The Whole World Stinks!

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While Grandpa is taking a nap on the couch, his seven-year-old grandson gets some Limburger cheese from therefrigerator and smears it on Grandpa’s mustache.

When grandpa wakes up, he says,"This room stinks!" He goes to another room and says, "This roomstinks." After walking throughout the house, he says, "The wholehouse stinks!"

Grandpa goes outside and takes adeep breath and says, "The whole world stinks!"

Your attitude about life does thesame thing.

Examples

1. Your marriage is not going well.You go to a movie and notice how nobody smiles. Couples seem to be bored witheach other. The movie’s happy ending seems phony.

2. Someone’s nasty comment at work makesyour head feel like exploding with anger. While driving home, everyone seemsaggressive and rude. You drive like a dangerous, insane maniac. You think aboutgun ownership.

3. You watch the news on televisionfor a few hours and feel uneasy. You go outside and look at airplanes aspossible threats. You suspect your neighbor might be a bad guy. You jump out ofyour skin when a kid yells, "Bang!"

4. Your business just made a healthyprofit this month. You celebrate at a restaurant where the food tastes greatand the waitress is cheerful. When you go outside, the sunset looks glorious.Everyone seems to be smiling.

Why Life Changes

In an article "Is it Possibleto Be Happy?" L. Ron Hubbard writes:

"You remember when you weremaybe five years old, and you went out in the morning and you looked at theday, and it was a very, very beautiful day, and you looked at the flowers andthey were very beautiful flowers.

"Twenty-five years later youget up in the morning, you take a look at the flowers—they are wilted. The dayisn’t a happy day.

"Well, what has changed? Youknow they are the same flowers, it’s the same world, something must havechanged.

"Probably it was you."

"Actually, a little childderives all of his pleasure in life from the grace he puts upon life. He wavesa magic hand and brings all manner of interesting things into being out in thesociety. Here is this big, strong brute of a man riding his iron steed, up anddown, and boy, he'd like to be a cop. Yes sir! He would sure like to be a cop;and twenty-five years later he looks at that cop riding up and down and checkshis speedometer and says, 'Doggone these cops!'

"Well, what is changed here?Has the cop changed? No. Just the attitude toward him. One's attitude towardlife makes every possible difference in one's living. You know you don't haveto study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needsto be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you."

"The day when you stop buildingyour own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when youstop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic andbeauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful."

Add Some Magic to Your Life

Clear out the smell of Limburgercheese and make your life more enjoyable with this exercise.

1. Look around you. Notice yourimmediate surroundings in present time. Focus on where you are.

2. Think of a way you can make yourenvironment a little more comfortable. Write it down.

3. Think of a way you can make yourenvironment a little more cheerful. Write it down.

4. Think of a way you can make yourenvironment a little more beautiful. Write it down.

5. Do these three things.

6. Repeat as needed until your attitudeand the world around you improves.

The article"Is it Possible to Be Happy?" is in the book Scientology: ANew Slant on Life and available in our bookstore.

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