Tripartite Sense of Time: the Past, the Future and Laughter…
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The News
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MY NEWS FOR OCTOBER 1, 1999 COPYRIGHT 1999 JAN COX
A WELL KNOWN AND RESPECTED MYSTIC CALLED TOGETHER HIS MANY FOLLOWERS FROM AROUND THE WORLD AND ONCE THEY WERE ASSEMBLED, SAID TO THEM: “I HAVE SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT TO SAY….
….BUT I DON’T QUITE KNOW WHAT IT IS.”
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ONE MAN’S PRESENT SLOGAN IS: “YOU ARE WHAT YOU DREAD.”,
WHICH, HE SAYS, IS AN IMPROVEMENT OVER HIS PREVIOUS ONE WHICH WAS: “YOU ARE WHAT YOU EXPECT.”
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ANYONE CAN ACQUIRE NEW THINGS — BUT ONLY A FEW CAN THROW AWAY OLD ONES.
AND ONE MAN HAS HIS OWN PRIVATE, TRIPARTITE SENSE OF TIME: THE PAST, THE FUTURE AND LAUGHTER.
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ONE DAY WHILE READING, A MAN CAME UPON THIS STATEMENT:
“IF YOU TALK TO A MAN ABOUT HIMSELF HE WILL LISTEN HAPPILY FOR HOURS.”, AND CHUCKLED SARCASTICALLY TO HIMSELF — ‘TIL TI SUDDENLY HIT HIM: “HEY — THAT’S WHAT THE VERBAL PART OF MY CORTEX DOES TO MY
OVERALL CONSCIOUSNESS.”
IN AN ATTEMPT TO “GIVE HIMSELF A LEG UP” IN HIS “WALK OF RECOVERY” ONE MAN CHANGED HIS LISTING IN THE TELEPHONE BOOK BY ADDING A NAME TO HIS ALREADY EXISTING ONE: IT NOW READS:”PINHEAD SUBSTITUTE.”
SOME PEOPLE HAVE A NATURAL INSTINCT FOR UNHAPPINESS NO MATTER HOW HARD CONDITIONS MAY TRY AND MAKE THEM FEEL OTHERWISE.
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AND ONE MAN HAS A PERSONAL RHYME CONCERNING THE CELLULAR ACTIVITY
OF HIS FRONTAL LOBES:
“I AM MY CELLS, AND MY CELLS ARE ME:
THEY KNOW THIS, BUT I REMAIN CONFUSED.”
…(SECOND VERSE):
“THEY MAKE ME LIKE THIS, AND NOT LIKE THAT,
YET CAUSE ME TO FEEL IT SHOULD BE OTHERWISE.”
AND ANOTHER CHAP OFFERS THIS OBSERVATION:
“ALL DISCOVERIES YOU MAKE OF FACTS, TRICKS & METHODS THAT ARE PERTINENT
TO YOUR ATTEMPT TO ALTER YOUR CONDITION OF CONSCIOUSNESS
HAVE A DISTINCT LIFE SPAN OF USEFULNESS,
WHICH I GENERALLY FIND TO BE AROUND…OH…A COUPLE OF HOURS AT BEST,
WHAT’S YOUR EXPERIENCE IN THIS MATTER?”, HE ASKS, AND THEN BEGINS TO LAUGH BEFORE ANYONE HAD TIME TO RESPOND,
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ONE MAN REACHED A CERTAIN INTERNAL PLACE WHEREAT HE BEGAN TO PICTURE HIS MENTAL LIFE AS A TELEVISION NETWORK WHOSE PROGRAMMING CONSISTS OF NOTHING BUT TEASERS & PROMOS THAT SAY: “AND COMING UP NEXT….”
