Stoic Sam !zQ8ry.WSMk started this discussion 8 years ago#70,729
Every morning, when you wake up, think to yourself what a marvellous thing it is to be alive, to breathe, to exist in this moment, this minute flash of existence that you have been given.
Don't be lazy and stay in bed. Were you born to laze under sheets, to close your eyes and waste time? Or were you born to strive, to work and to conquer the adversities of life?
Sheila LaBoof joined in and replied with this 8 years ago, 29 minutes later[^][v]#852,774
this reminds me of this quote:
"I was four when Howdy Doody was on and I watched it, of course, they put me in front of the tv at supper time alone so I could watch it. But there was a live in-show commercial that sent me running in terror and covering my ears, for a good five minutes: A sponsor was, I think, Puffed Wheat 'shot out of a cannon' and I would watch in horror as they stuffed some cereal in, I guess. And Clarabelle the clown would climb in, and they would light the fuse on the cannon! The horror! I was only four and believed Clarabelle would not shoot out of the cannon in one piece, unharmed, but would come out in an explosion of blood and guts spraying all over the Peanut Gallery! Mixed with soggy puffed wheat. So I had to run out of the room when I saw that happen every single time."