Money

In our society, money is the ultimate punishment and the greatest reward. Note how many e-mails we receive telling us we have won a lottery we never entered and offering us something apparently for nothing. It is now 2006, and for the past 72 years I have spent my life trying to juggle what monies I have so that I can maximize what they provide for me in material necessities and comforts. My resolution is to change that attitude. Money is only a means (but not the only one) of providing for oneself and in my case I am totally responsible for my welfare. I have decided that I will no longer allow myself to feel personally wounded when it suddenly costs me twice as much from my finite pension to drive my car or eat dinner. I will spend what I must spend to live the best I can and trust that somehow I will be able to proceed. My psyche will be the richer for it.
I have spent the greater part of this year fighting a woman who robbed me of over 1600 dollars and all that time spent battling her could have been spent writing a new book, painting a marvelous picture, developing a fabulous comedic routine. What a terrible waste! And it is all the more of a tragedy because my own time is finite. I know not how much longer I have to enjoy the challenging life I have created. I can no longer worry if I have enough money to go the places I want to see or accomplish the goals I have set my sights upon. I must just DO them and trust to I know not whom that the bounty of the universe will provide. I must not waste my precious moments fighting those who rob me....and every single woman of a certain age has experienced the same profound insult to her integrity ...but let their own karma destroy them. This is not my role. My job now is to live joyously and out loud.
And I will.