A’NOTE REGARDING A “SPECIAL HANDLING OF TIME”:. . –
FOR-THE SAME PERIOD YOU-ARE LAUGHING, YOU HAVE NO PAST OR FUTURE,
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ONCE DAY A FELLOW HEARD SOMEONE SAY: “WHEN A MAN IS SEXUALLY SMITTEN, HIS PASSION WILL DECEIVE HIM. LATER IT WILL MAKE HIM – DECEIVE HIMSELF.”, AND HE SUDDENLY CRIED OUT TO HIMSELF: “THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT HAS HAPPENED REGARDING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE THOUGHTS I HAVE AND MY CONSCIOUSNESS.”, …BUT THEN JUST AS SUDDENLY, HE FELL INTERNALLY QUIET & REFLECTIVE, AND MUSED: “BUT IN THAT RELATIONSHIP,THE ATTRACTION I FEEL, AND THE
OBJECT OF MY ATTRACTION ARE FROM THE SAME SOURCE.(?!?!)” – AND HE PUZZLED OVER THIS SITUATION MUCH, BUT AT LEAST CAME TO REALIZE THAT UNDER SUCH CONDITIONS, DECEIVING ONESELF WAS INEVITABLE.
AND NOW: STILL ANOTHER MAN’S PROFFERED FACT, (PUTS FORTH HE):
“YOU CAN EITHER: TRY TO ALTER YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS AND WAKE UP — OR: LAUGH, EVERY TIME YOU THINK ABOUT IT.”
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OH SO EASILY CAN A THOROUGHLY USELESS SENSE OF GRIMNESS BE ACCEPTED AS
A SIGN OF PURPOSEFUL DETERMINATION. BELIEVE ME: OH SO EASILY.
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AFTER HEARING A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHINE ABOUT THE PAST,
AND MOAN ABOUT THE FUTURE, ONE MAN MUSED ALOUD:
“GENERALLY SPEAKING: THERE IS NOT TIME LIKE THE PRESENT.”,
AND A MAN NEXT TO HIM RESPONDED:
“GENERALLY SPEAKING: THERE IS NO PRESENT.”
WHEN I SAY THAT CONDITIONS WILL NEVER BE ANY BETTER THAN THEY ARE AT THIS VERY MOMENT, YOU DO UNDERSTAND THAT I REFER TO THE FACT THAT EACH PERSON’S OWN, INTERNAL, THOUGHT-BASED CONDITIONS CAN NEVER BE ANY DIFFERENT, OR BETTER THAN THEY ARE AT THIS AND EVERY OTHER, INSTANT IN TIME?!
THE OPTIMUM, (AND INDEED, ONLY) TIME YOU EVER WILL HAVE IS,
THIS VERY MOMENT, AND IT IS BUT THE THOUGHTS PASSING FOREVER THRU YOU THAT LEAD YOU TO PERCEIVE OTHERWISE.
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NOTHING THAT MEN COME UP WITH TO CHANGE THEIR PSYCHOLOGICAL LIFE EVER WORKS.. EXCEPT FOR ANYTHING THAT MAY BE APPARENTLY’ WORKING FOR THE PERSON IT IS WORKING FOR.
NOTHING THAT ANYONE TELLS YOU ABOUT YOURSELF HAS ANY MEANING WHATSOEVER OTHER THAN ANY MEANING THAT THE THOUGHTS IN. YOUR CORTEX SAY IT HAS.
AND ONE MAN SIGHED WITH RELIEF: “IT IS TRULY A GOOD THING. THAT MY LIFE DOESN’T DEPEND ON WHAT GOES ON IN THE VERBAL PART OF MY BRAIN.”,
AND THE INSTRUCTOR SAID: “YOU WILL NEVER CHANGE THE STRUCTURE AND
OPERATION OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS BY LISTENING TO SOMEONE ELSE.”,
AND A LAD IN THE FIRST ROW RAISED HIS HAND: “PARDON ME SIR)
BUT IN YOUR STATEMENT: DOES THAT INCLUDE – LISTENING TO YOURSELF?”,
AND THE INSTRUCTOR REPLIED: “YES, ONCE YOU REALIZE FOR YOURSELF
THE FACTS UNDERLYING THE CONCEPT OF, ‘YOURSELF’.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME, BOY?” — “I BELIEVE SO, SIR.” —
“SHUSH! — DON’T ANSWER THAT.”
