Greetings good citizen, depending on what social stratum you hail from/become accustomed to the 'festivities' have concluded and yet another year slips into the history books.
Some of you will note I didn't post yesterday, not out of deference to Spirit in the Sky but a commitment to Family First, probably the strongest bond holding our rickety civilization together.
You can't pick your family, you take the package you were given at birth. Conversely, you do get to choose who you associate with but blood is still thicker than water.
Like it or not, you can't 'divorce' family. Even if you 'disown' them they are still YOUR people.
This goes on ad nauseum and I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.
The question 'did you enjoy the holiday?' has as many answers as it does participants...for most of us there were 'great moments' and then there were those that aren't destined for the record books.
Often YOUR great moment was someone else's yawner, so it is that no good deed goes unpunished.
Welcome to that place we call 'the holiday let-down'.
Ironically, the less you put in the less you're 'disappointment factor'. Nobody expects handstands over a Hershey's Kiss but to have the thousands you spent on jewelry being met with a 'less than enthusiastic' reception is disappointing to say the least.
Remember, man plans and fate laughs...[most say god laughs but it's part of the reason I have no truck with spirit in the sky, I have no use for a god that would let a place like this exist.]
Given the general level of 'disappointment' in this literally 'godforsaken place' it speaks volumes regarding the level if dementia the public suffers that we even have 'holy wars'!
While nobody has a 'rational expectation' of winning the lottery, we all groan inwardly when we see the jackpot didn't go [meaning you couldn't possibly win] It also doesn't prevent the sinking sensation one gets when the jackpot does go but the state it went to is on the other side of the nation...meaning you lose again.
Now I'm babbling...and I'm not telling you anything!
[Although it is information 'wasted' on no one.]
The only ones 'immune' to the lottery roller-coaster are those who don't play. [If you don't play you CAN'T WIN...]
One need not dig too deep into the archives to learn what I really think of the lottery. Worse, expose's revealing various 'fixing schemes' lottery officials have foisted only add to the 'stigma' of what many refer to as the 'stupidity tax'.
In reflection I am often, er, 'urinating' upon some thing or another...sort of redefines the whole concept of why can't we have anything nice?
Is this what comes from sharing this existence with a planet loaded with 'opportunists?'
How mad [read insane] is it that we commonly celebrate this vicious trait?
But I digress, not that any of you would/should care but I had a wonderful holiday under the zero in = zero disappointment rationale.
I expected nothing so what little I did get delighted me, the gifts I gave were practical so nobody gave me a 'just what I always wanted' because this was NOT that...although they were 'satisfied' with what they got since they too were 'expecting nothing'.
Want to really get depressed, start reviewing the year that was and compile a list of things you intend to do differently so next year might be more prosperous...which could work providing this year's fiasco isn't due to last year's failed strategizing!
Yup, nothing like the end of the year to sit back, assess and plan what you intend to do to make 2017 'a better year'.
Remember, 'failing to plan' is the same thing as 'planning to fail!'
Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
Some of you will note I didn't post yesterday, not out of deference to Spirit in the Sky but a commitment to Family First, probably the strongest bond holding our rickety civilization together.
You can't pick your family, you take the package you were given at birth. Conversely, you do get to choose who you associate with but blood is still thicker than water.
Like it or not, you can't 'divorce' family. Even if you 'disown' them they are still YOUR people.
This goes on ad nauseum and I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.
The question 'did you enjoy the holiday?' has as many answers as it does participants...for most of us there were 'great moments' and then there were those that aren't destined for the record books.
Often YOUR great moment was someone else's yawner, so it is that no good deed goes unpunished.
Welcome to that place we call 'the holiday let-down'.
Ironically, the less you put in the less you're 'disappointment factor'. Nobody expects handstands over a Hershey's Kiss but to have the thousands you spent on jewelry being met with a 'less than enthusiastic' reception is disappointing to say the least.
Remember, man plans and fate laughs...[most say god laughs but it's part of the reason I have no truck with spirit in the sky, I have no use for a god that would let a place like this exist.]
Given the general level of 'disappointment' in this literally 'godforsaken place' it speaks volumes regarding the level if dementia the public suffers that we even have 'holy wars'!
While nobody has a 'rational expectation' of winning the lottery, we all groan inwardly when we see the jackpot didn't go [meaning you couldn't possibly win] It also doesn't prevent the sinking sensation one gets when the jackpot does go but the state it went to is on the other side of the nation...meaning you lose again.
Now I'm babbling...and I'm not telling you anything!
[Although it is information 'wasted' on no one.]
The only ones 'immune' to the lottery roller-coaster are those who don't play. [If you don't play you CAN'T WIN...]
One need not dig too deep into the archives to learn what I really think of the lottery. Worse, expose's revealing various 'fixing schemes' lottery officials have foisted only add to the 'stigma' of what many refer to as the 'stupidity tax'.
In reflection I am often, er, 'urinating' upon some thing or another...sort of redefines the whole concept of why can't we have anything nice?
Is this what comes from sharing this existence with a planet loaded with 'opportunists?'
How mad [read insane] is it that we commonly celebrate this vicious trait?
But I digress, not that any of you would/should care but I had a wonderful holiday under the zero in = zero disappointment rationale.
I expected nothing so what little I did get delighted me, the gifts I gave were practical so nobody gave me a 'just what I always wanted' because this was NOT that...although they were 'satisfied' with what they got since they too were 'expecting nothing'.
Want to really get depressed, start reviewing the year that was and compile a list of things you intend to do differently so next year might be more prosperous...which could work providing this year's fiasco isn't due to last year's failed strategizing!
Yup, nothing like the end of the year to sit back, assess and plan what you intend to do to make 2017 'a better year'.
Remember, 'failing to plan' is the same thing as 'planning to fail!'
Thanks once again for letting me inside your head,
Gegner
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