Story

      "In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, 'Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you.' And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, 'Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest.' So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day."
                                                                                                                            --Tom Waits

The Meaning of Life

In my arrogance, I believed I was the only person to have figured this out. Imagine my surprise when I found this:

"Whats the point of life?
 To have to fun and try not to hurt anyone.
Enjoy friends, family, loved ones, laugh, sing, eat, drink, run, jump, create, help, share, work hard, muck about, sleep, dream, be well, die with dignity, be remembered."
                                                                                       --Ricky Gervais.