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About a week ago I woke up grumpy.
I don’t do it often, but every once in a while I set aside the time, just to stay in practice.
Usually during these grumpy mornings I am well out of my mood by the time I enter into the actual work of the day. But on this particular occasion, I languished in my self-pity and remained grumpy well past the noon hour.
When I finally emerged from my dark cloud, a thought came to my mind. I realized that I had luxuriated in my vice of “cranky,” never considering that if my reaction—my temperament—were multiplied by eight billion, we would be in a helluva lot of trouble.
What would happen if the entire world woke up grumpy?
Certainly by nightfall—and I do not exaggerate—we would be involved in a thermonuclear war. We would blow everybody’s ass to Kingdom Come for daring to be grumpy on the morning we had reserved for the privilege.
Think about it.
We’re always so critical of life—and even one another—yet fortunately, we don’t all decide to go nutzoid at the same time.
There’s always someone who, when the idea of bungy jumping comes up, frowns and expresses some negative points that eventually bring the room to sense, which prevents us from jumping off a bridge head-first, at the mercy of an exaggerated rubber band.
Moving on from grumpy…
How about hungry?
If every person in the world woke up hungry—all eight billion of us—we’d have a situation.
Because the truth is, everyone in the world does wake up hungry. But fortunately, most of them don’t complain because all they have for their bagel is unflavored cream cheese. If the whole world woke up hungry and fussy over the choices provided, by nightfall the entire face of this planet would be overrun in terrorism.
How about horny?
Would we be dealing with rape and incest, not to mention a proliferation of babies conceived that we might not be prepared for?
Just simply this: if everybody in the world—all eight billion souls—decided next Tuesday to wake up sleepy (as I oft contend to be) how many airplane crashes would there be?
It is fortunate—even divinely inspired—that the human race does not destroy itself merely by sharing common vices at exactly the same moment.
Can you imagine four hundred people going to the DMV on Magnolia Street on the same day, who all arrive in a murderous rage?
It gives a whole new meaning to the phrase, “Yield to Oncoming Traffic.”
Don’t you find this significant?
Stop—let this change your life.
We are not alone. If we were alone, we would find a way to line up our bad attitudes in agreement, point them at one another and destroy all that we are.
In the midst of every grumpy, hungry, horny and sleepy human gathering, there are some souls who have have chosen to wake up
…kind.
Yay-yay!
Sometimes it’s a choice. There are special occasions when the pillow is exceptionally soft, and the mercy of a good night’s sleep turns us almost angelic.
But every single day, if four billion people wake up nasty, then, in order to balance things out, we are required to have four billion waking up kind.
And these kind people provide three essential gifts:
- They water down the hate so it’s not so poisonous.
- They spice up the boredom, so it doesn’t cause us to have a cranial meltdown.
- And they sweeten the disposition, so we do not aggravate one another.
The world is not without hope.
Jonathots Daily Blog 
G-Poppers … July 6th, 2018
G-Pop just spent a week with family members–some coming in all the way from China.
It put him in both a joyous and a reflective mood–joyous to see all the cubs from the Bear Clan returning to their cave, but reflective because he did some deep wondering about what this whole process of living is all about.
It comes down to two words: influence or affluence.
In other words, are we on a journey to influence the planet and people around us in a positive way, or is it all about accumulating wealth, houses, status and family members, thus showcasing our affluence?
You certainly can be affluent without having influence on anything, and as we well know, you can express your influence and not have two quarters to rub together.
Influence: doing stuff.
Affluence: getting stuff.
Amazingly, there is no award for our children when they are spiritual, but we give them money if they make us look like amazing parents by scoring that goal, thus passing on the impression that the best way to gain affluence is to minimize influencing, but just “learn the rules and win.”
As G-Pop sat and stared at his children, he wondered how many were out to influence the world and how many had already decided that the journey is about becoming affluent.
Of course, you must have enough goods and money that you don’t appear to be a deadbeat and a burden on others. But can that be a stopping point? When you finally discover how to cover your budget, eat well and have some extra cash to help others, can you stay ashore and not launch out into the sea with all the cutthroat pirates?
G-Pop decided a long time ago that he wanted to influence the Earth instead of merely being affluent. It’s amazing how good a plate of beans tastes, and how little buttered lobster is required in that moment.
It just depends how hungry you are when you show up.
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