts of yesterday's good life and tomorrow's path to the grave. He does not want his later years to be a sentence of solitary confinement in society. Nor does he want them to be a death watch. - Sampson Brass
BTW -- Happy Birthday To You
“In a world whose absurdity appears to be so impenetrable, we simply must reach a greater degree of understanding among us, a greater sincerity.”
Gee Ray, do you always have to be such a Pollyanna?
ETA:
BTW, ordinarily I am opposed to recycled birthday threads, (if you've made it through another trip around the sun, you're at least entitled to a new thread) however there's a lot of good stuff in the first few posts of this one, so I'll make an exception...