What a heck of a reminder what it's all about. A camel is what you'd come out with if you sat me down to design a racehorse, and life starts looking like that camel sometimes.
Oh yeah here's one for ya-
AA meeting- A whole roomfull of that one in every crowd.
A minister decided that a visual demonstration > would add emphasis to his Sunday sermon. > >Four worms were placed into four separate jars. > > >The first worm was put > into a container of alcohol. > The second worm was put > into a container of cigarette smoke. > The third worm was put into > a container of chocolate syrup. > The fourth worm was put into > a container of good clean soil. > > >At the conclusion of the sermon, > the Minister reported the following results: > > > >The first worm in alcohol - > > Dead. > > The second worm in cigarette smoke - > > Dead . > > > Third worm in chocolate syrup - > > > Dead . > > > Fourth worm in good clean soil - > > Alive. > > >So the Minister asked the congregation - > > What can you learn from this demonstration? > > > > > > > >Maxine was sitting in the back, > quickly raised her hand and said, > >"As long as you drink, > > smoke and eat chocolate, > you won't have worms!" > > > >
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"LOVE" devoid of self-gratification, is in essence, the will, to the greatest good...of another.
Never was a quitter. An understanding deal. Every go around, I've come out still smoking, but knowing a little more truth about myself. And a little more grateful for my sobriety, cause it reminds me how it was, just not to same extremes. I've had the same job for two and a half years now, a record, and I think I just lost it.
Dropped the help off, picked up my daughter, stopped by wal-mart to grab dinner, walked out and the truck was gone. Stood out there in freezing cold with the kid who left her coat at the sitters calling round for a ride, and by the time one got there, I was pretty cross-eyed. And when I got to another phone, I called the bosses house, and his wife answered. He has taken the truck without telling me before, but always when I was at home.
Now the whole time, that small voice, you know, the one with different names in different situations, Wisdom in this one, kept saying 'Hold on to your serenity. This deal is a two way road." So I held on to my serenity, but decided to ignore the two way road deal, I had been made a fool of in the wal mart parking lot. On top of that, I put the first and last nail in half the roofs we do, and most summer and fall ran things alone while he wimped out over a bout of colon cancer. He sure as hell didn't care whether I drove the truck to wal-mart then.
So I let loose a lot of backed up frustration to his wife who egged me on of course. "So your saying half these 'worthless wilburs' don't just quit like he tells everyone, he just doesn't bother picking them up when he doen't need them anymore?" Oh yeah. Laid it on itching ears. And made a fool of myself again, since the parking lot deal wasn't enough. And of course once I got it all out of my system, I could clearly see my other four fingers pointing back at me, and my part in things building up. And other difficulties unrelated to work spilling over and affecting it.
So I'm half broke and jobless till I find someone else that will put up with a mumbling, muttering knuckle dragging roofer who breaks stuff and causes situations if kept indoors very long.
And as I was writing this my boss came by. He didn't take the truck from me. The cops told him it was the easiest truck they'd ever found. It was still in the wal-mart parking lot. His wife is driving him to get it and drop it off to me and I told him I'd be on the roof first thing morning time.
I called the boss about whether we were working tommorrow and mentioned I was going to wal mart for groceries. He said if I loose the truck again, just call him, he'd come help me look for it. And his wife wants to buy me one of those keychain controlled flashing lights for old people.
