Everybody Hurts (day one/take three)

Sometimes,

It can seem like everyone around you is so blessed, that you might feel slighted or even cursed. But I warn you as a friend do not compare! This is a trap that is as dangerous as.... Well as a metaphor that only further clouds the truth rather than revealing it more clearly. As I was enticed to do, just a moment ago. (damm you Dennis Miller) I think I have, in the past, made it clear that I am of the belief that our understanding of life comes from the relative perspectives that we all drive around in day to day. And that the universe exists differently for each of us. Since without the observer there could be nothing observed and some observers wear yellow sunglasses, bingo bango two completely different views on the universe. lol. Now seriously back to blessings and curses. (oh did I not mention curses yet?) "One man's trash is another man's treasure" Perspective right? Exactly, one man yearns for great riches, and yet only the men with great riches know the curse of keeping it. The deceit, theivery and envy that goes along with great wealth. All to be feared and fought against, that it is a struggle to keep a great treasure safe is like a consuming fire until the joy of it is lost. Now of course I'm not speaking from experience here, I'd still like to struggle to keep my great wealth rather than be poor. Yep poor that's me. Poor me. Bullsh^t! I was driving my Jujitsu instructor home from training the other night, because he has been having car troubles. And I talked about how I too would really like to driver a newer and nicer automobile. And then in the silence that followed, as I realized that my car was running smoothly, cruising down the highway. And laughing at myself, I commented on how I seeing and hearing so many over cars on the road that are in worse shape than mine. Why do I feel like my car is so bad? And my friend put it very clearly, "hey the guy driving in the real shitbox wants to be where you are. And you want to be where the next guy is."

Brilliantly put. It's the progression of struggling through to achieve standards of living I guess. The lie that makes "cost of living increases" appear to make sense and makes our "minimum wage" a joke.
Anyway I just had a friend tell me she broke up with her boyfriend and it made me think that even when I feel that everyone else is blessed in my life except me, they are and they aren't. And I am blessed and I'm cutting this short now because My computer has crashed on me three times this morning and I can't take it any more!!!! (take three)

(Day one)=I don't want to smoke cigarettes anymore....
Lets see how we do.
Brad