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This is a way of making myself write something coherent and grammatically correct almost every day. I'm opinionated and need an outlet. I'm also prone to flights of fancy. Thanks for stopping by. |
| It's amazing how much helping someone else can help you. Even in the play "Avenue Q", one of the final songs advises to help others and your life will be better. Once I was friends with a self-centered man who always felt sorry for himself and whined constantly. He groaned about his own family of origin. Now this guy was older than me, and at the time was too old to be fretting about not getting enough attention from his mother in his childhood. I tried not to be rude, but I finally got tired of hearing it. One day I told him to stop feeling sorry for himself and go do some charity. I told him if he saw how other people had to live and what they suffered, maybe he'd feel better about himself. He got really angry at me and told me off. Finally, I stopped taking his calls and wouldn't let him come by any more. He showed up one day with his girlfriend, just as I was going out on a date. I had locked the door, but we couldn't get out the driveway while he was parked there. The girlfriend was obviously embarrassed by his dropping by and not leaving when we were trying to go. A year later he called me at work to tell me he was seeing a psychiatrist. Guess what! The doctor told him to stop feeling sorry for himself and do some volunteer work. His life would feel better. Now he wanted me to know I was right. He couldn't listen to me for free, but had to pay someone with a license on the wall to say the same thing. C. S. Lewis said practice charity even when you don't feel charitable. Do it, and the feelings will come later. So try it. You'll like it. |
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