Well said! You touched on a couple key principles that I try, though unsuccessfully at times, to live my life by. There's a lot of truth to the "life is what you make it" slogan. You want happiness? Be happy. You want success? Be successful. I'm not going to say it's always roses and rainbows for me, but as a recovering former anxiety whack job whose been off his meds for nearly 20 years, I'm doing pretty damned adequate! I thoroughly enjoyed your post!