How do you define happiness?

Written by David Leonhardt


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Spammers also waste emails on replacing body parts we never had and enhancing body parts we could never have, when what we really want is to know God better.

Here is a typical spammer email: "Hair loss? We just releasedrepparttar miracle cure. Grow your hair back thicker than a wooly mammoth preparing forrepparttar 132560 next ice age. This is worth a gazillion dollars, but you get it free for just pennies a day. Give me your credit card number before midnight tonight. I can't afford to offer this price for long. Beware phony products that drip funny colors in your face or make hair grow in allrepparttar 132561 wrong places. This isrepparttar 132562 real thing!"

Instead, spammers should be saying: "Faithless? Book your luncheon withrepparttar 132563 Pope, dinner withrepparttar 132564 Dalai Lama and a one-on-one chat with Moses. Reserve your seat free for just a handful of pennies. Give me your credit card number before midnight tonight. Act now. I can't afford to offer this price for long. Beware phony reservations for meetings with Michael Jackson and other fake gods. This isrepparttar 132565 real thing!"

Byrepparttar 132566 way, Mother Nature was also a part of many definitions of happiness. So take your family down byrepparttar 132567 river for a prayer. And if you can lend a helping hand to a chipmunk or a duck, you'll berepparttar 132568 perfect definition of happiness.

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Maybe I Can Drive That Car

Written by Steve J. Murray


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How can I be an alcoholic when I work, play, and function in society without any problems?

Let’s say your driving downrepparttar road, fully in control of your vehicle, when all of a suddenrepparttar 132557 tire blows out. You are not prepared for this, and you hitrepparttar 132558 brakes. The car swerves and hits another vehicle. You come to a stop. There were no injuries to your wife, kids, orrepparttar 132559 other driver. You could say that all’s well because you didn’t hurt anyone. But if we are honest about it, you did damage to your car andrepparttar 132560 other persons car. They will be without a car for a while. You will be without a car for a while. Think about all that will be affected byrepparttar 132561 accident. You will, and your family will, have to make major adjustments to their life. The other driver will have to make major changes also. In addition to this, there will be much apprehension every timerepparttar 132562 wife, kids, co-worker and others get into a car that your in control of. The stress alone will affect everybody around you- yet you maintain to yourself and everybody else, that you are in control and there is nothing to fear. In your mind you are right. Put this scenario into play about your drinking. Is it notrepparttar 132563 same? You feel fully functional, but yet when a problem arises you don’t reactrepparttar 132564 right way and there is damage done- although in your mind you may feel you handledrepparttar 132565 situation correctly. Just look around you, and intorepparttar 132566 faces of those you love, and you will see a different perspective. I remember someone saying, “I want to die peacefully,repparttar 132567 way my granddad did, not likerepparttar 132568 others inrepparttar 132569 car who were all screaming hysterically.”

Maybe I Can Drive That Car / Alcohol and Drug Addiction Survival Kit are NI-COR TM / Copyright © 2003 NI-COR. All rights reserved.

I have worked in the chemical dependency and mental health field for 15 years. I have owned and operated my own 50 bed treatment center, annd taught substance abuse education at the corporate level, and am a board member for numerous agencies.


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