In celebration of being alive..

My friend showed me a book today "Don't sweat the small stuff at work"..a cute little book that essentially strives to point to people what they ought to know themselves...it just doesn't pay to be stressed out and in conflict all the time. The book implores us all to work together to bring out the best in us and others...

In short, what I call...celebrate us being alive.

Life is a sweet little thing..you can do fun little things and you can do fun big things...you can screw up a $2000 PC (aw shucks you say? well its still a device and can be repaired. so if you screwed it up, so what? just be careful the next time around) or you can repair a $20 roller-ball computer mouse. you can eyeball a supermodel or you can go and marry the homely girl-next door type..you can treat the entire apartment block to your best dessert...or you can make your friend treat you to the best Haagen Dazs icecream there is.

It is about appreciating the beauty in the dew drop on the leaf of a plant in your front yard. It is in taking a hike up that desert mountain trail to view the glorious sunset that graces the western skies. It is in staying up at midnight in a campsite to see hundreds of meteorites and cometoids zoom by in brilliant flashes of light.

Life comes at you with dazzling variety of things to do and see and appreciate and learn from. That usually does not include the theme parks or movie studios but it sure can include that visit to San Diego to see dolphins at their prankster best.

Life is for all of us to share and enjoy...it is in having a few friends over for a quiet spot of dinner and talk..it is in having the same group of friends go over to a restaurant and become the boisterous center of racket (and by extension center of attention as well :) )

There is more to life than carrying along petty differences and egos. It is not worth your while or my while for us to hold grudges against each other. More importantly it is always worth your while to smile and make someone's day.

Let us make this world an easier place to be in...one person at a time.