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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 1364428" data-attributes="member: 9410">What's good about life?Love.  Joy, peace, longsuffering (although it doesn't feel like it, when YOU'RE the one going through it), gentleness, meekness, self-control, faith...Friendship."What's good" is an awfully subjective thing, though...  Some of the ones I like include:Summer rains,sunlight,clear, starry nights,breezes,warm, happy smiles,honest laughter,KITTENS!,Cats,Pizza,Hugs,Smooches,Grace (unmeritted favor),Seeing long-lost friends, again,Making new friends,Pretty girls (although I guess "cute guys" works for some people),Good books,Quiet places,Streams,Warm fires, when it's damp,Hot tea (on a cold day),Iced tea (on a hot day),Diet Coke with my (hot) pizza......and combinations of the above work well, too...  Like getting together somewhere with old friends, meeting some new ones (one of whom is a pretty girl), having some diet coke and pizza, then sitting in a breezy, sunlit place to watch a cat and her kittens, and later building a fire by the stream and sitting back to watch the stars...Of course, your tastes may vary from mine...I don't know what you're feeling guilty about, you didn't say.  It can't be for feeling terrible...  Y'wanna talk about it?You need to keep waking up, every day, for a lot of reasons.  Because your Mom loves you.  Because God loves you.  Because your friends love you, and would miss you, and wonder why you decided to leave them.  Because they'd feel bad, too, and wonder why Uz didn't tell us what was wrong, before...  And then maybe some of them would feel the same way you do, now...Because, while there's life, there's always hope.  It's hard to see it, in the dark, in the middle of the night, but then... it's hard to see ANYTHING, in the dark!  Sooner or later, though, the Elven battlecry rings true: "Aure enteluva!"; "Day shall come, again!"...And suddenly, the world seems much brighter...IMHO, Kai Lord had some good advice.  If things seem so broken that they can't be fixed, try taking them to the Master of Broken Things, before throwing them away as useless and broken.Haveya heard the story of the auctioneer, holding up the old fiddle?  Thought he'd be lucky to get five bucks for the beat up old thang...  He started the auction, and was getting low bids, like he thought.  Then a Master Violinist stands up, comes forward, rosins up the bow, and plays on the beat up old violin...  And the price jumps.What made the difference, some in the audience ask?  The touch of the Master's hand, the talespinner replies...More down to earth, there was once a broken-down old folding table, sitting in the trash-heap, waiting for the garbage truck to come along and take it to the dump...  Along comes Ranger Rick, and sees it sitting there.  He sees the extendable legs on the table, and thinks "Hey, I could make a hiking stick out of that!", so he carefully removes it, fixes it up, and carries it with him, to this day.It's no longer a folding table, but it has a new use.  One a table leg would never dream of...  Is it happier?  (Heh!)  It's a table-leg-cum-hiking-stick!  What does it know?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />   In any case, it didn't go to the dump, and it's serving a perfectly good use, even if it isn't holding up a pile of stuff on a table!Given my 'druthers, I'druther be the hiking stick!   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Anyway, I notice you haven't posted in a while...  I wish you would, so we know you're still okay...  If you want to tell us what's up with you, and why you're feeling guilty, that'd be great.  If not, well, that's okay...  Post anyway!So, what's goin' on withya?  Are you okay?   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /></blockquote>

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