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Everything Has Value, Except Money
My Red Clay Diary is safely hidden from harm within my Book of the Thousand and One Amazements, deep within a bank of red clay, covered over by kudzu.
Each day, new amazements occur. I tend to notice them.
IMMUTABLE RULES OF REAL LIFE
1. Things don’t sell for what they are worth, they sell for what they go for.
2. An outgoing smile is no indication whether there will be an incoming smile.
3. Smile only if it makes you feel good…don’t expect it to be returned. Appreciate it if it is.
4. A fake smile is almost always detectable.
5. If you find it hard to smile, just think about what is worth smiling about in your life and go with that.
6. A smile may not be your umbrella on a rainy rainy day, but it can help you have fun getting soaked. Imagine Gene Kelly, who was running a fever the day he filmed the famous rain scene in Singin’ in the Rain.
7. If you’re afraid you’ll lose face, trying to smile when you don’t feel like it, just sneer and turn it upside down. Post this sign in front of you at all times: SNILE!
8. First-rate people associate themselves with first-rate people. Second-rate people associate themselves with third-rate people.
9. Do nice unto others as you would have them do nice unto you. But if they continue not doing nice unto you, drop them and associate only with those who do.
10. Smile a lot, at nothing at all. It will make people think you know something they don’t. It will drive your enemies crazy. It will draw nice people to you and help you identify people who are not.
11. Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup.
12. Those who do not find their mittens do not get pie. Even if they do find their mittens, they still may not get pie.
13. Sometimes, the sky really is falling.
14. Every good idea eventually backfires.
15. Everything has value, except money
16. Even if it cannot possibly go wrong, it might.
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© Jim Reed 2016 A.D.