Words to Live By

There have been many people creating many sayings that either define or motivate us.  Like this example of a Successories poster.

Or the famous (infamous) quote from a girl on Christmas Day in a stable, looking for her present:  "There is so much shit here, there has to be a pony somewhere!"

I was chatting to a friend yesterday talking about life in general, and I came up with this almost Buddhist saying.

"A man who must define how he wins, has never been in a situation where he has lost." 

Now don't go all Trump on me and say that anyone who really applies themselves can never lose.  I do not buy that load of crap.  Losing is part of learning.  You got to fall off the bike before you know how to ride it.  The whole "get back up on the horse" thing.  Personally, I will never get back up on a horse, or come anywhere close to a horse since that one time in Virginia when we rode horses and (this was way, way before Claritin or even Benadryl) I learned the hard way that I was allergic to horses.  Really bad allergic.  Mom and Dad left me and Suzann there at some dumb-ass farm house in the middle of Bum Fuck Nowhere Virginia with a black and white TV that the closest station was 100 miles away and it was NBC (and what the fuck was on NBC on a Saturday night in the 70's?  Nothing.  At. All.) and all I did all night was sneeze because the only drug store in this God forsaken place had only something stupid like some asthma shit, and of course, this wasn't asthma, it was a goddamn allergy!

Oh, did I go off on a tangent?  Imagine that.

So don't give me that stuff about winning.  Go tell that to that dickhead Charlie Sheen.

Here is another saying of mine that I believe all of you can relate to.

"No expectations, no letdowns."

Steve hates this one.  But it is prophetic (not pathetic) in so much as if you enter any situation, like visiting your father and his wacko wife, or going to the bar with the intent of getting laid, or hell, going to work every morning, if you open your mind and have no expectations of what will occur, then you won't be let down. 

Look back on your life when you thought something was absolutely positively going to happen.  And it didn't.  You were heartbroken, you were mad, you were pissed.  If!!  If you didn't have those expectations, then you wouldn't have felt that bad.  Imagine that child in the stable, covered with shit.  If she had not expected a pony, then when she didn't find it, she would have been satisfied with her Malibu Barbie.