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What is an unsexy, raw reality of a long term marriage/relationship.
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@shmerdloff , I think you have a great sense of humour and it doesn’t get much better than that!
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@frouke
Thank you. It's a little deeper. Like Pippin, I tried everything. The best I 've come up with is, "...don't take it serious. Life's too mysterious. You work. You sweat. You worry so ...."
This is not some escapist philosophy. Alan Watts says NO ONE can get a leg up on the Universe. Badfinger says there ain't no real perfection. There'll be no perfect day ...."
Why ruin a life with most things we can't do anything about. Major acceptance. Suffering is the differential between what we believe we are entitled to and Reality. My good friend and brilliant judge, Betty Weinberg Ellerin, always said, Sometimes bread cast upon the waters comes back as strawberry shortcake."
We just saw Cabaret. What good's permitting some prophet of doom....? When I go I'm going like Elsie.
(I got just about everything on Connections, except dementia. Yet)🤣