AND ANOTHER MAN SAYS A PICTURE OF HIMSELF HAS ARISEN RELATED TO MOVIE ACTING, IN THAT HE SEES.THE THOUGHTS IN HIS HEAD AS BEING A “STAND IN” FOR HIS REAL LIFE.
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AND TO HIMSELF, ONE MAN MUSED:
“ARE EFFORTS TO ALTER THE ACTIVITIES IN YOUR CONSCIOUS CORTEX
AKIN TO — SPREADING A VIRUS?!”, AND HIS BROTHER RESPONDED:
“I’D SAY MORE LIKE — ACTIVATING A LATENT ONE.”
THEN THE FIRST MAN FURTHER MUSED: “I WONDER WHERE THE BUG ORIGINATED?!”,
AND HIS CORTICAL CELLS SLAPPED THEIR LITTLE HANDS OVER THEIR LITTLE MOUTHS,
LIKE PLAYFUL CHILDREN, “CAUGHT-IN-THE-ACT”, AND WENT: “UH OH!”
EVERYONE HAS THE SAME SYMPTOMS AS A MYSTIC
….BUT ONLY HE COMES DOWN _WITH.- SOMETHING.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A MISANTHROPE AND AN OBJECTIVE OBSERVER CAN BE NO MORE THAN: LACK OF SLEEP, OR ANCHOVIES.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF SUB-CORTICAL ACTIVITY ON THE AREA. “ABOVE” IT. (AS IT IS OFTEN, HUMOROUSLY REFEREED TO),
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A DAY OF NEW POSSIBILITIES IS THE DAY YOU REALIZE THAT YOU CANNOT SHIP
ENOUGH MERCHANDISE OUT THE BACK DOOR TO KEEP UP WITH THE ORDERS
COMING IN THE FRONT.
…OR:
YOU CAN’T THROW UP FAST AND OFTEN ENOUGH TO COMPENSATE FOR WHAT
YOU’RE IN THE HABIT OF CONSUMING.
…AND ONE CHAP MUSED: “SURE IS A GOOD THING THAT THE CORTEX
DOESN’T SEEM INCLINED TO PUT ON WEIGHT DUE TO ITS HABITS.”
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A PERSON WANTING TO “AWAKEN” IS ORIGINALLY A PERSON WHO ASPIRES. TO BE
BETTER THAN THE NORM AND:
A PERSON WHO SUCCEEDS FINDS HIMSELF AMAZED, (AND OFTEN AMUSED), THAT HE WAS ABLE TO SURVIVE AS LONG AS HE DID
BEING SO FAR BELOW THE NORM,
AND UPON HEARING AND CONSIDERING THIS, ONE MAN THOUGHT:
“YOU KNOW, THIS’D ALL BE REAL FUNNY — IF IT WEREN’T SO SERIOUS! …AND, YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE: THIS’D ALL BE REAL SERIOUS, IF IT WEREN’T SO
FUNNY.” (WHAT D’YA THINK: IS HE AWAKE, OR STILL JUST STRUGGLING )
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AND LOOKING INTO A MIRROR, A MYSTICAL, MUGGER-MAN MUSED: “YOU CAN GET MORE WITH A SMILE AND AN EMPTY HEAD
THAN YOU CAN WITH JUST AN EMPTY HEAD.”,
AND THE VERBAL WEAPON THAT HE USED TO WIELD ASKED ITSELF: “WHERE’D I GO WRONG?!?!”
