Ever add up the little life's lessons we learn? Ever evaluate that which you had to over come? Recently, while bogged down in my own misery and indulgence in self pity, (not a pretty picture for a tub o' slob that I be) started evaluating those little twists of life that seem to kick a guy square in the crotch, and just as you recover from that one, you get kicked again, and again, and again. Things that were once so incredibly traumatic, seem in retrospect minor and almost nostalgic for those "simpler times". I would expound on personal experience of the past, but they seem so minor now that they are hardly worth mentioning. So during this economic malaise that we are so fortunate to participate, for those whom carry on know that this is for your own good, and shall make you stronger. This shall give you experience. William Shakespeare said, "Sweet are the uses of adversity." I try to take it to heart.