I recently had a birthday and got lots of Happy Birthday wishes, which mostly included “I hope you have a good day”.
I realized that as you get older (and wiser), a good day changes from one where something exciting happened to one where NOTHING exciting happened! Maybe a corollary of sorts to the proverbial curse: may you live in interesting times.
Of course I am only half serious, as I can still appreciate some fun, and exciting things can be fun!
P.S. This post is NOT trolling for birthday wishes. I assume we all wish each other happy birthdays as they come.
When I say, “Good morning,” or “Good day,” to someone, it’s not a weather report, forecast, or any other sort of prediction. It’s expressing my wish and hope for what’s occurring or to come. “Good morning” is short for, “I hope you have (or are having) a good morning.” It’s no different than saying, “Happy birthday,” will ensure that someone is having or will have a happy birthday.
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“ Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one’s own mind without another’s guidance.” — Immanuel Kant
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"I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965
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Some here may not be aware that the root of "good" is "godly" and that wishing someone "a good day" is essentially the same as praying that they be blessed by God. (And not, what "bless his/her heart" means in the Southeastern US, although if you wish to apply that inference in your own head, I cannot prevent it.
I hope that everybody here has a good day!
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