Smiley's Words of Wisdom
I love learning because there is so much more you can do once you’ve learned something. How so you ask? Glad you asked, here’s a very simple example off the top of me head (maybe I should be a teacher)
Imagine if you will that you never learned how to open a door. It sounds silly I know but pretend that no matter what you did, you could not open doors. Now think of how many things in life your missing out on because you never learned how to open a door, you’ve never been outside, or been in the library, or in your favorite store, because you couldn’t get in unless you depended on someone else to open the door for you. What if there was no one there to help, no one around to open that door, wouldn’t you wish that you had learned to open doors. Especially if behind that door was something that you really needed, food, clothing, a bathroom. You see, this is what learning does for us, it opens doors and it lets us rely on ourselves to do things for us. If you want to think of life as being full of doors to be opened, new opportunities that will make your life easier, just learning how to open that first door, or to speak that first word, or to solve your first problem by yourself, it opens up so many doors in life and makes everything so much more available than it is if it would have been locked away behind a door that you never learned how to open because you never bothered to learn. To wrap this up. all I can say is to learn everything you possibly can because you never know when you'll encounter a door in life, an opportunity that you really want, and need to know how to open that particular door to get it, and just by having learned it in the past you are prepared and can open that door and you'll be happy. (kinda like wanting a job but needing the right amount of educational background to get it)
One good piece of advice though is that life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it.
Life is what you make it, so make it good.
What if you were a plunger?
Here’s an end note, Imagine if YOU were a plunger, would you care what year it was, no one really tells you anything when you’re a plunger. A plunger does a very important but thankless job. You see, that’s the trouble with people these days, they don’t talk. I mean, how often have you asked a plunger, or a flower pot how they were doing today, most people never even bother to thank them after they use them. I mean if you just used a frying pan to cook your food, you could not have done it without it right, so even though It’s an inanimate object, don’t you think it’d be nice to thank it for its services before you put it away in that dark cabinet. Try that next time, cook a grilled cheese sandwich and after YOU wash the pan with a dobie, whom you'd also thank, oh, and don't forget about Mr. Water, before you put your pan away, say thank you to it and see just how much better you feel. Well, I will stop at that because I have a lot of thank you’s to give out, to the computer, to the keys, to the phone, to the phone company, to the...
Well, it was just a thought, one of the many random ones floating around in my mind. ..or maybe it was the lack of sleep... or that fish I ate.. .or maybe the mushrooms on the fish....
If anything, the moral of the story is that communication makes everyone feel a lot better, even if the person or thing does not respond back, at least they know how you feel and that is the best that you can do. And, if you feel silly for talking to an inanimate object, at least you feel silly and maybe feel better than before, the same applies to a person that doesn't want to talk to you, at least you did everything in your power to talk so you'll feel better..
Really though, it's not even thanking some inanimate object, it's just being thankful for what you have and recognizing it.