Mine would be something along the lines of:

Enjoy life. It's the only one you'll get.

I don't really put any more thought into it. As long as I'm happy, I don't really need anything else.

No moment is ordinary

Every moment is special

Nope--your wrong--I have ordinary moments all the time!--must be a generational thing??

It is too bad you see it like that. Many people find every moment to be special and not ordinary at all. Life is full of miracles and wonders, unless you have high expectations. Just open your eyes and appreciate it.

You can NOT become lord over your own nature. (Hungarian proverb. Very true.)

Tough date.

sort of hard to do when you are a guy and want to establish a family.

There are no accidents, a lesson in all things if we allow it...we must learn unconditional love.

You paint too bleak a picture.

Women wield some incredible power over their men when they become their servants in old age.

Aside from having machines do all the chores, and other than starting and ending the machine cycles, there is not much slavery to do. The woman can make the tea, the toast, the bed, or prepare his enema, at any time she wants. She can make a man beg for her mercy without making him realize that he's doing exactly that. A simple "yes dear" or "no dear" from the wife will kill the musroom of resistance from the man when he feels suppressed in attaining his idolized lifesytle that would allow him to eat when he wants to, to go for a nap when he wants to, to go to the washroom when he wants to (Dear, you cannot go in now, I just washed the tiles above hte cabinet), to watch bikini-clad girls play volleyball on the tube when he wants to. Instead, he sits in his Lazee boy chair, feet up, watching tv incessantly, while the wife (who's ten years younger than he from the word "go") can go shopping for groceries, catch up with the girls, flirt with the grocery boy (making him get dry heaves and shindles), accept flirtation from the greengrocer, get a fitting for a new hat, talk to the bread man's wife about how everything is becoming so expensive. After a lifetime of hubby going out and getting entertained at work with competition and socializing, and with learning about the world, while she was stuck at home with three kids whom she lovingly raised, now he's home, stuck with the Lazee boy and the tv, and it's she who goes out into the world, galavanting like some muskateer from Louis XIVth's court.

Then she goes home, to her loving and extremely bored husband, who can only smoke in stealth mode, who can only dream of having some human interaction.

She prepares the meal, he sleeps in front of the set, she serves the meal, he comes into the dining room, and she'll tell him not to slurp, not to eat that fast, not to let out wind during dinner, and all-in-all makes his meal most immemorably miserable. He reaches for the salt-shaker, she says, dear, remember what the doctor told you; he reaches for the sugar bowl, she says dear, remember your blood glucose. He reaches for the cream she says, dear, that's fattening, and he reaches for the cyanide, she says, dear, what would the children say. Yet, in secret, he thanks the dear Lord for his luck of having such a wonderful little wife.

At night,...

Well, you get the picture.

"I will turn your face to alabaster
When you find your servant is your master."

There is a great line in the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

The daughter standing in the hallway with her mother wanted to go to a computer class to learn to operate computers so she can become a travel agent. Her father didn't want this because in his mind tradtionally women are suppose to clean, make babies, and cook food. The men are the ones that work and bring the money. Old traditions what can I say! lol

So anyway the mother said don't worry. I will make him say yes.

She walks into her bedroom were her husband is sitting on the bed and goes - So why can't our daughter go to school. You think she isn't smart enough?

The husband groans in his sleeping outfit (almost pouting)

"Well what is it," she continues.

"It is not that, but what if a man says come here and hold this bag at the subway and it is full of drugs. She will do it. I don't want her out there doing these things.

"So you are saying she isn't smart enough. Well look what I do. I work at the restaurant, I cook, I clean, I take care of the finances. Lucky for you that you can still tie my shoes!"

"Oh okay let her go to that computer class," he says.

So she leaves the room to go to her daughter waiting in the hallway and nods her head approving she can go to the computer course.

She smiles and says to her daughter. "Always remember one thing. The man is the head of the house, but the woman is the neck and we can turn the man's head in any direction we want. Now go to bed." she explains as a lesson.

What do you think?

I was bound up some last week----Nope! not a miracle or wonder-us---just a pain in the a$$. Was in Vietnam in the 60's Not wonder-us at all. none of it---Your still wrong! sorry but living in the real world will do that to ya-----

There are people who live in the poorest countries that do not have basic neccesseties and still can smile and make the best out of their life. I have seen it. I was a Red Cross Worker that has been in war torn nations, poverty, disease inflicted, and hunger regions for over 15 years.

It is how YOU want to see life and deal with the situation in hand and trust me no moment was ordinary, because every moment you breathe air is special.

I have another philosophy which I should make my own, the sooner the better:

"Be humble, don't always be right, life is too short to make others walk on eggshells around me. Lower my expectations, lower my weight, lower my blood sugar levels. Increase my height, increase my respect and love for others, increase my financial throughput. Level my mood, level my outlook, level my voice and flamboyance."

It is rather long, but who am I to say how long a quote should be right.

It is good though. I like it. Good advice

Good for you--I'm proud of you ---Some people smell flowers when they are around dog sh-t. I smell dog sh-t---Keeps me in the here and now

Which reminds me of an African tribe that covers their entire body with ox manure so they won't get infected by a special type of fly that carries the disease. So sh-t(crap) can be a life saver for some of the people in this world.

And I am sure their lives are not ordinary and many treat their lives as special as possible regardless

could be--not me. Wonder how many get sick from ingesting poo from there body's??? Not on topic really but --just wondered.

Live in present,think less watch more

He has other choices.

He can get up and actually do something and stop letting his wife tell him what to do.

It goes both ways.

He could actually cook a meal once in a while, or learn how.

And if you think that just because women have washing machines and dishwashers there is no house work to do then the man should have no problem getting up off the couch and loading the dish washer and washing his own clothes and putting them in the dryer and then hanging them up himself.

Maybe some women enjoy the power they have over their man and visa versa but neither can be free if that is what they desire... to have control or power over the other.