Saturday: Not a Snippet, but a Smile

 

Again, time ran too short this week for me to select a book to excerpt for our Saturday Snippet.  I'm afraid that due to the burden of too much to do in too little time, that's likely to be an ongoing problem.  Some weeks I'll manage it;  other weeks, I won't.  Therefore, on weeks when I can't manage to put together a Saturday Snippet, I'll put up a (quicker and easier to prepare) Saturday Smile instead.

Today we have one from Stephan Pastis and his "Pearls Before Swine" comic strip.  Click the image to be taken to a larger version at the strip's Web page.

It's funny how often I've run into Rat's point of view about being happy.  Happiness is, fundamentally, a choice (albeit easier to choose if the circumstances of our lives are more conducive to it).  Nevertheless, there are those who will always choose the negative, being gloomy no matter how well things are going.  They would probably call themselves realists, rather than pessimists;  but they're too often a downer for the rest of us to deal with.

It's worth remembering that - if only to ensure we don't make the same mistake.  I've done so on occasion, and always had cause to regret it later.  Mea culpa!

Peter