Just finished working out a payment plan to IRS for past income tax due. Was kinda bummed out as I was just finishing paying off hospital bills encurred during my drinking career, when it came to me that the amount of my monthly payments was still significantly less than what I had been paying per month for booze and all of its co-occurent benefits--divorce, loss of job, poor health, low self-esteem, dis-eased feelings and emotions, etc. Life, for all its hills and valleys, is so freaking awesome.
"Since everything is but an illusion,
Perfect in being what it is,
Having nothing to do with good or bad,
Acceptance or rejection,
One might as well burst out laughing!"
- Longchen Rabjam (1308-1363)
