Let's Drink to That!

Life is measured by every cent and it takes a lot of creativity to endure its different swirls. Living and loving every moment and turning nothing into haste and waste will push you to step forward in life. Life is short and we must savor every minute of it and put it to good use to advance ourselves with or without others. Being dependent on others is such a waste of time. It can lead to frustration, and sometimes that frustration turns to insanity. So just live within the means -- may it be monetary or interpersonal. Each one of us have different challenges to face everyday. Each has their own needs. There is a need to be alone, a need to find a means of living, a need to learn a skill, a need to be with someone for a particular point in time and a particular kind of someone. It takes consensus, an agreement between two parties if they both feel the need to be with each other. Nothing is an obligation. We have no obligations at all. You are not obliged to be with your wife everyday, you are not obliged to be with your friends every weekend. These are just ways of living that without critical thinking, we do follow, thus, blind obedience. Frustration comes when we expect the other person to act a certain way because that is our OWN perception as to how a person should act and we base it not on the person itself but according to our past experiences and label it a "should be" or a "standard" in lay man's term. Happiness comes from low-key expectations according to the bulgy man named Budd.. who respects all the 'animates'. Let's drink to that!