After Thirty, A Body Has A Mind

We're All Divine, But I Was The Only One Who Had The Nerve To Call Myself That.

In A Marriage, You Struggle And Struggle And Struggle, And Then You Realize That You Have To Ride The Horse In The Direction It's Going. You Stop Trying To Pull The Reins In Another Direction.

There's The Media-driven Universe, In Which The Public Perceives You In A Superficial Way. Then There's The Universe That You Actually Inhabit, Where You Have To Get Up Even If You Didn't Sleep So Well, And You Feel Like Crap And Your Face Is Swollen.

I'm Confident That I'm As Intelligent As Many People, But I Know That I'm Not As Intelligent As Some. So In The Presence Of Hyperintelligent People, I'm A Shrinking Violet Because I Don't Want To Look Like A Fool. I Know A Little About A Lot And A Lot About A Little.

When I Turned 50, I Threw Myself A Big Birthday Party, And I Looked Seriously At What My Life Has Been About. I Recommend This To Everybody. Ask Yourself, "what Have I Done? How Did I Do It? Where'd I Mess Up? Where Did I Do Well?" When I Did This Assessment Of My Life, I Said To Myself, "it Was Really Good." I Made A Lot Of People Laugh, Made A Lot Of People Cry In A Good Way, Brought A Lot Of Joy To People, Picked Up A Lot Of Garbage. And In All Those Years, I Saw A Lot. I Went To Foreign Lands. I Met Interesting People. And I Got It!