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I challenge you all to ask yourself three questions before you go bananas over something:
1. Does it directly affect my welfare, or tjat of my family or my friends?
2. Does it prevent me from living my life the way I choose?
3. Does it significantly alter my perception of myself in a negative way?
Trust me, it's a much better way to live. It makes for much less stress.
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My turn on the soapbox:
Not trying to step on anyone's toes and I mean no offense to anyone...but if you seriously think the answer to all three questions is a big "yes," please re-read them and really take the time to THINK about your answer. Let's say 'Price' was canceled. Does that
really affect your welfare in the grand scheme of things? Seriously. I've been a fan of the show since before many of you were even born. It has always been a big tradition in my life. But you know, things change and we have to deal with it.
One of the best friends I've ever had is moving to the other side of the country in six days. I'm sure I'll see him again some day...I may even work up the nerve to fly out there some time. But he's not going to be here in town so we can catch lunch. He's not going to be around so we can hang out. Sure, he'll still be a phone call or an email away, but it won't be the same. The grief -- yeah, actual grief..who would have thought -- I feel over seeing him and his family move so far away is about a thousand times more intense a feeling than what I felt when Barker signed off for the last time and about a million times more intense a feeling than what I felt about the possibility of a video wall or a purple wheel.
My point in bringing that up is this: I'm a LF&T. Always have been. But folks, 'Price' is a television show: if this show is more important --
really more important -- to you than your family or your friends, or your job, or the rest of your life, then I urge you to stop and rethink things. Your priorities are out of whack. And I mean that in the nicest way possible, because even though we always find new things to disagree about, we're all united for the same reason here, and we ought to be able to be a little honest with each other once in a while.
I'll miss 'Price' when it goes away...and I hope that won't be for many more years to come. But one day it'll happen. And it's not going to be the day my whole world ends. I genuinely hope for all of you, those I've gotten to know well over the years and those I've never had an exchange with at all, that it isn't the day yours ends, either.
Some things are more important than a television show, folks. If you can't grasp that, then I'm afraid you're going to be in for a rough, rough life. (And I'm older than most of you, so you'll just have to trust me on that.) Sometimes, it's okay to turn the TV off and go live your life.