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A Phenomenon Of Freedom
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| 1-8 Prager 776-877-243-7776. | |
| Do you have recommendations to people on how to handle it? | |
| That's another one because a lot of people are listening right now. | |
| And you might have a thought on how to make this more tolerable. | |
| Or do you go to work? | |
| Thank you. | |
| I can tell you from the traffic patterns, not many people are going to work where I live in Southern California. | |
| I now, anywhere I go, I get there as if it were Christmas morning. | |
| I mean, it's a phenomenon. | |
| The time we're living in is a phenomenon. | |
| This is a classic example of the Chinese curse, may you live in interesting times. | |
| Though, the irony is, they're interesting times, but you may not be having an interesting life right now. | |
| I mean, basically, most Americans right now are under house arrest. | |
| Now you know what house arrest is. | |
| It's generally considered... | |
| A bad thing. | |
| People don't get sentenced to house arrest and go, whoa, what a chance to clean up the house and reconnect with my loved one. | |
| On the other hand, this is not permanent. | |
| So how is it working out? | |
| I'm thinking about it. | |
| So if you... | |
| The trick here, if I may say, offer some advice, is that what is critical is not to complain. | |
| I think this is a good time to adopt some of my theories of the happiness hour. | |
| I'm against complaining generally. | |
| It doesn't do anything. | |
| I mean, or maybe reserve 10 minutes. | |
| I'm not baby. | |
| I'm serious. | |
| Reserve a 10-minute period each day to say what's really annoying you. | |
| Not about the other person. | |
| I don't think that's a good idea. | |
| But just about the situation. | |
| But here's another thing. | |
| Maybe I'll talk about this during the happiness hour. | |
| This is an example of where it is critical to react positively. | |
| And I am a skeptic of the quarantine, and I'm saying this. | |
| This is the only freedom we truly have in life, is how we react to what happens. | |
| You and I are not free to determine whether we can go to a restaurant. | |
| You can't go. | |
| Or a movie. | |
| Or a sporting event. | |
| It's just because they're not happening. | |
| You can't go. | |
| They're not open. | |
| Our only freedom. | |
| This is from Viktor Frankl. | |
| Our only freedom, true freedom, is how we react. | |
| So maybe this will be my happiness hour theme because I probably want to incorporate what's happening into the happiness hour. | |
| But it's take, make, As much lemonade out of this lemon. | |
| And for some of you, it's a very, very hard thing to do. | |
| If you're a waiter, a waitress, or as they now say, server. | |
| I don't know why that's a preferable. | |
| I know why it's a preferable term, but I don't think it's a preferable term. | |
| But if that's what, then you, you're not making a living. | |
| I work out three days a week with a personal trainer at a gym. | |
| She's not having any income now. | |
| That's how she makes her money, is from her clients. | |
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Anyway, Let Me Go
00:02:35
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| When did I last have a session? | |
| It was, I guess, Sunday. | |
| Yeah, Sunday was open, and it was my last one. | |
| There weren't too many people there, but I would continue to go. | |
| The law of logic would prevail that not hugging anybody at the gym, everybody keeps that distance anyway, I would have continued to go. | |
| It's not easy. | |
| I know what she's doing. | |
| She's spending all day now with her newborn. | |
| That's probably in some ways a blessing. | |
| But the income is an issue. | |
| All right, everybody. | |
| Let's see how you're doing with your significant other. | |
| Walt. | |
| In Seattle, Washington. | |
| Hi, Walt. | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| Hi. | |
| Can you hear me okay? | |
| I certainly can. | |
| Oh, wonderful. | |
| Hey, Dennis, you're a wonderful man. | |
| I'm a longtime listener, first-time caller. | |
| Thank you for all of that. | |
| And I'm also Ukrainian, which is neither here nor there, but I admire you very, very much. | |
| Well, thank you. | |
| You know, for whatever reason, I have a lot of Ukrainian listeners in Seattle. | |
| Yes. | |
| I came to this country in 1961, and I was born in Ukraine. | |
| But anyway, let me, if it's okay with you, I don't want to take too much time. | |
| We're doing really well. | |
| My girlfriend's 79, and I just turned 69 on March 16th. | |
| We've been in a lockdown for two weeks now, so this is not new to us. | |
| This is our third week. | |
| And you know what? | |
| We do stuff like crossword puzzles. | |
| She likes to do circle the word kind of a thing. | |
| We're both recovering alcoholics. | |
| We actually have gone so far as to even have a meeting of our own, just she and I, because, you know, we can't go to AA meetings. | |
| So, you know what? | |
| It's just another way of me loving her. | |
| We've been together for four years, and I had a choice of either being away from her for two weeks or I could be with her thanks to her very kind, compassionate person that's in charge of this retirement home. | |
| All right. | |
| Good man. | |
| I'm glad it is working out. | |