From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)