According to the experts, we should all be getting our essential eight hours of sleep per day, we should walk everywhere rather than drive our cars, we should all eat extremely healthy diets, and, above all, we should be happy and not worry. Love it. Of course, I follow that list every day to the letter. On average, I get about two or three hours of sleep per day. I've just purchased a new car, so why should I walk? My diet is woeful, but I don't really care all that much about it. I'll live as long as the good Lord decides I should and not second longer. Yes, I would much rather trudge through this world as a grumpy old man than face the alternative. I experience new aches and pains every day, but I don't give them a second thought. I am happier now than I have been over the last seven decades because I care less about needless things and I mind my own business. I stopped caring about the expectations of other people and their opinions of me. I gave up worrying whether there is a nuclear war coming my way and what the latest health warnings are on the food I eat. I stopped thinking about a lot of the things that made me feel ill and I consider myself to be in a much better frame of mind today because of it. I gave up buying things that I didn't really need to ensure the economy stays afloat. I expect to pay exorbitant prices for most things I want or need such as water and electricity. It isn't what things cost; it is the profit margins that people demand to maintain their chosen lifestyle way above the rest of us. What a nonsense world we live in! If only we could wake up from our slumber and smell the roses instead of the horse manure.
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