Okay Dearest Wiftty,<p>I have printed this up and have it on my fridge in bolded 30 point font. Altho, I must tell you, RULES make me cranky!<p>Thank you Wiftty .. [img]images/icons/smile.gif" border="0[/img] <p>Love,
Jo
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Wiftty's 43 Eternal TruthsConceptualized and Authored by Wiftty, a well respected MB Member<p>1) This is it!
2) There are no hidden meanings
3) You can't get there from here, and besides, there is no place else to go.
4) We are alrady dying, and we will be dead for a lng time
5) Nothing Lasts
6) There is no way of getting all you want
7) You can't have anything unless you let go of it.
8) You only get to keep what you give away
9) There is no particular reason why you lost out on some things
10) The world is not necessarily just Being good often does not pay off and there is no compensation for misfortune
11) You have a responsibility to doyour best nonetheless
12) It is a random universe to which we bring meaning
13) You can't really control anything
14) You can't make anyone love you.
15) No one is any strong or weaker than anyone else
16) Everyone is, in his own way, vulnerable
17) There are no gret men
18) If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished yourself in some way.
19) Everyone lies, cheats, pretends (yes, you too, and most certainly I myself)
20) Allevil is potential vitality in need of transformation.
21) All of you is worht something, if you will only own it.
22) Progress is an illusion
23) Evil can be displaced, but never eradicated, as all solutions breed new problems.
24) yet it is necessasry to keep on struggling toward solution
25) Childhood is a nightmare
26) But it is so very hard to be an
on-yoiur-own, take-care-of-yourself-cause-there-is-no-one-else-to-do-it-for-you
grown up.
27) Each of us is ultimately alone
28) The most important things, wach man must do for himself
29) Love is not enough, but it sure helps
30) We have only ourselves, and one another. That may not be much, but that's all there is.
31) How strange, that so often, it all seems worth it.
32) We must live within the ambiguity of partial freedom, partial power and partial knowledge.
33) All important decisions must be made of the basis of insufficient data.
34) Yet we are responsible for everything we do.
35) No excuses will be accepted
36) You can run, but you can't hide
37) It is most important to run out of scapegoats
38) We must learn the power of living with our helplessness
39) The only vistory lies in surrender to oneself.
40) All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
41) You are free to do whatever you like. You need to only face the consequences.
42) What do you know. . . for sure. . . anyway?
43) Learn to forgive yourself, again and again, and again and again. . . .<p>[ May 02, 2002: Message edited by: Resilient ]</p>
