November 2012, my 60th birthday

Why it's important that YOU are satisfied

We live in a society that now pressures us to be mediocre...to conform to ever-lowering standards.  Some of it comes from government, some comes from psychologists who want us to believe "everyone is a winner," and some of it comes from friends who'd rather we all stayed  chubby like them.

"Why do you need to lose ten more pounds?" someone will ask.  "You look fine."

That's like asking someone, "Why do you need to have another baby?"   Or, "Why do you you need to have such a fast sports car?"  Or "Why do you you need to own that kind of gun?"  or "Why do you need to make that much money?"

All those questions are answerable, but they don't need lengthy justifications.  Simply saying, "Because I  want to" should  suffice.  Yet the best answer is probably just a polite smile and a change of subject.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours. --Ayn Rand

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