AARP the Secret of Shelter Island by Alexander Green

Author:Alexander Green
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2010-05-11T04:00:00+00:00

How do we do this? We can re-order our lives so that they are less hectic, less stressful.

We all have problems. But as author Robert Ringer used to say, whatever your troubles, the odds are small that anyone is going to throw you up against a wall and pull out a machine gun. We can start improving the quality of our lives simply by changing our perspective.

And we can accept that if something is missing in our lives, it is probably a sense of gratitude, not material possessions.

Take a moment to appreciate your incredible good fortune just to be alive. As Oxford biologist Richard Dawkins writes in Unweaving the Rainbow:

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.

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