From: bimbim14@msn.com   
      
   On Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 11:06:51 AM UTC-7, Dick Silk wrote:   
   > On Sunday, June 28, 2015 at 1:42:26 AM UTC-5, abbeynormal wrote:   
   > > in retrospect, I wish I had succeeded then. woulda saved me a bunch of   
   ungood.   
   >    
   > *YEARS* ago, back in the BBS days (*before* AOL!) there was a person who   
   bemoaned their condition relentlessly, contemplating suicide and all those   
   other negative acts.  I said (wrote): "Go ahead and just do it!  No one wants   
   to hear you sit around and    
   complain all day" (or words to that effect.)  We never heard from that person   
   again.   
   >    
   > These days, I have a slightly different, if not perhaps "better"   
   perspective:  In the South, we have a saying: "It's all good." -- basically,   
   it's saying (in math terms) that:   
   > Life = |Life|   
   > If you know anything about absolute values, you know that whether an   
   experience is good *or* bad, whether a number is positive *or* negative, it's   
   "absolute value" is positive.  Whether you own $5 or owe $5, the absolute   
   value of   
   > {+\-} $5.oo is |+/-$5.oo| = $5.oo    
   >    
   > So if you apply that to Life, then no matter *what* you experience, it   
   *adds* to your experience, and therefore, is good.  "It's all good."  Try it   
   for a week and see if your life improves.   
   have been doing that, life has not improved but at least I find some redeeming   
   educational qualities about it that I hope to apply to my next lifetime.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)