Be Like Betty!

Betty White Is 97 today? Wow! She was born in 1922? DOUBLE WOW!! 

Just think of all she has seen in her lifetime. She missed WW 1, but experienced most everything else in the 20th and beginning of the 21st century....and STILL...here is the important part...STILL, has a sense of humor! (humour, for you readers across the pond)

Now, I could go in to all the thousands of times I have enjoyed watching Betty White on T.V., but I'm sure we ALL share the same story. Betty is even a cult figure among millennials, because she has spunk, like Mary Tyler Moore had. 

Although I used Betty White to slyly lure you to my blog, the REAL point of this is all about YOU and ME.

WE need to keep our senses of humors (humours for you British types) to make life fun in our "bucket" years, instead of a living Hades! 

Hades was the god of the underworld and the name eventually came to also describe the home of the dead as well. He was the oldest male child of Cronus and Rhea. Hades and his brothers Zeus and Poseidon defeated their father and the Titans to end their reign, claiming rulership over the cosmos.

Sidebar...What ever happened to Gary Larson, the guy who created The Far Side cartoon? He was a total comedy genius!

Where was I? Oh, yeah. Our lives would be purgatory without a laugh or two every day.

To go back to Betty for a minute, I like her for another reason. I'm 68 years old and she makes me feel young! She's almost 30 years older than me, still entertaining folks, and still smiling! 

That means that there is a good possibility that you guys will be reading my lighthearted blog for 3o more years!

Okay, who said that would be like a living Hades? 

Ha, ha! I know, I know you're just pulling my leg. 

Right?

Anyway, life is WAY to short to be frowning and scowling (scowling is pretty much the same as frowning) all the time, when we are just bringing our family and friends down to the "pit of despair."

Have you ever noticed how some people are incessantly complaining about their illnesses and problems on Facebook, like they are the ONLY ones who suffer from illnesses and problems? 

We All suffer illnesses and problems, but the cool ones, like Betty White, refuse to bring everybody down with depressing stuff that no one can do anything about, anyway. 

Do you think Betty White, at 97, feels wonderful every day? Heck no! Does she share her aches and pains with the world every day? Heck no! 

Betty White is such a positive example of how making OTHERS happy can make US happy!

In conclusion...