Try to Avoid Stress . . .

Proverbially speaking, we're all sitting in that chair. You going to try to tell me that your life is so structured and under such rigid control that fate can't manage to dump a pail of cold water on your noggin? ... Didn't think so.

As any golfer knows, there are things that happen to your golf ball after it leaves where it lay at rest that can't always be explained. And no real golfer is silly enough to expect that 'effect' always equals 'cause.' Golf is a perfect metaphor for life. I would have called it a simile, but there are those among you who would wonder what 'a smile' has to do with it... But the thing is, smiling does end up being what it's all about.

Take note in the photo that the man is smiling. He's about to have the smile wiped off his face, but then it's his choice... He can put the smile right back on his face. He can avoid a ton of stress! All he has to do is consider the facts. It's just water. There's beer in the 'frig and his wife is visiting her sister and won't be back for three more days; eventually his grandson is going to come in and go to sleep and then he can go in, undo his grandson's bottom sheet, wrap the little pecker-head in it, thus tying him up and he can, at his leisure, exact his pound, or pail, of flesh.

So the following day he'll be back in his chair, smiling, knowing that his grandson will NEVER do that again.

Stress is an ugly thing and should be avoided whenever possible.