Living The Dream

I have always liked this popular phrase. Like most obvious aspects of life, it is not such an obvious, simple concept once examined.

 To live is not just to breathe air and accept anything experienced without conditions or reservations. To live is to think, to feel, to judge and then act. To live is to mold these successive series of judgments about rapidly received experiences into a pattern of wise existing.

Living well with integrity and God's blessing will bring the grace of God's benevolence into one's being. Thus living well will make one happy. That is living the dream.

One could have steeped oneself in sin and poor decisions. That would lead to living the nightmare.

Go forth. Live the dream. Be happy. Die happy.