THE DAILY TRAVESTY | Time Waits for No One
T H E  D A I L Y  T R A V E S T Y
 
For March 21, 2000
Volume 1, Issue 53
 
 
Happy Vernal Equinox! (even though it was yesterday... we forgot)
 

 
*SUNDAY, 9 APRIL:  The Jubilee 2000 debt cancellation campaign is organizing a major rally in Washington, DC on Sunday April 9, featuring (invited) speakers such as Bishop Desmond Tutu, Rev. Jesse Jackson, entertainers such as Bono and many others. A lobby day will follow Monday April 13.
 

 
a contributed message from reader Marianne Terrell
 
Happiness...
 
We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are. After that we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with.  We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage.  We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, are able to go on a nice vacation, when we retire.  The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now.  If not now, when? Your life will always be filled with challenges.  It's best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway.  One of my favorite quotes comes from Alfred D Souza.  He said
 
"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life.  But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid.  Then life would begin.  At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life." 
 
This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness.  Happiness is the way.  So, treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because you shared it with someone special enough to spend your time with... and remember that time waits for no one.
 
So... stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until you are off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until your song comes on, until you've had a drink, until you've sobered up, until you die, until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than now to be happy.  Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
 
Of course, there's always the great Ann Landers quote-- "The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead."
 
 
Email marianne terrell_m@yahoo.com
 

hopelessly drift in the eyes of the ghost again  down on my knees and my hands in the air again  pushing my face in the memory of you again  but I never know if it's real  never know how I wanted to feel  never quite said what I wanted to say to you  never quite managed the words to explain to you  never quite knew how to make them believable  and now the time has gone  another time undone  hopelessly fighting the devil futility  feeling the monster climb deeper inside of me  feeling him gnawing my heart away hungrily  i'll never lose this pain