These Things I Know for Sure

I’ve learned…

• No matter how certain I am that my opinion is the right opinion, there is someone I respect who believes the diametrical opposite with the same certainty.

• When it seems things cannot get any worse, they do.

• When it seems things are hopeless, they aren’t.

• There is always going to be someone who is smarter, dumber, richer, poorer, uglier, prettier, fatter, thinner, m ore loved and more hated than I am.

• Being in a hurry never makes anything move any faster, especially computers and the person in line in front of me at the supermarket.

• Within 30 minutes of leaving the house, I will need to find a rest room.

• Very few cat people also love dogs.

• Most of the people who think they can sing can’t.

• As long as I am alive, my son will always call me when he is feeling broken... or he’s just broke.

• Coqui the dog will ALWAYS stop to scratch an itch in the middle of an intersection.

• I have no idea what love really is, but I know how it feels.

• Telling the truth, paying bills on time, working hard and doing unto others as I would have them do unto me are all guaranteed to get me NOWHERE.

• When someone asks me “what did you do to your hair?” … they hate it.

• If men and women aren’t from different planets, they are definitely on different wave lengths.

• Dry morning air during the dog days of August is a treat rivaling a hot fudge sundae.

• Despite my fervent wishes and prayers, race will be an issue in the United States of America until the end of time.

• When people tell me who they are, believe them and wait for the rest of the story to unfold.  There is always a “rest of the story.”

• Greed is the root of all evil.  Empathy is a double-edged sword.

• Humans cannot out-learn, out-earn or outsmart their inherent frailties.

• Standing beside the ocean puts everything in its proper perspective.  In the scheme of things, I am miniscule.

• Heaven and Hell are in the now, not in the future.

• My mother did the best she could with what she had.

• “They lived happily ever after…” is the biggest lie ever told.

• Happiness cannot be touched with one’s fingers.

What are some of the things you have learned?