The Ingredients:

3 Tbs butter

2 minced garlic cloves

3Tbs lemon juice

Instructions:

Steam brocolli until tender but firm, about 7 minutes.  Melt butter in a large skillet add the garlic and saute for 1 minute.  Add cooked broccoli, lemon juice and slat and pepper to taste.  Cook briefly to combine.

(If in case you feel I directed this specifically towards you, rest assured I’m sending a link to this post to everyone I know.  If I have your email address, you’re getting one…. believe me.)

I am responsible for my own happiness.  Like it or not, you are responsible for your own happiness as well.  Do not look to me to do or say something that will make you happy, because it is not my job to provide happiness to anyone but myself.  Frankly, it is not within my power to do so anyways.   

I don’t mean that coldly, or to suggest I am anything other than the fun-loving, compassionate, sensitive guy I’ve always been, but with roughly 20 years left on this planet, making sure you are happy is not my priority.

My personal manifesto holds that I will never consciously try to hurt you or cause you pain or sadness, but it is bound to happen.  That is why I encourage all of you to look inside yourselves and find your own path to happiness.  Where your road parallels mine, let’s travel together.  Where they diverge, let’s go our seperate ways towards happiness with a warm handshake or embrace and no hard feelings.

Should your happiness involve trying to force yourself into my life in a negative fashion, well, I feel very sorry for you.  What a sad existence you must have to waste your beautiful life hurting others.  Personally, I believe that you will be re-paid in spades for such things, but that’s just my belief.  What you give to the universe is what the universe will return to you.  Like attracts like.

So if my search for personal satisfaction, emotional growth and happiness has offended or hurt you, I’m sorry.  I hope you can find something good in your own life to fill that pained spot with pleasant thoughts and move on.  Don’t count on me to rectify it for you.  Your happiness is your life’s work.  As for me, it’s off to work myself.

Wishing you all, all the best in love, luck, and happiness…