More About Life

You are born into this world an innocent.

Guilt-free.
Sugar-free.
Caffeine-free.

Then suddenly...

WHACK!

You are spanked.
Really hard.
This is unfair.
You have done nothing wrong.
You know this for a fact.

How?

You haven't had time to do anything - period.

You are only 3 1/2 seconds old.

You haven't had time to catch your breath, let alone time to covet a neighbor or furtively screen calls on your answering machine. You don't even have an answering machine yet. You don't even have people to avoid yet - you are that spanking new.

Which brings us back to that spanking.

WHY? Why you?

Why all the pain?

Although you're only 3 1/2 seconds old, you have just been though a BIG LIFE LESSON.

LIFE LESSON #1

Pain exists.
Life can hurt.
Like a lot.

Even when you're good,
you can get whacked.
Without apology.
Without explanation.

It's not until later, that you finally LEARN...

LIFE LESSON #2

That pain back in LIFE LESSON #1 was for your benefit.

You were being
taught to breathe,
invited to suck
down a yummy
oxygen/nutrogen
cocktail. That
painful wahck
was necessary
for your growth.

Of course, had you been told this at that time, you still would not have understood with your naive lil' baby mind.

And so it goes for much of the pain in your life. Often you need to evolve a bit more before you can understand a bit more.

*excerpt from a book I picked up from a garage sale: "How To Be Happy, DAMMIT" by Karen Salmansohn.