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ONE DAY ONE MAN SO REFLECTED:
“AT FIRST I WANTED TO, ‘WAKE UP’:
THEN I WANTED TO BE THOUGHT OF AS, ‘CLEVER’,
AND I ALMOST ‘CLEVERED’ MYSELF OUT OF WAKING UP.”
HE THEN POINTED HIS FINGER AT A POSTER OF BUDDHA IN A SOLDIER’S UNIFORM,
AND LOUDLY DECLARED: “WE WANT YOU!
BE ALL THAT YOU’RE NOT INTENDED TO BE, AND,
DO MORE BEFORE FIVE A.M. THAN YOU’D NORMALLY THINK ABOUT-DOING ALL DAY.”,
AND BUDDHA SMARTLY SALUTED BACK, BARKING OUT:
“YES SIR! — SIR!
I CAN’T HEAR ME — SIR!”,
..(“AT EASE.”, FINALLY INJECTED HIS THALAMUS.)
(BY THE WAY: I HAVE IT ON PRETTY SOLID AUTHORITY THAT THERE WILL BE NO “CLEVER PEOPLE” IN HEAVEN, [JUST IN CASE ANY OF YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED].)
AND A BOY SAID TO HIS FATHER: “YOU CAN BE CLEVER WITH YOUR HANDS,
AND YOU CAN BE CLEVER IN PLANNING THINGS TO DO WITH YOUR HANDS,
BUT THEN YOU CAN ALSO JUST BE — CLEVER WITH WORDS. QUESTION: WHICH OF THE TWO HEREIN IS BEING TRASHED?!”, AND THE OLD MAN CUT HIM A LOOK OUT OF HIS EYE CORNERS THAT WOULD STRIP THE SHELLAC OFF OF MONTH OLD MOCKERY.
BUT: SARCASM, SNEERING, DERISION, RIDICULE & OTHER CLEVERNESS ASIDE,
THIS FACT REMAINS:
TAKING THE THINKING IN YOUR BRAIN TO BE “SERIOUS” IS DAMN NEAR OBSCENE -.,.AND YET IS PRECISELY WHAT MAKES A MYSTIC FALL FOR. THE IDEA OF ENLIGHTENMENT. NOW: EVERYONE PLACE YOUR HANDS ON YOUR RADIO WHILE WE PRAY FOR BUDDHA
TO BE-ISSUED A NEW UNIFORM MORE FLATTERING TO HIS BODY TYPE.)
PLEASE BE ADVISED: PAST A CERTAIN PLACE IN THIS JOURNEY, IF YOU ARE STILL EARNEST, STERN, SOLEMN OR SINCERE, YOU ARE LAUGHABLE AND JUST DON’T KNOW IT.
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WHEN ONE MAN WOULD FEEL PARTICULARLY, “OUT OF SORTS”
HE’D EAT A HOT PEPPER….
AND IF THAT DIDN’T WORK, HE’D PUT IT BETWEEN TWO ONION SLICES…
AND IF THAT STILL DIDN’T DO THE JOB, HE’D DOUSE THE WHOLE THING
IN TABASCO SAUCE, AND IF HE WAS STILL DISSATISFIED
HE’D BEGIN TO BITE ON HIS TONGUE AS HE WAS EATING THE CONCOCTION…
…AND — IF ALL ELSE FAILED:
HE’D GO LOOK AT HIMSELF IN A MIRROR AND DECLARE:
“JUST THINK! — YOU’RE THE MAN WHO ONCE WANTED TO – ‘WAKE UP’,
AND JUST LOOK AT YOU NOW!”,
THEN HE’D POINT AN ACCUSATORY FINGER AT HIS REFLECTION,
AND FALL TO THE FLOOR, CONVULSED IN LAUGHTER, (FEIGNED OR NOT?!?)
