PETER'S COMPLIMENT | 2006-01-12
In reply to "I Am not Your Average Braggart" Peter says,
"You might not be your average braggart but you are the funniest."
Can you imagine how a person in the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation would take that?
Here Ole Bob has described sufffering, fighting, insults, and Peter says I'm funny.
That's because he knows I WANT to be funny. The worse things get, the more you need humor.
I suppose the Greatest Generation is thinking in terms of veterans' benefits. The more sympathy the Peters of the world feel for them the more they'll demand money for them.
And they want everybody to shout about how they SUFFERED.
It never occurs to Peter that I would give a damn about that. He knows me too well.
You know, if Peter could go back in time and spare me some of that suffering, I have a strong suspicion I would have to hold him back. But a time machine is not available, and neither of us think it is.
So Peter routinely tells me the one thing that the Greatest Generation would never have forgiven: You're funny.
Which is exactly what I want to hear.
A sense of humor is a sense of proportion.
One of the lessons I am trying to get across here is a sense of proportion.
Peter has got all that.
Peter can help laugh the whole world into sanity.