My Two Cents

We all have something to say.

Our two cents.

I think it is the fundamental need of people – to be HEARD.  Listened to, yes, but moreso heard.  How else can you explain the explosion of blogging and reality television and YouTube?

So today I have some “cents” to spend…

I saw a Charlie Brown Halloween Special commercial where they had the voice of Charlie Brown rapping a song – finishing with Chaz saying “Word.”  I thought – what?  Is this a new version of the ever popular “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown?”  I read that it was just a “promotion” angle and that they hadn’t changed the classic show…thank God.  In my world, Charlie Brown don’t rap yo…

First impressions are everything.  Nothing else needs to be said here.  Make a good one.

I crashed the other night at my friend Sheila’s apt in NJ after a night out with some girlfriends.  I slept on an air mattress which we attempted to blow up late at night – with a battery operated “blower” that lacked juice.  The result was I basically slept on the floor with the air mattress surrounding me, like a hotdog in a bun.  I had a blanket but no mustard.  I thought how funny to be 47-years-old and sleeping like a college student.  Many a high-maintenance woman would’ve cringed.  I smiled.

You either exude a positive or a negative energy about you…make that choice.  How do you want to be known?

I read this quote today – “Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.”  Most of us have heard the first part – to live each day to it’s fullest, as if it’s your last….BUT, learn as if you were to live forever?  How cool is that?  That message – to keep learning….and my belief, is that as long as you live, if you are open to it, you WILL keep on learning…evolving.  Life is a learning experience.  We don’t reach some invisible finish line where we should stop absorbing, questioning, wondering.  Being curious is being alive.  Learn everything – learn as if you were to live forever.  I love it.

That’s five cents today actually.  Inflation.  And I have alot to say.