Okay, I admit it – the following is not original – It was sent to me by my ex-ex bereavement counselor (yes, I quit group number 2 – if only it had been this easy to give up smoking)
I’ve racked up three sessions in two groups – if I join another I’m hoping to get credit for the six I suffered through, but I have a feeling I’ll be told it doesn’t work like that. Yeah, well, so far it hasn’t worked PERIOD.
Anyway, the source of the little ditty is “A Whack on the Side of the Head: How You Can Be More Creative” by Roger von Oech. If you have a moment, check out his amazing website.
I’m going to put it on my blogroll http://www.creativethink.com .
WHAT IF WE LIVED LIFE BACKWARDS?
The life cycle is all backwards. You should die first and get it out of the way. Then you live for 20 years in an old-age home, and get kicked out when you’re too young.
You get a gold watch and then you go to work. You work 40 years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement.
You go to college and you party until you’re ready for high school.
Then, you go to grade school, you become a little kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating, and you finish off as a gleam in somebody’s eye.