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THINGS I LIKE ABOUT BEING ALIVE
1. I like meeting new characters and curmudgeons and wits and dullards every day…fascinating, inspiring, frightening, boring–you never know who’ll turn up next.
2. I like popcorn and marshmallows and olives and Ruffles. Can’t get enough.
3. I like taking off my shoes at day’s end. It’s like skinnydipping.
4. I like watching Liz cook and do art and sew and talk animatedly with anyone. She turns everything into high art.
5. I like watching myself grow older. It’s unbelievably funny and entertaining.
6. I like watching bureaucrats and clerks mindlessly following rules. They are clueless as to how amusing they are.
7. I like watching extremists rant, be they right-wing, left-wing, atheist, agnostic, religionist, radical, liberal. They have no idea that they are all trapped in the same dead-end compound, blindly following their self-righteous cul de sac logic.
8. I like being pleasantly distracted from reality, through books, film, theatre, excited conversation, intimacy. This always beats facing the universal truths.
9. I like it that we are all equal in the way we exist–we start out living and wind up not living. Nothing at all can be done about it, so we’re in the same leaky boat. No amount of politics and wishing and beliefs can trump this dead-on fact.
10. I like it that you humored my rant by reading this to the very end. You are now my unintentional friend
(c) 2011 A.D. Jim Reed http://www.jimreedbooks.com