Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s verse (part),
“It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.”
always brings to mind a picture of a man, standing in the middle of a landscape of utter devastation, with a silly smile plastered on his face.
I am more of the school represented by a perversion of Kipling’s “If”
“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs, you probably don’t know what’s going on”
However, my wife says that she knows I have another girl friend. I feel reality slipping away from me. Here I stand (a bit unsteadily if you must know), sans teeth, sans hair, sans anything you care to mention. But now I'm thinking, Methusela begat Lamech when he was 187 years old. So perhaps if I put a silly smile on my face….. would that work do you think?
“It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.”
always brings to mind a picture of a man, standing in the middle of a landscape of utter devastation, with a silly smile plastered on his face.
I am more of the school represented by a perversion of Kipling’s “If”
“If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs, you probably don’t know what’s going on”
However, my wife says that she knows I have another girl friend. I feel reality slipping away from me. Here I stand (a bit unsteadily if you must know), sans teeth, sans hair, sans anything you care to mention. But now I'm thinking, Methusela begat Lamech when he was 187 years old. So perhaps if I put a silly smile on my face….. would that work do you think?
