Half baked

Why do they say 'easy as pie'?
How is pie so easy that it got that distinction?

Have you tried baking a pie?

It’s actually one complex little pastry! There's no combining of ingredients, dashing it into a pan and baking it to a delicious death black. It's a small science of getting the base just right, mixing the right fruity mix (or meat if you’re so inclined) and popping the crusty lid on and baking it an even golden brown!

Surely it should be as easy as say, pancakes! Or toast! Or something that is well, easy to make!

 (I'm pretty sure they also don't mean 'as easy as Pi' cause that takes the saying to whole new decimal point of uncertainty!)

Best I can recommend is gathering up a furrowed brow, a calculator and tasty baked good and then sitting back and pondering this interesting piece of Pie-losophy!

Crank them sunbeams up a notch!

Think about your average pessimist.

Their premise for being all sour and glower is that, "If I expect the worse to happen, then if it does I knew it was coming, and if it doesn't, then I'm happy because it was unexpected."

What a load of crock!

The average pessimist looks for the bad in everything!! They’re persistent little buggers that never know when to quit!

 And when they find anything less then wonderfully blissful they're like, "Haha, yay! This world is every bit as crappo as I thought!" and when something good happens they're not suddenly all daffodils and light, they're more, "Please it was a freak occurrence, pot luck, won't happen again!" or they get all disbelieving and end looking up it’s skirt to see where the catch lies!

Now see every pessimist I ever met told me they were a realist.

What reality exactly though they forget to mention!

 So this is my view on why being an optimist thrashes pessimism into the ground!

 (Oh and first off, don't think I mean those madly crazy, suspiciously American looking, optimists who are being held over a flaming pit and still think, "Hey at least I'll feed a bunch of starving cannibals!", there are limits to everything!)

But mr / ms. average optimist simply hopes for the best and enjoys the journey to find out!

And we ARE NOT flaming loons of cheer and psychotic good will, we do know that the worse can happen and that it’s good to be prepared all the same.  But see why, oh why, if you cant see the future, be glum your whole life expecting tragedies that seldom happen? Why not be happy and hope for the best and keep your spirits up? That way if the best happens then it just continues the awesome vibes and if the worst happens then at least you had all that fun and calm before hand! Why get the worst AND still have a lousy time waiting for it?

My point exactly!!

 Optimists are fun to be around! They bounce back from the bad better (and use fantastic alliteration!), they keep your spirits up, they’re willing to continue believing in the awesomeness of the world, they make you smile and feel good about yourself and they’re usually a lot of fun to beat at cards!

Look, we optimists have times when we're pessimistic as well, such is life, no one is 100 000% pessimistic or optimistic, we vary. But when optimistic, it's so much easier to shake off the blues and carry on appreciating the miracle of life regardless of the setbacks! Moping is not something we turn into a marathon sport! The blues; feeling angry; feeling depressed, yes we have those but we shake em faster, we get up faster, we dust off faster and ON WE GO!!!

So how about giving it a try for a month or so? Doing a mental 180 if you’re part of the frown club?

 Try to see the silver lining as much as possible! Don't beat yourself up for mistakes you make, accept others make mistakes too and aren't really out to get you, and that there is a heck of a lot of good that get's overlooked when you’re nose deep in looking for the bad and ugly! Traffic happens, it won’t go away. Stupid people out number you 20 to 1, they won’t go away. Why stress over what you can’t change! There are so many ways you can make your life a little bit extra creamy by just looking out for the good rather then the bad!

WARNING!!!!

It’s a highly addictive way of living and life is going to become a hell of a lot more fun! So maybe don't try it if you want to end up wasting your life as the ultimate sourpuss who yells at little kids and has more wrinkles on his face the a sharpie on its foldy butt! Optimism isn’t for the dead at heart!!!

Otherwise, well duh, what are you waiting for?!?!

Fine day today? Um no thanks

I was just wondering: - why do they call it a traffic fine?
I mean if you think about it, it's hardly 'fine'! It's actually very horrid! It means your handling of traffic was anything but 'fine'!
In fact pretty much where ever the word 'fine' is used as a noun implies that you're about to lose money and that you're not going to feel 'fine' for a while!!!
Just saying...

Of moving onwards

Don't you think a large amount of people's unhappiness comes from the fact that they forget that life is always changing? They have a set of expectations and damn me Willikers if they don't come true and come true now!

We all know that change is the only constant in life, yet when it happens to us, gosh, don't we fight it tooth and nail!!

We like to remind folk that nothing lasts forever, but usually only when they're having a rough time of it. (Which admittedly is when they need to remember it most!).  We pat them on the back, buy them a drink (The cheap stuff, they're depressed and won't notice) and tell 'em to stick with it because it will all be over soon.

However we forget the same is true for the good stuff as well. We seem to deem it our natural right that when we have something awesome, like a loving relationship; a great job or fabulous hair, it should, naturally, last for all eternity!

Guess what? No it doesn't.

Now you're sitting there and thinking, well geez, thank you for reminding me about that, thanks a bloody lot!

But what I'm trying to point out here (And Ta, you're welcome, you sarcastic git), is that we get unhappy simply because we get fixated on this, 'Life must be perfect and go how I expect it to mentality.

Life is not fair. Yes you know that, but do you actually accept it deep down in the meaty valves of your heart?

