HERE’S TO A GR8 2008!

(FROM A WEEKEND NOTE, THE EDITOR'S NOTE IN STYLE WEEKEND, THE FRIDAY LIFESTYLE SPECIAL OF MANILA BULLETIN, FRIDAY, 04JANUARY2008)

I couldn’t wait for 2008 and now it’s four days old, but there are still around 362 days to look forward to in this leap year. I don’t imagine it to be any easier than 2007 or any year before that, but I sure hope it can be greater.

BLURB
Kites rise highest against the wind… not with it. —Winston Churchill

Who wants to go through constant challenges, but often, we have no choice in the matter. Problems come and go. Obstacles hurl themselves on your path. Things do go wrong, no matter what you do to keep them right. At the end of the day, you’re left with no other option but to plod on because what else is there to do? You can’t just pull the plug on life, unless you have no problem with suicide.
But the clichés help, one of which is the ever popular “see the glass as half full.” So here are a few questions you can ask yourself every time the going gets rough in the next 362 days, keeping in mind that a glass that is half-full is also in every way half-empty.

1. Which is better: Going crazy because you have too much to do or going crazy because you have nothing to do?
2. Is it better to have people leave you alone, not minding what you do, than to have them demand so much of you, whether it is your presence at a wedding or a job well done?
3. Would you rather that your boss is allowing you to get accustomed to a life of mediocrity and indolence or would you rather that your boss keeps you on your toes on the path to excellence?
4. Do you prefer an ugly truth or a beautiful lie?
5. Will you spend the day doing what you have to do or spend it worrying that you are doing something else?
6. Is your fear of death, which consumes your life, worse than dying, which ends it?
7. Are you afraid of the lizard or is the lizard more afraid of you?
8. Why worry about something you can’t do anything about?
9. Who cares what other people think, unless they’re willing to pay you for doing what they think you should be doing?
10. Life is short and every minute counts, so how do you choose to spend it?

Happy 2008! Make it gr8!

A
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