I don't find that friends have to make fun of each other to show the other person that they like them. Quite oppositely-- true, loving friends don't really do that. Only neurotic friends do that. I don't have to make fun of my friends to show them that I like them, no, it's actually proving to them that you have only been paying more attention to their faults. How is that uplifting? I actually find it quite debilitating and insulting.. even pestering. Some famous comedian once illuminated that jokes often stem from some degree of truth or rationality. I try to see the positive in people and bring it out. There's no room for negativity when there's something else occupying that space of manifestation. We all have the darkness and negatives within us, by why isolate them and expand them out of mockery? It does nobody any good. People are on their toes all the time, never to relax, and secretly humiliated. That's how animosity is created. The wisest people look before they leap...


Depression is the feeling that you've lost a significant part of you that you will never be able to get back. You're not dead. You don't want to be dead. You just want to be alive without the pain. Amen to that always. But don't regret what has happened. Things are meant to work out as they do. Let the world run its natural course. You can't take it back. No sense in crying over spilled milk. Let it sit there and you allow others to gawk and relish in your mistake. Clean it up, and you show class and dignity. I would rather clean the milk up. Most people either don't clean it up at all or bid others to do it for them. It's not what makes you fall that defines who you are, it's how you go about getting up that does. Remember that.

Class and dignity in hard times is all about preserving yourself in the most proper, uniform way. It's about doing what must logically and morally be done. It's about doing what's right because it's the right thing to do. It is preservation of moral character.