Perspective

Granny always told me that a man with body odor MIGHT or MIGHT NOT be able to smell himself. I'll take that narrative one step further and add that at some point he will likely become so ripe that even HE won't be able to deny there is a problem. In the meantime, everyone that is within a twenty-foot radius of him (but especially downwind) will eventually be offended and upended. That's what is known in finer circles as perspective.

Everything my old man did in his lifetime was ironic, even if it was purely by accident. He married his fourth wife (at least in part) because she was born without, her olfactory sense. In other words, she had no sense of smell. In addition, he (famously or infamously depending on your point of view) stated in his mid-fifties that he was (and I quote) "sick of showering." Sounds like a match made in heaven to me, what are your thoughts? Evidently in her childhood as her siblings would talk about how good the house smelled when granny was baking bread, she had no clue what they were talking about, the sensation was totally lost on her. I always felt like she might have missed the mark on the career front. It seems to me that a person born with those kinds of smelling "gifts" should be removing the scent glands from skunks, surely that kind of gig would pay well. Suddenly removing roadkill from highways doesn't sound like such a bad job if you couldn't smell anything. My guess is you could likely make your own hours, and the boss wouldn't ever want to be close enough to you to micromanage any part of it. Just remember, for every losing proposition in life there is also a win. And a win is a win, even if it is just a field goal.

Perspective has a tendency to change our point of view, or at the very least or focus. For instance, it's nearly impossible to fret over the expiration date of a gallon of milk if your leg is caught in a bear trap. See my point? The timeliness on filing your taxes would no doubt take a back seat of importance if your wife of 25 years told you calmy she wanted a divorce. If the boss tells you he is finally going to give you that raise you needed so badly after twenty years but that the following pay period would be your last. Let me see if I can illustrate this point from a larger point of view. On a normal day if someone flew a plane into the Pentagon that would no doubt be the lead story, but not on 9-11. Perspective fills our lives like a JFK parade in Dallas, like Hillary after Monica, and like a hunting trip with Dick Cheney.

It's been talked about lately that former "former sexy bombshell" Pam Anderson and Liam Neeson are somewhat of an item after having done a movie together. I put the words former sexy bombshell in quotes in the last sentence because that was how they were worded in an article I read. To think that people are so fixated on sex that they believe a woman's only job in life is to arouse men is one-sided, predictable, and frankly a little sad. This just goes to show that after all of these years of looking at glossy photos of Pam we find out she is not just an empty vase. Pam is now throwing us off our game mentally because she was always well known for dating rockers like Tommy Lee and Kid Rock. I'm certain Mr. Neeson has never tried to mainline a bottle of Jack Daniels and that Tommy never tried to balance a teacup on his lap or attempt to attend Julliard. It helps when a man knows his limitations and stays in his own lane. Pam is now well past middle-age, and I have no doubt she finds these differences... well let's call them refreshing. Pamela has gone from a woman with flawless good looks, fake breast implants, and barbed wire tattoos to a woman who enjoys going makeup free everywhere and enjoys digging in her garden. Frankly I find the latest incarnation of the woman more interesting. Being hot is all fine and good but when beauty fades it helps to have something to talk about. That's called perspective!