Thursday, November 19, 2015

ABSURD


This is just a friendly 'heads up' that tomorrow, November 20th, is National Absurdity Day.  I'm not joking.  We're supposed to celebrate all the absurd things of humanity.  I've given you a few hours notice so you can prepare yourself.

The one fact of life we should accept is that we aren't going to be able to accept everything in life.

This shouldn't be hard to understand.  You accepted all kinds of dubious and absurd things as a child ...

-- Your mom told you not eating carrots would destroy your eyesight - so you gobbled up as many as you could, only you did it in even numbers to make sure your eyes didn't get lopsided vision.

-- Your dad said you'd have to eventually pay back all the food you ate in the home as a kid, and when you saw him giving your Grandma money after babysitting you, you assumed he was paying off his debt.

-- You thought when you heard people laughing in the background on TV shows that it was folks from around the world sitting in their living rooms laughing, so you got really close to the TV so they could hear you laughing.

-- As a kid, you thought people got pregnant from kissing.

-- You were terrified of eating fruit seeds because you believed you would grow fruit trees inside.

G. Carlin said: 'Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe and the vast majority will believe you.  Tell them the paint is wet and they have to touch it to be sure."  Absurd.

Enjoy the day tomorrow.

And be blessed.

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