Infection....

Avoid the unhappy and the unlucky......... you can die from someone else's misery- emotional states are as infectious as disease. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are only precipitating your own disaster. The unfortunate often draw misfortune onto themselves; they will also draw it to you. Associate with the happy and the fortunate instead.
[One of my favourite quotes]

Also ............. never lean too far back on an office chair with wheels........
This will precipitate the bussing of one's ass.

No but seriously............ some people are just "bummy" ........ and i don't mean bummy due to something , everyone is entitled to their sad or down moments.

I'm not talking about those people that are bummy all the time ..... everything is always wrong with them, nothing goes their way, nobody likes them etc. They act like if there is one single rain cloud that hangs over only their head, and its raining all the time.

And to make matters worse, they make it sound like your life is soooo perfect, like if you are lucky that XYZ is the circumstance in your life, they don't know what you are going through, but they assume its sunshine and daisies. These people hang on you, they make you feel sorry for them, you try to "help" them, and next thing your feeling bummy too. You feel obligated to help them because they are you friends, your lovers, your family etc........ But these people are heavy, they are the anchor around your neck..... they stop you from pushing yourself ...... you look back to help them and you can't see where you want to go. The Bumminess is infectious.

I have a message to all you "Bummy" people of the world ......... six little words that will help you to alleviate ALL your pain and suffering:

LIFE IS HARD ............. GET OVER IT !!

Its as simple as that ....... Shit happens to everyone ............... its how you deal with the shit that determines the quality of life you will have. Sitting around and crying solves nothing .......... and half the time the actions you take as a result of your bumminess result in the propagation of more bumminess.

Life is a continuum......... the things that you do now will affect the things that happen later ..... so do positive things now and positive things will come to you.

And to the non-bummy people, I'm not saying not to help, or be there for anyone, but help people that help themselves, and have a positive attitude about getting themselves out of the rut they are in..... even if they are bummy at the moment

Everybody has had it hard at one time or another ...... but my shoulder pads are not made of Kleenex ........ :P