INTRODUCTION: I don’t expect these thoughts to change people, however, they do present the mental path one must follow to enjoy continual peace. Peace usually comes with maturity, though many “seniors” are just as immature and get just as upset and angry as a child throwing a fit when life pukes on their parades. These thoughts are for entertainment purposes only. Should you actually see results from embracing them, consider it a miracle of your own making, and remember, the value of a thought is in the thinker, so enjoy the ones that resonate with you and be at peace with the ones that do not.

50. From birth you have been programmed, conditioned, indoctrinated and brainwashed, and if your programs are making you miserable, consider reprogramming yourself.

51. You were born with physical, mental, emotional and character attributes–you arrived programmed. When you were a young child you were trained by your parents, siblings and relatives–you were conditioned. During childhood you were taught to accept certain ideas, concepts and beliefs–you were indoctrinated. In your youth you were disciplined to accept your culture’s and societies’s norms and standards–you were brainwashed. And now as an adult you filter and skew life’s realities through a mind not of your own making. You are a product of your times, an issue driven, drama intense, pain-filled thinker that lives through your programming. If you think clearly at all, you are the exception, not the rule, because almost everyone lives by the rules–THEIR PROGRAMMING.

52. From conception to adulthood people have been downloading their programs (their beliefs and opinions) into you, and unless you have altered, replaced or removed them, you are running your life with other people’s programs. Where is the real you?

53. Whatever program you are running determines your perspective, viewpoint, opinions, judgements and world view, which all determine how and why you run your life the way you do, so if you are not at peace, joyful and happy with your life, your program sucks.

54. Your thoughts don’t make you, they reveal you. If you don’t like what they reveal change your thoughts and become a new you.

55. Until you stop crying about what your life isn’t and start enjoying what your life is, you will be miserable every time life doesn’t go your way.

56. Knowledge, understanding and wisdom is the growth all seek but only an open mind obtains them.

57. If you are comfortable with your beliefs and faith, consider your comfort a warning. Belief and faith are tools to obtain knowledge, understanding and wisdom, not substitutes for them.

58. Be believing but test your beliefs in the fire of experience.

59. I used to let my mind run wild, untamed, unruly like a child. I didn’t know my mind’s a tool, that makes me wise or a fool. I started watching every thought, banished the foolish ones I caught. Mean thoughts that will not leave my mind I replace with other kinds. Two thoughts at once no one can play no matter what women may say.

60. When you love people you want them to be happy. When you love people you say and do things to make them happy. When you love people you serve their joy, peace and happiness.

61. What I thought is what I got and what I got I thought. Wise am I if I don’t blame an outside cause that’s not.

62. When it’s a done deal, when it’s a fact, and I can’t undo it because that’s that, I have two choices: I can resist that which I can’t change, get upset and angry, condemn and cast blame, or I can surrender in that moment in time and cope with it clearly with presence of mind.

63. If I am blue, boohoo or sad and can’t seem to find my glad, I name again my blessings sure and then I am woeful no more. It’s my thought not my circumstance that causes me to slouch or dance. I am aware, compare my place in the life of the human race, and realize I could be off worse if I were molding in a hearse.
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1-49 HUMANS ARE NUTS

1. You might be nuts if you think life was designed to personally torment and torture you–it wasn’t. It was designed to torment and torture everyone, but not everyone boobs about it.

2. In the “nut” category are people whose life’s goal is to complain their way to happiness. These people are crybabies who require a never ending supply of pacifiers to be content and happy, and if they don’t get them they have emotional zit fits.

3. If you are a crybaby (and at the astronomical chance that you want to quit moaning and groaning when not having sex) I have the cure. I know the cause and I’ll try to be kind presenting it even though you don’t know where I live.

4. Why am I trying to help crybabies stop having brain implosions? Because they’re everywhere and I’m too young to live alone in a cave, and curing them is one way of reducing their population (since hunting them is illegal). If there were fewer crybabies I would go to social gatherings again (at such events I used to say, “Would you like some cheese with that whine?” Now I don’t go). If you say I have issues with crybabies then you’d also have to say I have issues with getting cornered by a rattlesnake, but I don’t, because rattlesnakes will warn you before they strike–usually.

5. If you live with a crybaby you’ve learned to walk on egg shells. Most people have reasons for allowing crybabies to torture them, which is lucky for the crybabies because otherwise they would be instant omelets.

6. Being a crybaby is not as bad as being an emotional-drama-pimp. However, if there are energy vampires, crybabies get more suck per mile than any other suckers.

7. Crybabies have firecrackers for brains and everyone they meet carries a lit match, and if you cross them they will ignite and explode in a New York minute–which is about 3 seconds (when that happens I say, “Please excuse me if I don’t hang around for the show. I have to go throw myself on a cactus”).

8. Most people would rather watch reruns of reruns of bad sequels than face the wrath of a crybaby who didn’t get what it wanted.

