{"id":2083,"date":"2021-04-12T07:47:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2021-04-12T07:47:43","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:47:43","slug":"the-good-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeservis.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/12\/the-good-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Good Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Good life
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You might be highly frustrated today. But it’s a good life anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People might cheat you, lie to you, and blame you for problems they themselves create. Even so, life has infinite capacity for goodness and fulfillment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A whole lot of things cause you a whole lot of trouble. Yet when you step back and take a good, clear look, you see without question that life is well worth the trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s all too easy to imagine sometimes that things are hopeless. But then you remember you’ve survived a lot worse, and in fact thrived, and so have many, many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, at times life is tough. And it is precisely those times that enable you to see how very good life can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whatever the situation, life is good when you decide it is good. And it’s your decision to make right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

— Ralph Marston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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