Garfield says it best

Let’s face it, as a nation-no, as a species-we’re dumb and getting dumber. People are eating a big bowl of stupid for breakfast with a side order of folly. Just turn on the tube and watch some boob stick his tongue into a beehive. You’d swear Einstein was watching Fear Factor when he said: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not so sure about the universe. I’m telling you, if aliens landed at our place, they’d report no intelligent life on Earth!

Telemarketer should start their calls with "May I speak to the moron of the house?".

Many people don't even seem to be able to think for themselves these days, we are versing thoughts and ideas that aren't even ours. We need instructions for everything these days, and we don't even attempt in figuring things out on our own.

I was browsing some pages on the net today and I stumbled upon this site and I read:

Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatiations have intelligibility and veracious vivacity, without rodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous prolixity, psittaceous vacuity ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloquent vapidity. Shun double-entendres, prurient jocosity, and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent!!

Well, I had to use the dictionary several times! Suddenly I thought, “I love dictionaries!” Indeed I do, and I’d be lost without them. Dictionaries are a place where words live. Big words, little words, useless words and snazzy jazzy words.

DICTIONARY = Reference book containing words usually alphabetically arranged along with their forms, pronunciations, functions, etymologies, meanings, and syntactical and idiomaritic uses.

I’ve always been fascinated with BIG words. It’s always been easier for me to write than to speak when it comes to the use of this language that isn’t mine. I figure that if I can’t pronounce it, I want to at the very least know it. I’ve always found it somewhat sexy to hear someone use difficult, obscure ‘big’ words perhaps because it stimulates my brain and therefore other areas. I believe my brain is connected to the rest of my body. However, there is also much substance in simplicity which most of us have lost completely. In other words, it’s ok to talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly and truthfully. Say what you mean; mean what you say.

Most people make finding happiness way too complicated. You don’t need to be rich, or handsome, or famous to find bliss. I’m sure somewhere there are poor, ugly, unknown people who are perfectly happy. For me happiness is sleeping through a Monday;) Or simply being in the company of my closest friends.

Speaking of ‘friends’, the Beatles song once sang, “I get by with a little help from my friends.” Without friends whom would we share our hopes, dreams with? While my best friends will always be me, myself, and I, I still need my ‘friends’. And while we may have our ups and downs, I wouldn’t trade my friends for anything, although I might be tempted by a 60” plasma wide-screen TV;)

I admit it; I’m a movie junkie. I love films of most genres mostly comedies, dramas, mysteries and documentaries, and even the occasional musical (Grease to name one). However I won’t mindlessly watch just anything. Luckily there are still a lot of fine films released every year.

There is also the occasional ‘love story’ which still gives us the ideal of romance we long for but don’t necessarily believe in anymore, that ‘gone with the wind’ kind of passionate love, or the ‘notebook’ type where you find eternal commitment to one’s heart. Love sweet love. What is the many splendor thing that conquers all, makes fools of us all and makes the world go round? More has been written about love than any other subject. Love can be characterized as anything from madness, to an itch to the heart or a pain in the brain. Love can be blind, it can be two hearts beating as one or song sung by two. It can even be a score of zero in tennis. Puccini’s song “nessun dorma” describes the powerful emotions of “love” like no other, and Pavarotti' voice delivers them flawlessly. All this stuff adds up to a headache for me. I prefer to keep it simple. I love my son, my family, my friends, my food and myself. Call it safe? I’d rather think of it as waiting to find that somewhere I have never traveled (ee cummings).

Life’s like that.