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ALTHOUGH THEY WILL VERBALLY CLAIM TO THE CONTRARY,
I SAY THAT MOST PEOPLE MOST LIKE- LIFE WHEN THEY CAN FEEL LIKE AN ACTOR IN A PLAY WHOSE ACTIONS ARE INESCAPABLY DRIVEN BY THE WRITTEN
CONDITIONS OF EACH SCENE,
LOOK AT OTHERS…THEN EXAMINE YOURSELF, AND. TELL ME THAT MEN DO NOT TRULY FIND FAVOR WITH FEELING THAT THEIR LIVES ARE SO CONTROLLED.
YES, WHEN ASKED ABOUT THIS DIRECTLY, PEOPLE WILL DENY THEY HAVE SUCH FEELINGS, BUT
HOW MANY DRUNKS WHO DENOUNCE BOOZE CAN STAND ON. THE HEAD OF A PIN HEADED W BARTENDER?
AND SOMEONE APPROACHED A MAN, WELL KNOWN FOR HIS WRITINGS, (CLEVER WRITINGS, SOME MIGHT SAY), ON THE MATTER OF, “AWAKENING & ENLIGHTENMENT”, AND SAID TO HIM: “WHAT IS THE PRACTICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN WORDS, AND IDEAS ABOUT A CHANGE IN ONE’S MENTAL LIFE AND THE ACTUAL DEED ITSELF?”, AND THE WELL KNOWN WRITER, LEAPT BACK, FISTS FORMED, AND SHOUTED: “GET AWAY FROM ME — WHAT KIND OF MANIAC ARE YOU!?”
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NOTES ONE MAN: “THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT’LL NEVER LET YOU DOWN, OR FAIL TO DELIVER AS EXPECTED: COCAIN AND LAUGHING.”
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VIA ONE VERBAL TELLING of-IT: THE DESIRE TO AWAKEN, ACHIEVE ENLIGHTENMENT,
AND THE LIKE, IS A WISH TO. CHANGE WHAT GOES ON IN ONE’S,
“THOUGHT-DEFINED”, CEREBRAL CORTEX WHEN IT IS NOT ENGAGED IN SOME
SPECIFIC ACTIVITY, PHYSICALLY MEANINGFUL TO THE ORGANISM,
BUT I SAY THAT SUCH PEOPLE COULD BETTER FOCUS THEIR ATTENTION
TO FINDING THAT AREA OF OPERATION IN THE BRAIN THAT DETERMINES
WHICH PART OF THE CORTEX’S UNDIRECTED ACTIVITIES REACH OUR
VERBAL-BASED AWARENESS,
Out OF THE EVER WHIRLING, CHURNING MIXTURE OF THOUGHTS SPLASHING THRU OUR CORTEX
WHAT IN OUR BRAIN SELECTS THE ONE FOR THE MOMENT THAT WILL FILL THE STAGE OF OUR MIND, OUR CONSCIOUSNESS?!
IN OTHER WORDS: I RECOMMEND THAT PEOPLE WITH THE INTEREST I HAVE NOTED SHOULD LEAVE THE SUBJECT OF, “CONSCIOUSNESS” ITSELF, AND TURN THEIR INVESTIGATIONS TO THE QUESTION OF: WHERE DOES “ATTENTION” COME FROM IN THE BRAIN, (AND PERHAPS A MORE POINTED INQUIRY):
WHAT IN FACT IS, “ATTENTION”?