We also end up so expecting the great stuff that when we have it we don't even give it the attention it deserves, we even take it for granted, and then, POOF, it disappears and suddenly oh no, how hard done by are we, how sad, how pitiful, life sucks eggs!


Nope it doesn't, it's just not something you can control, and you forgot that.

So I'm thinking, I do that a lot, why not try to see life as a series of lessons that come and go? Something you can learn from? Even the best things in life don't last. But that's no reason to go hide in a dark corner and rock! If anything it's a precious realization that helps us fully enjoy the good AS WE HAVE IT RIGHT THIS SECOND!


Imagine living each experience whole-heartedly because you know it won't last forever? Adore your partner more because one day they might not be there! Love your kids because one day they'll be teenagers and it's illegal to strangle them! Heck, just really enjoy your supper because once it's eaten it's eaten and what are the chances anyone will get the cauliflower this tender again?

Expectations are all good and well, but maybe remember that there is a chance things won't go as planned and that's okay too! Enjoy your experiences, they are uniquely yours, for better or worse.
Or better again!

Related

Does anyone else find it funny that we go home to watch (bought/downloaded and/or pirated) movies, of people who live their lives specifically NOT watching series or movies of any kind?

Seriously, think of your favorite program. How often do those characters you admire, (oh you do and you know it!), just sit about and watch telly for hours like you do?

Just a thought.

Expexted the unexpect... blah blah etc

Sometimes the best thing to do in life is not to dream.

WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! WAIT! I'm not being morbid or morose or more... not happy, this is a positive thing, just bare with me!

See I've noticed that a lot of unhappy folk are generally unhappy due to their unfulfilled "dreams".

They planned to have a high paying job by 25, a family by 30, retire by 35 and die in a mass orgy with many a nubile wench after a long and luxurious life.
So they do tend to get a bit put off when things don't go as planned.

And this happens a lot! People can get just as unhappy when they're not married by age 30 as they can be at hoping to eat a fish salad and ending up with a chicken one! It's like, "Oh woe is me! Life is cruel because, although I have everything else, I didn't get my fish salad! It hates me!" and the other cries of the sort of victim you tend to think twice about socializing with.

The fact is we come to expect certain things to happen in a certain way because that is what we want! But life doesn't always, or sometimes ever, play that way and what you are now might be nothing at all like you hoped and dreamed you'd be however many moons ago in the past.

The difference between happy people and miserable people is that happy people are flexible.
So I'm not a millionaire....yet. I have my health and loving friends and a hamster!
So I didn't get the promotion, there's always next time.
So I didn't get my sex change operation, I still look great in dresses.
(It's about time I mention that these are generalizations and don't all apply to me because otherwise I'd have some bigger issues then I realized...)

Happy people can hope for more but also be happy with what they have so that, should the more not go according to plan, well damn, the ride was still awesomely fun hey?!

Sometimes your dreams actually get in the way of finding and being the person you were meant to be. You have to know what dreams are worth hanging onto, and which should be set free. Tricky yes, but you usually get a few hints along the way. (Like when you're nose starts falling off, that might be a small hint that you've had enough plastic surgery already!)

Living life with a few less expectations of what you think you deserve or what you think should happen, is going to remove that bowling ball of stress you keep all wrapped up in your intestines! Because as we all know, whether we'll admit it or not, life is going to happen to you regardless of what you expect!
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Tick tock Clarice... sorry Jovvi

Being a temp worker is strange. It’s like not really being there, or existing, in the eyes of most permanent employees. It’s the knowledge that one day they will come to work and you won’t. You have an expiry date and they can scent it and it makes their little herbivore hearts race. You’re sort of like the penguin in a flock of flamingos, and when the iron deficient baboon of unemployment comes a-hunting, you’re the one with the flightless flippers. (Though to be fair you’re also the cutest of the lot but that doesn’t stop you being gnawed by the cruel gnashers of fate, which make it a pretty useless skill level…)

Oh it’s not like folk aren’t friendly or that you sit there in a dark, dank corner with “TROLL” scrolling across your forehead, it’s just a general atmosphere and feeling. I find it takes rather a while for folk to warm to you and usually by the time they’re starting to be able to differentiate you from the toilet paper, you’re almost done with your time there and then the only thing you can do is steal said bog roll and make them feel your loss that much more keenly!

And its tough being a temp! You have to learn a whole bunch of new names, faces and odd places, only to get picked up and whisked away to somewhere new and another whole bunch of people to meet, greet and forget when you run into them on the streets in 5 months time.

The plus side of being a temp is also the minus side. The moving. It’s a big ass plus if you get put in a job that even a retarded chimp would turn his runny nose up to. Then you knuckle down, wait it out and run for sweet Georgia freedom when the warning bells sound! But it’s a minus when you find something you really enjoy doing and they still pass the pink slip and send you on with a jaunty wave and a smile.

It’s a very unstable life. It makes you feel like a gypsy who sets up camp somewhere new, does a jolly jig to make the towns folk happy, and still get chased out of the village when they feel your times up or suspect you’re get steamy with the Mayor’s youngling!

Well I still have time here at the job I’m doing, so for tonight let’s keep the camp fire burning and put on the good canned beans to simmer! For now I guess, that’s just fine.