Well.. what do I say..????

Its a slow time at work at the minute.. with the house prices depressed, no one wants furniture and white goods.. which to me just serves to illustrate the whole interconnectedness of reality... which in itself shows me to have too much time on my hands.... which is always a problem. as Douglas Adam's points out in his Hitch Hikers Guide books, human's talk a lot.... Ford prefect is originally convinced that we do this for fear that our jaws will sieze up, but later evidence shows him that actually we do it because if our jaws stop moving our brains start working.. and I must admit I'm inclined to agree.... I do most of my least productive thinking in the quiet periods of the evening or mid afternoon, and to be honest if some of these thoughts were ever translated into action we'd all have problems.. especially the ones about gas powered toasted sandwich makers... its getting round Breville's patent for the cut and seal action that's causing me the most problems.. but I digress...I often wonder if we'd all have been better of without the capacity for abstract thought, but then I also think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge.... and that again is a big human problem that only abstract thought could create.. the terrible "what if" syndrome.. many of us (too many) spend our lives wondering "what if...?" what if I hadn't married john... what if I'd not had that affair.. what if I'd told the boss where to go.. what if I'd listened at school... and some of us spend so much time on what ifs that we miss out on what's happening now.... unfortunately we can only travel in time in one direction, at the rate of 24 hours per day... so we can't go back and cange anything.. which is possibly a good thing... as my dad used to say, there's ten miles between should and is.... and toi be honest I think we'd all be beter off concentrating on the is.... which brings me to Wisebeard's tip of the year, a method of living that those such as L Ron Hubbard, et al, would make a 500 page book and loads of money out of, but I'll let you have for free.. its not the easiest advice to follow, despie its simplicity, but my mate Joe reckons its made his life better, and thats good enough for me.... so here it is.... in words of one syllable and more.... put simply, instead of worrying about something that has happened, or how you could have avoided it if only you'd etc etc, ask yourself this.... Is there anything I can do about it now? if there is, then stop worrying and do it.. if there isn't, stop worrying and get on with something else.... as i may have said before, we as a race, especially in the civilised west, tend to treat emotions as an end in themselves, rather than as signals... which causes a lot of problems... not to say that these emotions of hate, fear, love and the rest aren't useful, but they are there to tell us things.. fear is saying "get outta here..." love means "stay here.. this is a good one...." but they are just signals, and our inability to remember this leads to phobias, and in some cases divorce.....but I'm getting maudlin.... I think waht I'm trying to say is that in our attention deficit mtv world we tend to be disappointed when "love" doesn't last... we don't realise that love is just a pointer to something more important and ultimately more rewarding..... a relationship...... and i'm still using far too many punctuation marks..... so unil commas grow on trees like semi-colons already do, Wisebeard salutes you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!