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I want to die young at a ripe old age.
-- Ashley Montagu
 

 

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Seriousness

Many of the worst problems can be avoided by living with a healthy amount of seriousness. After all, where seriousness is absent and pettiness reigns, disaster looms.

Steer clear of that pettiness. Let it consume itself on its own, without your participation, without your observation.

Invest your attention in the beauty, opportunities, challenges, satisfactions, and lessons of reality. There’s plenty of reality to go around.

You have all sorts of ways to bring new goodness and richness into being, and to share the experience with others. Do so with the joy it naturally brings, with plenty of good humor, and also with seriousness.

It’s great to enlighten yourself and deepen your understanding by entertaining all sorts of fantastic concepts. Yet keep yourself firmly grounded in reality and the sober seriousness it demands.

Enjoy each moment, have lots of fun. And live with enough seriousness so that the joy and fun will endure.

— Ralph Marston

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