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So what's your story? Trying to figure out how to be a millionaire before thirty? Wondering if you can stretch an SS check and part time work to cover the bills each month? Are you just happy that such a good looking person is sharing a bed with you every night? Thinking about skimming some credit card accounts for fast cash? Are you looking someone, not necessarily so good-looking, to share an apartment with during weekdays? Maybe you've been at the drawing board all day trying to enhance those new shackles just installed in the basement? Are you dreading the next workday having to face the mother, who's a good friend, of that teenage boy that you "talked" into sleeping with you. Could be that you're really mad now. Mad enough to kill that spineless primate who blew fifteen hundred Christmas dollars on a "sure thing." Got a dream for the disenchanted? Got a warm fuzzy for the dispirited? Are you sitting there with a smile on your face thinking about how exhausted the kids were from playing all day and all the next with their gifts? Yeah.
Jim Valvano said to do three things every day. Laugh. Think. Have your emotions moved to tears. These are good things and we would do well to experience them daily. Valvano has a motto for his cancer research organization: "Don't give up. Don't ever give up." I don't know anyone who didn't get knocked off their original path. I've got two incredibly intelligent cousins. On is a very successful attorney and the other is a neurosurgeon. The neurosurgeon didn't get into his "first choice" medical school and the attorney started off toward medicine. They kept moving. Walt Disney got turned down by over a hundred banks before he finally found one to finance Disney World. Not everyone is going to be Walt Disney, a neurosurgeon, or a successful attorney. That's not really the point. The only thing that should be added to Valvano's three things is this: do something for someone every day.
Me? I'm just enjoying the rain and the view. That's my story (for now).