October 07, 2025

Striving to make things better makes things worse
in a lot of ways. The moral of this story is to sit it out.
Ride it out. Bear the pain. And the best way to do that  
is to develop a sense of humor. The people in the worst pain
rarely have anything in the way of a sense of humor. And just
because comedians kill themselves doesn't mean they they had
a sense of humor and it didn't do them any favors. There are
comedians who make their way laughing at other people, never
at themselves. The joke is on us more often than we can bear.
Gets to us after a time. Having enough is all it takes. Having
a short fuse is not a good start to a long and happy life. So,
where do we go to get the right attitude? Everybody thinks the
way they see things is the right way to see things. No one thinks the problem could be with the way they see things. Take 
the people with money, for instance. The multi-billionaires whose problem is that they have more money than they know what 
to do with, and they think, "Why am I miserable with all of this money lying around?" And they start thinking of ways to buy happiness, and begin, say, with a few Supreme Court justices. And maybe a few members of Congress. That ought to do it. The problem is that they have confused having what they want with being happy. There is no correlation at all. But they cannot understand that. All their life they have confused having what they want with happiness everlasting. That's the way they see things. And that's the way they think things are. If you want to be happy everlasting, start with the way you see things. Change that first. Everything falls into place around that. Just sit down and start changing your mind about what is important and keep doing that until happiness everlasting moves in with you. It probably won't take long. Of course, it will be longer than you want it to be, but nowhere near as long as you are afraid it will be. Everybody owes it to themselves to find out how long it takes sitting it out, riding it out, bearing the pain before happiness at last comes calling. Patience comes to those who wait.