Why is it that laughter isn't around much? In my time, we were always ready to pull something on someone else, and have fun at doing it. That set that person up to trying to figure out what he or she could do to get back at you. and it wasn't just the kids doing it, because Mom and Dad wanted some fun too. You never did anything to hurt someone, so you had to think up some sort of a trick or story just enough to fool the other person. After a person was treated to whatever we pulled on him or her, he or she was in for a few days of joking about it, until he or she came up with a trick or joke of thier own.

You just don't see any of that anymore. If you pull something on someone, the first thing they want to do is have the police on you, or sue you. Where did the fun go? Where did the thrill of fooling someone go?  Did we just grow too old to enjoy ourselves anymore?  Did we decide to turn our lips upside down from that grin to a frown?   Or is it just time passing us by? Well, here we go with why something is or it isn't.

First off ,we are living in a fast-paced world, where there just isn't any time to start off the day with a good hot breakfast. Either you don't have time ,or you are told that certain foods are no longer any good for you . Take the idea of food not being any good for you, and disect where that came from, and who is telling us that. From the early days of our lives, we are told and instucted to eat three meals a day starting off with a hot breakfast. Then as we grow older and our bodies get a little out of shape, and our bodies get weak, they use the reason that we are eating the wrong type of food and we don't exercise enough. Well , wake up  people, because without starting off that day without the energy derived from that breakfast, you won't feel like exercising. And you've started off the day in a bad mood.

Then we sit in front of the big tube watching all the soap operas and the game shows, and we live the parts of those actors , and we get depressed, and so we sit there eating small snacks that keep getting bigger and bigger all day. Now we are not only in a bad mood but we are depressed too. Then we go to the news on the television and we read the newspapers, and all we hear is that there are people getting killed, assaulted, and robbed, along with the widespread use of drugs by all those "dopes" out there. Boy, we really are in a bad mood and we really are depressed and now we are afraid to leave our homes because of all the trouble out there.

And we ask why don't we have fun anymore. Whatever the answer is , I can't tell you, but I will tell you what I do . First off, I eat what I want because my body will tell me if it is harmful to me. Being a heart patient, I know what my limits are and I follow through on that. I don't watch those silly soap operas, although I have always been a wrestling fan and anymore that is the same as the soap operas.  I don't get depressed because I have found out that it does not get you anywhere and if you learn to control  your self without the use of the drugs prescribed by those who are treating you, and who really don't live with you each day, so there is no way that they really know how you feel, you are so much better off. No one knows any better how you feel but you yourself. And if you use the gift of that brain that The Great Father gave each of us, you can control how you feel.

As to the news on the tube, I am one of those people who believe only what I see and very little of what I hear. Naturally I would be a bad juror because unless I actually saw what another person did, I could not pass any judgement on him or her. And I guess that I would be a poor representative in Congress because I wouldn't back up another's views just to get on friendly terms with them. and I sure wouldn't be any good at being president because I would tell those who were not there to represent the people who voted for them, that they lose their droppings elsewhere.

And last but surely not least, I won't take any drugs not prescibed by a reputable doctor that I trust. It is my body and my mind that I have to take care of and the same goes for each and every one of us. You decide for yourself as to how you feel. You start off the morning feeling good enough to smile, and you pass it on to the next person you meet. Then it's up to him and whomever he or she meets as to how they pass it on. You started it off with a happy note and that is all that counts. You are happy and I know that somewhere down the line someone else is too.

Use the training that you recieved while growing up in using good comman sense as you meet all those headaches head on, and you can't go wrong. The rule is to be happy at what you do each day, and don't let the problems of life grow so large that you can't get through that day. Each morning I thank The Great Father for allowing me one more day and I ask for guiudance from HIM, and that night as I lie down to rest, I thank HIM for letting me get through that day. Will HE give me another day? I have to wake up the next morning to find out. Pretty simple isn't it. As always it has been my pleasure to enter your homes with another visit from Uncle Ray who loves all of you very much.

You can reach me at my e-mail address of [email protected] and catch all my writings at www.geocities.com/kokomoman/  GOD BLESS