d.: Since Cal.E. is on the lam again,, I would like to take this blog in a different direction today. I want to address some sayings that I believe are either true or false.
"Life is not fair. The fair is where one goes to ride a Ferris Wheel." True, ask any five year old with cancer (or, more accurately, his/her parents). I won't go into depth on this one now, it would take up the rest of my time and space."The Good Lord helps those who help themselves." This is often quoted as a biblical verse. This is not in the Holy Bible. I have read the Holy Bible, Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 five times. No such verse exists in the Holy Bible. Besides, what if you are helping yourself to your neighbor's things? What then? "Do or do not. There is no try!" This is, I believe, is a true statement from the fictional character Yoda. However, I believe that the writers of "Star Wars" may have made the acquaintance of my father at one time. His favorite expression was "Don't try, do." It sounds like the same concept to me. "There is no substitute for hard work." This is both true and false. IF you are engaged in an honorable endeavor, it is noble. However, along the lines of the second statement, some should substitute doing something else for what they are working hard doing now! "Work smart, not hard." Can one not do both? "Repeating the same behavior and expecting a different result is the very definition of insanity." Albert Einstein was a wise man. A wise friend of mine had a different way to say this. "If you observe a certain disturbing behavior once, it is a warning. Twice is a pattern. Three times is a communist parade of red flags. (And if the behavior is observed four times, I believe, it would be VERY insane to keep tolerating it. "Hard work is its own reward." This line is usually uttered when someone is asking for a raise. It either means the asker has not earned the raise or the manager does not have the money to reward the worker's efforts adequately. "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." "Iron Mike" Tyson was not a Rhodes Scholar, but I believe this to be a true statement. Shock has a way of redirecting one's brain waves. That leads me to my main point. "Whatever does not kill me can only make me stronger." A close relative of mine had Hodgkin''s disease twice. The chemotherapy she took to treat the original cancer caused her to have Leukemia. Did the original cancer, which caused the third case, make her stronger? I did hear someone ask her the question, "Would you take chemotherapy again, knowing the effect it had on your body?" Her answer was "No. I have raised my children. I have done my duty." Maybe, the expression should be "Whatever does not kill me can only make me wiser." That, I feel, is a true statement.
This has been d.c. scot, with more food for thought
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