and she said.. "how you interpret the dream is probably more important than the dream itself"

Some people are always needing more out of life.

Get over it folks.. It's not coming.

Sometimes, they want that new car, that new house, or that new job. Sometimes they want new friends and new significant others. Sometimes they just want.

But it doesn't make them any happier. They need to sit down and accept life and work with what comes down the pipe normally.. don't force things with anxious anticipation. Rain gutters don't work under pressure, so why should you? And if you've ever taken the time to check a rain gutter out.. well.. then you know they work pretty well, in general. Which is probably why they're still around. Which probably means there are a few pointers we can all get from our friendly neighbourhood rain gutter. Pointers like:

take it slow, man

just let it happen, dude

and

whatever will be will be

Apparently my rain gutter is a stoner.. and likes the beatles.. but that's besides the point. The point is that we should all chill out just a little bit - everyone down one notch - and the world would probably be a lot better off.

If Bush took it down one notch before this war bullshit, he'd probably have just crushed a beer can on his head and let the thing slide.. but no, he had to get all up and righteous on our asses and now what?

I wouldn't want to be in the desert away from my little kids and my wife and family for a year eating MREs either.

But then again they don't have it too bad either. At least they're eating.

What people need to do is go outside for a second. Turn the A/C off and stretch out on the lawn. Look around at their shithole apartment, look around at the trash on the street and smell the smog on the air, and realize that even with all that - even with their ghetto charcoal grill rusted out on the back steps - life is pretty fucking not-so-bad.

I bet you thought I was going to say pretty fucking grand.

I keep trying to tell you I'm not an optimist.

But optimist or realist or pessimist.. I figure What we all need to do in life is to just work with what we got and the rest will follow.

You could say we should be kneading more out of life.

A Subtle difference perhaps, one only notable in the written word, but a good motto to live your life by nonetheless.