153. If you are suffering it’s because your thoughts are at odds with what is happening which is like rolling snake-eyes in the mental crap game of life.
154. If you fight life and the world and kick against the pricks, you will get hurt, lose, and pay a price. The price is your joy, peace and happiness. The price is your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Don’t be a prick kicker.
155. What you think is true, has great power over you, and belief as well, can make your life a living hell, or heaven on earth, depending upon your mirth. You thoughts and beliefs feed your joy or your grief.
156. I’d like to introduce you to Mr. & Mrs. Boohoo. This is what they think: “All we need to be happy is to get everything we want and nothing we don’t want. We want to look perfect and be perfectly healthy. We never want to have an accident and never feel pain. We never want to be bored. We want exciting experiences. We want to be at peace. We want someone to love and someone to love us. We want friends that are supportive. We want respect and freedom and we want to do worthwhile things. We just want the perfect life, and then, and only then, will we be happy. So yes, we want to be born into a loving family, a free country, to never get sick, to have high intelligence, impeccable common sense, world-class talents, movie-star looks, bags full of money, to never be in danger and to never have to deal with mean people. All we need to be happy is to never be denied our every need, want and desire. Certainly that not too much to ask of life.”
157. Mr. & Mrs. Boohoo had five complaints they shared with me, and wanted to know what I thought.
Mr. & Mrs. Boohoo said, “We shouldn’t have done that.”
I said, “But you did and it’s in the past. Learn from it; deal with it’ get over it.”
Mr. & Mrs. Boohoo said, “It’s life’s fault that our lives are screwed-up.”
I said, “No, it’s not! It’s your fault. Life is what it is, day in, day out. Stuff happens. People do things. That’s life. If you think your life is screwed-up, think again. It’s your screwed-up thinking that is screwing-up your life. Quit blaming other people. You have to deal with life the way it is, no matter what it is...so deal with it and get over it and move on.”
Mr. & Mrs. Boohoo said, “That’s not what we wanted.”
I said, “Oooh...you wanted something different. Well guess what, it isn’t different. It is what it is and no one cares what you wanted or what you thought it should be. The only time life gives you what you want is when you want what life gives you.”
Mr. & Mrs. Boohoo said, “Nobody likes us. Nobody helps us. We are suffering and nobody cares.”
I said, “If you’re gonna whine, serve cheese. Stop depending on others. Rely on yourself. If there are no solutions to the things you think are problems, stop thinking of them as problems and think of them as adventures. Accept what IS. Sometimes you actually have to eat what you cooked or what someone else cooked-up for you. And if you’re stuck in the kitchen, do the dishes, and while scrubbing the pots and pans try not to think ‘poor me’ thoughts. The only place they are rewarded is at the ‘Poor Me Oscars’. Try not to get nominated.”
Mr. & Mrs. Boohoo said, “We don’t know what we’re going to do. We are probably going to lose our jobs, our house, our kids and our pet kangaroo.”
I said, “Living in the future complicates the present. If those things happen you will be without your jobs, house, kids and pet kangaroo. Deal with it. By now you should know that the only real freedom you have in life is the ability to choose your thoughts; choose what to think; choose how to look at life; choose your mind-set; choose your point-of-view; choose your attitude. You know you have that power. Try using it wisely, ‘cause you’re driving me nuts.”
158. If I am blue, boohoo or sad and can’t seem to find my glad, I name again my blessings sure and then I am woeful no more. It’s my thought not my circumstance that causes me to slouch or dance. I am aware, compare my place in the life of the human race, and realize I could be off worse if I were molding in a hearse.
