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Laughter is the shock absorber that eases the blows of life ~ author unknown
A true story…
You have six cars. Your spouse and daughter each take one to work. One of your sons takes one to school.
How many cars are left?
You have an important meeting. You dress carefully and are ready to walk out the door right on schedule.
Today, you are choosing to feel peace, so you breathe deeply to help you remain calm as you dig through the bowl of keys and attempt to ignore the keys for the car that is missing a rear wheel, a wheel that mysteriously flew off while one son was “just” driving along. The car, not the son, is in the shop receiving expensive repairs.
You find the keys to your car. The same car that, out of kindness, you let the son of the mysterious-rolling-tire fame borrow the night before to go to work. Head down, you scoot through the pelting rain, jump into your car and splash onto the front seat. But something’s not right. The sunroof is open… all the windows are down.. there’s a Starbuck’s lid floating in a puddle on the floor…
Determined to feel peace, you take a deep breath but your pants are getting wetter by the second. You take a deep, deep, deeeeeper breath and close the roof and windows.
You are now running late and scurry back to the house to find the keys for another car. You open the door to this car and are hit with the overpowering aroma of the skunk the other son “forgot” to tell you he hit.
How many cars are left?
Can I remember a time when I chose to laugh rather than rant or cry at the blows of life?
