If you can, try to like life. Be good humored about your mortality. (William J. Bennett)
A theoretical pessimist, he says he is,
recommending we exercise practical optimism.
Is that doctor-of-philosophy talk for act as if?
Try to like life. Look on the sunny side.
Say with Paul, "I've learned to be content
no matter where I am." I guess theoretical
pessimism says the world will end, sooner, later;
I'll die, one day, maybe today, maybe not;
stuff – sometimes called excrement – happens.
Worry's a rocking chair, keeping you busy,
getting you nowhere. It gives small stuff
immense shadows. I can expect good results
as easy – easier – than bad. I can turn the pessimism,
the worry, over to God. He's going to be up
all night, anyway. What, me worry?
Not today. I'll like life.
recommending we exercise practical optimism.
Is that doctor-of-philosophy talk for act as if?
Try to like life. Look on the sunny side.
Say with Paul, "I've learned to be content
no matter where I am." I guess theoretical
pessimism says the world will end, sooner, later;
I'll die, one day, maybe today, maybe not;
stuff – sometimes called excrement – happens.
Worry's a rocking chair, keeping you busy,
getting you nowhere. It gives small stuff
immense shadows. I can expect good results
as easy – easier – than bad. I can turn the pessimism,
the worry, over to God. He's going to be up
all night, anyway. What, me worry?
Not today. I'll like life.
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