From: gordonbreen623@hotmail.com   
      
   Hello Larry   
      
   Focus on the negative, see the negative, and reinforce the negative.   
   This thinking pattern often causes people to miss the obvious.   
      
   The positive   
      
   Start now, this very moment, think what positive things happened to you   
   today.   
   Don't overlook the small things, if they were positive they count.   
      
   Write each down. When you start this exercise you will find you overlook   
   many positive things.   
      
   Focus on the positive, see the positive, and reinforce the positive.   
   This thinking pattern often causes people to miss the obvious.   
      
   Many of the negatives were not so negative.   
      
   Cause and effect are sometimes not understood when we only see what is   
   happening in the here and now.   
      
   I lost my job. My landlady told me she sold the house. Homeless and   
   unemployed one would say this was a negative day. But it was not. I pick up   
   the phone and told a client that I would no longer be able to help her.   
   Explaining my day, she suggested I move into her spare bedroom. Even   
   unemployed my credit was great. She required a co-signer to get her   
   mortgage. She helped me so I helped her. She owns a home and we have shared   
   it for around 15 years. I went back to school and now own my own company.   
   From my work I have met my best friend between the times we are together or   
   on the phone we spend about 18 hours each month together.   
      
   So read this and say: He so full of Sh##.   
      
   But know this you made a friend today.   
      
   Hope you write again   
      
   G:]   
      
   Friends   
      
   To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he   
   is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and   
   trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of   
   need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. . . . Even the   
   utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for   
   Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in   
   melody.   
   Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week   
   on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, "Wednesday" (1849).   
      
      
      
      
   "Larry"  wrote in message   
   news:2NwLi.736$9F1.446@read1.cgocable.net...   
   >I was always told "if you don't have anything good to say, don't say   
   >anything at all!"   
   > Well, lately I haven't had anything good to say...and each sick day gets   
   > shittier than the last...besides that, who would listen anyways?!?!?!?!?!?   
   >   
   > "Gordon"  wrote in message   
   > news:1191077110_703@sp6iad.superfeed.net...   
   >>I come here waiting and hoping someone else will write anything.   
   >> We could turn this into a community of friends sharing life moments.   
   >>   
   >> So say hello   
   >>   
   >> If enough write we can start something good.   
   >>   
   >> Gentlemen instead of asking for sex the first time a woman writes ask   
   >> about her day.   
   >>   
   >> Ladies tell us something interesting.   
   >>   
   >> Everyone who reads these messages do two things please   
   >>   
   >> First if you know someone who is looking for a place to write more than   
   >> sex ads tell them to write something here.   
   >>   
   >> Second write something yourself. Share any kind of life moment.   
   >> Write a poem   
   >> Tell us about a day with a friend (human, plant or animal)   
   >> Anything we write, is enough to start a conversation   
   >>   
   >> G:]   
   >>   
   >> So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost   
   >> indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.   
   >> Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet.   
   >> Across the Plains, "Lay Morals" (1892).   
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