ALL OF THE WELL KNOWN PRACTICES AND DISCIPLINES PURPORTED TO HELP ONE ACHIEVE THE STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS CALLED, “AWAKENING ENLIGHTENMENT”, ARE BASED ON THE APPARENT ABILITY. OF A PERSON TO EXERCISE CONTROL OVER THEIR “ATTENTION”, AND TO BE CAPABLE OF SEPARATING, IN THE MIND,
THEIR DESIRE FOR A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS FROM THEIR ALREADY ESTABLISHED ONE,
IT WOULD SURELY SEEM THAT WITHOUT “ATTENTION” BEING A “SOMETHING” THAT IS APART FROM CONSCIOUSNESS 7.7-.BUT.YET.ABLE.TO,EFFECT IT — THAT THERE WOULD BE NO HISTORY OF MEN AND WOMEN STRUGGLING FOR “AWAKENING”,
AND YET –. THERE IS NO HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE ATTEMPTING TO.EMPLOY SUCH METHODS WHO EVER ACTUALLY EVEN_ASK.THEMSELVES WHAT THEY MEAN BY THE WORD, “ATTENTION” AS APART FROM CONSCIOUSNESS, AND ALL OF THE OTHER ACTIVITIES GOING ON IN A HUMAN’S BRAIN,
IF SUCH PEOPLE WERE TO ASK ME, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THEY LEAVE FOR THE MOMENT, THEIR CONCERN ABOUT, “BEING ASLEEP” WITH. THEIR CONSCIOUSNESS, “OUT OF THEIR CONTROL”, AND CONCERN THEMSELVES RATHER WITH FINDING OUT WHAT THE WORD, “ATTENTION” ACTUALLY REPRESENTS AS A MATTER OF PHYSICAL FACT.
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WHAT IF YOU BY SO DOING DISCOVER THAT THE BEST WAY TO DEAL WITH, “THOUGHT-DEFINED” CONSCIOUSNESS IS NOT TO “DEAL WITH IT” AT ALL?!, BUT WOULD BE BETTER SERVED IN LOCATING & STUDYING THAT OTHER PART OF THE BRAIN, (AND IT MUST BE THERE — SOME WHERE!),
THAT IS SELECTING WHICH OF THE VARIOUS THOUGHTS AVAILABLE
MY CONSCIOUSNESS CONTINUALLY GETS MOMENTARILY FOCUSED ON,
IS NOT A SURE PATH TO FAILURE AND FRUSTRATION TO BE:
“WORKING ON THE WRONG PROBLEM”?! (IN THIS INSTANCE):
TO BE TRYING TO DIRECTLY CHANGE THAT PART OF THE BRAIN THAT PRODUCES
THE ENDLESS FLOW OF UNCONTROLLABLE,,MEANINGLESS THOUGHTS THAT
SPOIL A MYSTIC’S CONSCIOUSNESS
RATHER THAN FOCUSING YOUR EFFORTS ON THAT PART OF THE BRAIN’S OPERATIONS
THAT MOMENT-BY-MOMENT IS SELECTING WHICH OF THE ENDLESS STREAM OF
USELESS THOUGHTS
GET THOUGHT OF ?!?!
MY BEST, PRESENT SUGGESTION TO PEOPLE INTERESTED IN THIS AFFAIR WOULD BE THAT THEY TEMPORARILY FORGET ABOUT, “BEING ASLEEP” AND OUT OF CONTROL
IN CONSCIOUSNESS, AND INSTEAD, FOCUS THEIR ATTENTION OF WHATEVER IT IS THAT FOCUSES THEIR ATTENTION ON ONE PARTICULAR THOUGHT OR THE OTHER
AT EVERY INSTANT,
IN PRACTICE: A MAN WANTING TO AWAKEN IS THE HARDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD
TO PLEASE,
WHILE IN THEORY: HE SHOULD BE — AND COULD BE — THE EASIEST.
(HERE’S WHAT DO): PICK OUT ONE OF THE WAYS TO AWAKEN THAT YOU FIND AGREEABLE,
(LIKE, “TRYING TO STOP THOUGHT),
THEN EVERY TIME YOU REALIZE THAT YOU HAVEN’T BEEN DOING IT
INSTEAD OF THEN TRYING TO STOP THOUGHT, AND SWEARING YOU’LL DO BETTER IN THE FUTURE,
THINK ABOUT WHAT IT IS THAT YOU INTEND TO DO AND LAUGH INSTEAD,
THERE IS MY PERSONAL TIP FOR THE WEEK.