Whenever I stumble, it’s a chance to glimpse a better path. Maybe not for months or even years, but when I look back now, my mistakes have, by and large, not been a waste. That makes it easier to keep positive in turbulence.

In the end, I’m going to die regardless of what happens. Until then, I’ll do my best to live as a happy idiot, and let others make the transient determination as to whether I’m lucky or unlucky.


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  1. Joe Hallett Avatar
    Joe Hallett

    Right there with ya brother.

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    1. Thanks for reblogging!!

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  2. Only two certainties, we’re born and we die, …in between we choose our way, ….(now I’ve got Frank Sinatra singing My Way in my head) … so be lucky…. ✨Penn✨

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  3. Have you ever heard Watts tell the chinese farmer proverb? If not, check it out on YT.

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    1. Thanks! I’ve heard this in different forms, and it’s definitely true in my experience. Loved hearing it from Watts!

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  4. Idiot(s) or mad geniuses in fragmented vessel —- good news is: it all make sense or sentient💐👈🏾😃

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  5. Consider that if we are not curing cancer or making the world a better place fifty years from now no one will know. Or give a fuck. From the gift that was Hendrix – “I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”

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  6. Your eloquent musings always have an upbeat dénouement. This old world needs more of that.

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    1. Thank you! I agree–after years of thinking things would decisively end this way or that way, I feel like edgy doomsaying is kind of overrated

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  7. CattleCapers Avatar
    CattleCapers

    Oh indeed. The best idiot is a happy idiot, rather than a sad one.

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  8. Better a happy idiot than pensive perfectionist!

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  9. And getting back up again is half the battle!

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