The P.A.

We need a few more magnanimous people in our lives and a few less pusillanimous ones. How ‘bout those two words in the same sentence?  Society would be much better if we shifted to giving rather than not.  If you are playing along, you just got a hint as to the definition(s) of these two powerful words. 

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Stopping to smell the roses isn’t the issue for me.  It’s remembering what they smelled like.  That’s the tough part.  My guess is that there are very few “memories for a lifetime.”  We romanticize over the idea that an event will be pressed between the pages of our minds forever and ever.  Fact is, most of our memories barely last a lunch time, let alone a lifetime.  Sadly, I remember less and less about those moments that I should have tucked away forever.  My guess is there are others like me whose mental photographs are sketchy at best.  Life happens.

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Under the category of “you’ve got to be kidding – I never thought of it like that,” is a discussion I had with my wife this past Friday night while we were attending a Royals-Yankees game in Kansas City. A long-time buddy got married on Saturday, so we made a weekend of it. A good time was had by all.

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How starved for love was the baby-boomer generation?  We bought “Pet Rocks” to keep us company.  Yeah, that’s right.  If you don’t remember the first go-round of puka shell necklaces, wide-bottom bell bottoms, waffle stompers, or you have no idea what Stephen Tyler did before American Idol, then you had absolutely no idea that your parents may have been a couple of the millions who bought a rock and called it their pet.  Sick, huh?

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According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), the majority of Americans have some work to do in order to improve their quality of life.  Yes, the same folks who talk to us about the flu and the other maladies of our time are now suggesting that we work diligently to improve our “sense of well-being” as a means by which to live a healthier life.  Apparently, a merry heart does make for good medicine.

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