21. Life is half pain and half pleasure. If you can’t enjoy the pain, half your life will be sorrow.

22. Earth is a death world. The living kill and devour their kill and then new life emerges from the leftovers. THAT IS THE REALITY WE ARE BORN INTO. Mother Earth kills her children in diverse and interesting ways with gravity, heat, cold, wind, fire, starvation, dehydration, critters, earthquakes, tsunami, volcanoes, tornados, hurricanes, Illness, disease and accidently on purpose.

23. People lie, are dishonest, cheat, deceive, scheme, burglarize, steal, rob, assault, abuse, fight, imprison, enslave, rape, kill and murder and war when not making love. And in spite of it all and because of it all, people set goals and make plans and the “gods” laugh .... so you might as well laugh with them.

24. Your first breath was a battle-cry, and your last breath will be a sigh, and in-between is mystery, wonder and magic as you spin life’s realities into your own. So mount up, rise to the challenge, engage the adventure for all you are worth, for in old-age and with fond reflection you will realize it was the struggle, the fight and the battle that made life worth living. Yet how serene and peaceful you will be if you engaged the wrath of life with a cheerful heart and vanquished your foes with a smile, a chuckle and a mighty laugh because you now know, life’s insanity was but your own.

25. Life is a struggle for survival in a world where nothing comes easy and all things have a price. Between birth and death you experience disease, accidents, violence and loss. Your actions and the actions of others create conundrums that complicate your days and vex your nights. From rising to setting sun each day is commotion, turmoil and uncertainty. You hope, desire and plan, but in a sudden turn of events your hopes may be crushed, your desires unfulfilled and your plans ruined. As your world disintegrates around you, you realize that many things in life are beyond your control. If the truth were known, you spend many of your days in sorrow even as you hope your future will be endless joy. Yet as time passes you learn that many of your hopes may never be realized and that life is a seething cauldron of perplexities, and overflowing crucible of endless troubles and that change is the only constant.

26. The earth will never satisfy your every desire; never fulfill your every want; never meet your every need; never grant your every wish; never match your every expectation; never agree with your every thought; never submit to your every opinion and never bow to your every judgement, but it will take you unawares, attack you and spit you out on the razor edge of your fears. Though people may plan, work and accomplish many wonderful things, earth’s nature and the nature of some people always try to destroy what others have created. The earth is a beautiful and a marvelous resource and people are often noble and self-sacrificing, yet in an instant the earth can turn violent and take back its resources and men can turn vicious and descend into greed. Thus by nature’s storms and the selfish nature in some men, the world is bathed in blood and tears.

27. Lots of people know that tough life experiences are the breakfasts of champions and nothing can defeat them or take away their winning spirit in the Olympic game of life. They always win because they have a winning attitude.

28. If you refuse to be at peace with what has happened, is happening or will happen you do not understand or do not accept the reality that is life and you are not aware or do not care about the debilitating consequences to your spiritual, mental, emotional and physical health.

29. Expect the best, be at peace with the rest.

30. If your expectations are unrealistic it’s time to get rid of them.

31. You will enjoy all that is life when you decide to enjoy all that is life, and you will enjoy all that is life when you think all of life is worth enjoying.

32. If the universe doesn’t love me, why are there peaches (but what’s with the vegetables)?

If these 200 plus thoughts
don’t help you enjoy life more
- if life still makes you nuts -
consider becoming a squirrel.

33. The value of a thought is in the thinker. Enjoy the ones herein that resonate with you and be at peace with the ones that do not.