Some brief and lighthearted humour here.

Not long ago, in a deep and philosophical moment, I decided that I might like to have a Tshirt printed that said “Could somebody please point to Abroad on a map for me?”. Well, I just stumbled across a lovely little edition of the webcomic at XKCD.com entitled “Terminology”, which makes the point nicely (Gawd bless you America!)…

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Here’s an alternative text just for all you cynics out there who hate email circulars about divine happiness and growth:

Thoughts for today

Maybe we need to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one so that when we finally meet the right person we know how to be grateful for the gift: and when we’ve finally pissed them off enough so much that they leave, we are fully aware of what dickheads we truly are.

When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one which has just been opened for us: nor the bus load of people who just shot past us and got their first and slammed it shut firmly behind them right in our faces.

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