life?

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  Enjoy the ride. There is no return ticket.

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   George Carlin on aging!
   (Absolutely Brilliant)
   IF YOU DON’T READ THIS TO THE VERY END, YOU HAVE LOST A DAY IN  YOUR LIFE. AND WHEN YOU HAVE FINISHED, DO AS I AM DOING AND  SEND IT ON.
  
   George Carlin’s Views on Aging
  
   Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to  get old is when we’re kids? If you’re less than 10 years old,  you’re so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
  
   ’How old are you?’ ‘I’m four and a half!’ You’re never thirty-six and a half. You’re four and a half, going on five!  That’s the key.
  
   You get into your teens, now they can’t hold you back. You jump  to the next number, or even a few ahead.
  
   ’How old are you?’ ‘I’m gonna be 16!’ You could be 13, but hey,  you’re gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life! You  become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony.YOU BECOME 21.  YESSSS!!!
  
   But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you  sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out.  There’s no fun now, you’re Just a sour-dumpling. What’s wrong? What’s changed?
  
   You BECOME 21, youTURN 30, then you’rePUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on  the brakes, it’s all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50, and your dreams are gone…
  
   But! wait!! ! You MAKE it to 60. You didn’t think you would!
  
   So you BECOME 21,TURN 30, PUSH 40,REACH 50, and make it to 60.
  
   You’ve built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that, it’s  a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
  
   You get into your 80’s, and every day is a complete cycle; you  HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn’t end there. Into the 90s, you start going backwards; ‘I Was JUST 92.’
  
   Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you  become a little kid again. ‘I’m 100 and a half!’
   May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!
  
   HOW TO STAY YOUNG
   1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight  and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you  pay them.
  
   2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
  
   3.Keep learning.  Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever, even ham radio. Never let the  brain idle. ‘An idle mind is the devil’s workshop.’ And the  devil’s  family  name is  Alzheimer’s.
  
   4. Enjoy the simple things.
  
   5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
  
   6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only  person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE  while you are alive.
  
   7. Surround yourself with what you love , whether it’s family,  pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.Your home is your refuge.
  
   8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get  help.
  
   9. Don’t take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the  next county; to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt  is.
  
   10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
   AND, ALWAYS REMEMBER:
   Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
   

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   Life’s journey is not to
   arrive at the grave safely
   in a well preserved body,
   but rather to skid in sideways,
   totally used up and worn out, shouting
   ’…man,what a ride!’

i know your type.
you have a poet’s soul.
you’re mysterious, eloquent,
intelligent, witty.
a little bit different,
unique, artsy
you bring a new perspective
make us aware of things
that we take for granted.

i know your type.
you are beautiful,
vast and magnetic.
not enough people notice that.
you deserve more credit,
more love for your art.
your words are everything
but sometimes not enough.

i know your type.
i love you
and everything about you.
for once, let that be enough.

I Like You When You Are Quiet

I like you when you are quiet because it is as though you are absent, 
and you hear me from far away, and my voice does not touch you. 
It looks as though your eyes had flown away 
and it looks as if a kiss had sealed your mouth.

Like all things are full of my soul 
You emerge from the things, full of my soul. 
Dream butterfly, you look like my soul, 
and you look like a melancoly word.

I like you when you are quiet and it is as though you are distant. 
It is as though you are complaining, butterfly in lullaby. 
And you hear me from far away, and my voice does not reach you: 
let me fall quiet with your own silence.

Let me also speak to you with your silence 
Clear like a lamp, simple like a ring. 
You are like the night, quiet and constellated.
Your silence is of a star, so far away and solitary.

I like you when you are quiet because it is as though you are absent. 
Distant and painful as if you had died. 
A word then, a smile is enough. 
And I am happy, happy that it is not true.

One Fine Day

One fine day 
    About midnight 
Two dead soldiers 
    Got in a fight. 
Back to back 
    They faced each other. 
Drew their swords 
    And shot each other. 
A deaf policeman 
    Heard the noise. 
Came out and 
    Killed the two dead boys. 
If you don’t believe 
    This lie it’s true. 
Ask the blindman 
    He saw it too. 

I Met A Genius

by Charles Bukowski

I met a genius on the train
today
about 6 years old,
he sat beside me
and as the train 
ran down along the coast
we came to the ocean
and then he looked at me
and said,
it’s not pretty.

it was the first time I’d 
realized 
that.

Catherine the First of Russia, made a rule that no man was allowed to get drunk at one of her parties before nine o’clock.

In the 1970’s, the Rhode Island Legislature in the US entertained a proposal that there be a $2 tax on every act of sexual intercourse in the State.