How’s your day going?
I can’t really talk about it (as you’ll see below) but I was just introduced to the club. Apparently, all human-beings of goodwill are by default in the club. They remain in the club by following the four rules, and three guidances.
Four Rules:
1) Do check to see that the club is having a great day.
2) Do help the club have a great day, whenever possible.
3) As much as possible, avoid talking about the club.
4) Don’t monetize or profit from the club.
Three Guidances:
1) Check to see that the club is having a great day by using the club greeting – How’s your day going?
2) Nobody needs to pretend to be having a great day, so if they aren’t that’s cool.
3) You can also help the club have a great day by having a great day yourself and by sharing the club’s four rules and three guidances with fellow human beings of goodwill.
Here I am breaking rule 3 again, but I have to say that this is about as cockamamie and utopian a scheme I’ve ever heard of.
And yet, the idea that we are all members of a club that spans the world, and that you can only flunk out by not being of “goodwill” or trying to monetize it is compelling.
Have a great day.
I appreciate the sentiment, anyway. A for effort.
Spoken like a true human being of goodwill.
Not bad. Thanks for asking. A little too nice to be cooped up inside, but i was recently moved at work out of a basement and to a room with a window, so that’s pretty sweet.
My wife woke me up b/c I was snoring, so the rest of the night I slept poorly worrying about snoring and waking up said wife. Allergy season is here
You are a good person.
Saturday I was in rare form too! You should have been there!
You mean Friday?
I am the master of my domain (Seinfeld).
Which always reminds me of William Henley poem Invictus.
….It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
It’s a bit solemn, but a constant reminder that I am responsible for my own happiness, successes, and failures. and when the counting is done, I am hopeful that the successes will outweigh the failures and that I was happy more often than not.. I am having a great day because I choose to regardless of the crap I have to deal with.
I sense a lot of connectedness in your comment. Being able to imagine that your are a sturdy lone wolf is one of the many fruits of privilege. I think this is more for people with much less connectedness than you. .
Checking in on you…asking if you are having a great day is somewhat superfluous, isn’t it?
Nah, it’s not that I’m a sturdy lone wolf, it’s that I have become adept at managing expectations. I expect everything of myself and nothing of anyone else. I’m never disappointed in others because I have no expectations of them. When others exceed those lack of expectations I am pleasantly surprised and always grateful.
And yeah, it’s superfluous. Still, it’s nice to be asked. You exceeded my expectations and for that I am grateful.
I biked the boards and on the beach in Rehoboth.
mouse… 👑 of the humblebag.
humblebrag …
I like that term