9. There are as many different types of crybabies as there are broken pacifiers.

10. Sneaky crybabies are like Halloween tricker-treaters pretending to be who they are not. It isn’t until after they are in a relationship that they take off their masks and you realize you’ve been tricked–and you’re the treat!”

11. Whiney crybabies pollute a room like a spraying skunk. Whiners dispense disharmony when they pout, mope and sulk. They lack appreciation and are so self-centered they think other humans were invented to serve them.

12. Fault-finding crybabies judge and condemn. They may not mean to hurt people, yet their walk and talk creates gloom and doom, and, they’re often meanspirited just for the miserable fun of it. If it’s your misfortune to run into one (and you will) hopefully your car wasn’t hurt, you won’t be as lucky.

13. Mean crybabies are cruel, and enjoy hurting people. They get off mentally and emotionally pushing and pulling you down. On the playground of life they are the bullies from hell bent for a bruisin’.

14. Con Artist crybabies use their minds, emotions and bodies to trick, bamboozle and manipulate people and situations. They lack empathy and think it’s funny to pour gasoline on a cat, light it up and ignite a neighborhood.

15. The most common sound of the crybaby species in the wild is, “LIFE ISN’T FAIR!”

16. When a baby is born it gets spanked and cries. Adult crybabies never got over it. They just keep on crying.

17. Crybabies are illogical, unreasonable and disconnected from reality (and those are their good points).

18. There are real crybabies and fake crybabies. Real crybabies are born with bad-baggage. They are naturally prideful, arrogant, self-important, overbearing, insulting, abusive, vain, conceited, in love with themselves to much, egotistical, narcissistic, begrudging, resentful, envious, jealous, and greedy (other than that they are jerks). Fake crybabies are not nearly as bad. They’ve been programmed to fear life. They think life is out to get them (which it is) thus they are nervous, stressed, high-strung and their own worst enemy.

19. The U.S.A. has become the Crybaby Capital of the World. Maybe we should all be crybabies about crybabies (I’m doing my part by boobing about them) while accepting the reality that they actually do for real exist and, that we have to deal with them whether we like it or not.

20. If you are a crybaby, try accepting the reality that is life and quit being afraid that life will hurt you and kill you (it will) but quit boobing about it. When something happens that you don’t like, deal with it intelligently, then let go, get over it and move on. If you do that, “Welcome to the ‘real’ world where life is what it is.” (End of rant)

( I don’t expect these thoughts to change people, however, they do present the mental path one must follow to enjoy continual peace. Peace usually comes with maturity, though many “seniors” are just as immature and get just as upset and angry as a child throwing a fit when life pukes on their parades. These thoughts are for entertainment purposes only. Should you actually see results from embracing them, consider it a miracle of your own making, and remember, the value of a thought is in the thinker, so enjoy the ones that resonate with you and be at peace with the ones that do not).

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

22. Earth-Life: 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 make 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)?

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

34. If you were for sale would anyone buy you? How much would you pay for you?

35. If you are afraid to die, you are afraid to live.

36. If you are up-happy when you get what you want and down-sad when you don’t, you’re a yo-yo. Cut the string!

37. What you believe has power over you.

38. Your thoughts are the chains that bind you ... or free you.

39. To earth your bound; your journey to commence. Take with you this dictum sound into a world of recompense: HOW YOU VIEW THE WORLD IS YOUR WORLD.

40. Did your thoughts not help to make the person that is YOU? Of the thoughts you could have thought who else but you did choose? Like a seed your every thought produces fruit in kind. Either you are victim of or master of your mind.

41. You cannot change what is or what was, but you can help determine what will be. Once something has happened, you cannot change it, and if you refuse to accept it, your misery is assured.

42. I had my heart set on it. My mind said this way must be. Then faster than an eagle life took it away from me. I learned by my experiences, gained understanding to know, life will break the strongest heart of a mind that is set in stone. I now put my heart into it, but on it my heart’s not set, and my mind like the eagle soars free and without regret.

43. There are many things in life you cannot control, but your thoughts are not one of them.

44. If your thoughts are not the master of your fate and you the master of your thoughts, who is?

45. To master your mind and take control of your life you must be the watcher of your thoughts.

46. Is it fun being you? Is it fun being with you? It is if you are cheerful, playful, light-hearted, easy going, positive, carefree, enthusiastic, happy, at peace and joyful. It isn’t if you are depressed, overly serious, down in the dumps, concerned, sorrowful, negative, complain, find fault, pessimistic and a jerk.

47. If you only enjoy life when it meets your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual needs, wants and desires you won’t be enjoying life much.

48. If you are only at peace when life indulges your hopes, beliefs, faith, values, opinions and expectations you won’t be at peace much.

49. Feel life; Don’t think it. Live life; Don’t interpret it. Surrender to life; Don’t fight it. If life gives you a flat tire, you can think it: “Stupid tire.” You can interpret it: “Why did it go flat?” You can fight it: Kick the tire. Better to surrender to WHAT IS and change the tire and get on with your life.