The Big Question



	THE BIG QUESTION YOU CAN LEARN SO MUCH ABOUT YOURSELF FROM ONE TINY DETAIL OF YOUR BEHAVIOR, LIKE HOW YOU ANSWER THE BIG QUESTION. THE BIG QUESTION IS ALWAYS CHANGING - THIS WEEK: You wake up in the morning. Its a beautiful day. You're making breakfast and the toast gets stuck in the toaster. It starts to burn so you unplug the toaster and spend twenty minutes picking crumbs out of the bottom. This makes you late for work and you miss an important phone call. As a result the carefully constructed financial empire you have worked on for years collapses like a house of cards. The BIG question is: WHOSE FAULT IS IT? THE TOASTER FOR BEING TOO SMALL THE BREAD FOR BEING TOO BIG YOUR FAULT, BECAUSE YOU ARE REALLY A WORTHLESS NOTHING WHO JUST FOOLS THE WORLD INTO THINKING YOU ARE OK YOUR WIFE'S FAULT FOR BUYING A BRAND OF BREAD THATS TO BIG TO FIT INTO THE TOASTER YOUR MOTHER'S FAULT FOR BUYING YOU A TOASTER THAT CAN'T HANDLE LARGE BREAD THE MAN WHO DESIGNED THE TOASTER, JUST TO SAVE A FEW BUCKS HE MADE IT TOO SMALL TO HANDLE LARGE BREAD WHICH RUINED YOUR ENTIRE LIFE. THE SUPREME BEING'S FAULT, BECAUSE HE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING NO ONES FAULT IN THIS BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE WORLDS. ALL THINGS ARE BALANCED ON A HIGHER ENERGY PLANE THAN OURS INTO A PERFECT HARMONY OF ONENESS OF WHICH WE ARE A DELIGHTED PART NO MATTER HOW MISERABLE WE SEEM TO BE AT THE MOMENT, SEEING THINGS AS WE DO THROUGH A VEIL OF ILLUSION. REMEMBER, BEFORE OUR CIVILIZATION CAN ADVANCE TO A HIGHER LEVEL WE ALL MUST ANSWER: THE BIG QUESTION AND NOW... PHILOSOPHY OF THE WEEK It's hard to have a philosophy these days. The times are changing so rapidly and we ourselves are changing everyday. What was a perfect philosophy last week is no good today, much like computer software that's obsolete by the time you get it home. The world changes out from under our great ideas and we are always being dumped into a new game with new rules. Still one must try to pull it all together with a few simple rules that will always hold true, always make sense, and always make us think we know what we are doing, no matter how wrong we may actually be. So here is a perfectly good philosophy for this week. In life only two things are important: SHOWING UP FEELING GOOD Showing Up - All through school all you did was show up. Now you can read and write and vote and fill out forms and wait in line and make change and identify animals and cross the street and millions of other things you learned. Just because you showed up. Every morning we show up. Scientist know that when we sleep every one of us is a genius like Einstein. When we cross the border and wake up however we all become really dumb. This is a sacrifice we gladly make to exist on this level and enjoy physical pleasure, which is the gateway to a paradise that seems to have no other door. Wherever you show up is where you are, and who you are is where you've been. Your whole history is mostly just a list of the places where you've showed up. SO MAKE UP YOUR MIND WHERE YOU WANT BE AND THEN REMEMBER...ALWAYS SHOW UP! FEEL GOOD! AND BE GREAT! Other Columns Getting Ready For The Digital Decade What you WON'T have to know! The Same Old Thing YES! You can solve all of your problems by doing the same old thing! Spring Cleaning You're living in a zoo! Why not set some animals free? Snap Out Of It It's time to make up your mind! Accept the slob you are or become the slob you want to be!