Wisdom from Sid

A small shingle nail in my left rear tire, causing a slow leak, brought me to the BP gas station on Stateline, and closer to Sid Willens, who happened to be there at the same time. He sent me a copy of his Charles N Kimbal Lecture, which contains many words of wisdom. Among them: Never say yes when you want to say no. The surest way to failure is to try to please everybody. Treat all disasters as mere incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. It's amazing the special attention you receive when you make people laugh and smile. Research shows that people who lose themselves in the service of others live longer, have stronger immune systems, have fewer heart attacks, and have a deeper sense of meaning and purpose than those who work only for the buck. The next time the doctor says not to worry you'll live to 75 and you are 75, laugh and say you found a doctor who didn't lie to you.
Sid is setting a wonderful example for all of us in living a happy life, dedicated to helping others.