"Life does not have to be that tough."  A rather obvious statement, right? 
Well apparently not obvious enough for most people.  From what I've observed in my 48 yrs on this planet, people continue to go out of their way time and again to make life as difficult and as painful as humanely  possible.  Personally I think it's all a little sick.  Yes, I know, we  all say or do things that we wish we had not, but there appears to be a proponderance of people who seem to enjoy making extremely poordecisions.  painful decisions.  I'm talking about decisions that can just really screw ones lifes up. sometimes for a lifetime.  Decisions like doing drugs; drinking to excesson a constant basis; getting into fights[ this looks REALLY bad as you get into your 30's,40's, & 50's ]; voting for the same stupid, corrupt, lying jerks over and over, [like
someday they will actually do what they say they will do, right......}; misspending your money and then complaining you're broke; smoking for 30yrs and then mad because you have cancer, so you sue the tobacco companies; acting like a 3 yr old all the time and  then wondering why you don't have many friends; and the list goes on.  I will discuss these and others at greater length in the following chapters.

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