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To: Gauguin who wrote (47128)	2/21/2000 9:23:00 AM
From: CharleyMike	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Monday, Geeeez, Monday. Good thing I went up to the lake this weekend. If I'da been home reading DAR I probably would have joined in with the sky is falling discussion. Woke up Sunday with overcast skies, lake water down so low you can walk around the pier, thousands of blackbirds swooping back/forth over the deck, cleaned the boat, charged the batteries (both mine & the boat)came back to town thinking how lucky I am. Never been to an AA meeting. Probably ain't an alcoholic. But somewhere read/heard/osmosed a couple of their tenets. Primarily ~ Change the things you can and accept that there are things you can't. ( Syntax most likely wrong - gist most likely right) Politicians have never listened to people like me. We don't contribute to their campaigns. We don't gather in large enough groups to influence anyone. We don't particularly like crowds. I can't change politics. I don't much care for the whole stinking mess. But, they ain't Josef, or Adolf, or Vlad the impaler ~ so I just accept those we got. Depression ~ are we talking 'clinical' depression here? Those who severely need medical assistance ~ people who have so much difficulty coping with life that someone has to wipe their butts for them? Then take care of those folks. If not, maybe we should change those things we can ~ our attitudes, outlooks, ways of thinking ~ so that we are less prone to get all depressed ~ I can't think of anything accomplished by depression (except maybe some exceptional art) I start each day with a trip to antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov That helps me to worry less about meaning in life. It helps me to get on with the process of living and accept that not only I am inconsequential, but so is all the rest of humanity. Yet ~ yet ~ yet ~ we seem to be driven to believe that we're special, that we're going to change the face of the world, that the universe revolves around us. Getta' grip, guys. Life is life. You can enjoy it or you can worry yourself into a depression over it. Ol' Master told me once: "Ya only gotta' know three things. Ya gotta' know what ya' know. Ya gotta know what ya' don't know. And ya' gotta' know the difference." See! I can rant, too . . . . .