The World According to Jeff

1. The angriest people have no idea what anyone else is thinking.
-- We've stopped genuinely listening to each other.
2. If you wait for the world to come to you, you'll wait forever.
-- Give the world nothing, you get nothing right back.
3. If you want to understand an ad, trade the font sizes.
-- It's rare for a lie to be hidden.
4. People Are Generally Good.
-- The superego does not like to be ignored.
5. People Are Generally Smart.
-- (The existence of an argument does not mean either side is ignorant.)
6. People Are Generally Self-Attentive.
-- Behavior follows Newton's First Law of Motion.
7. If there are words you cannot say, someone else is your master.
-- Nobody else should decide what you can choose to ignore.
8. Urban Dictionary has over 4,000 entries between FUCJ and FUCL.
-- Forget propriety; curse words are vague.
9. Drinking for intoxication is like stapling your mouth in a smile.
-- It doesn't ever fix anything, and the act itself hurts you.
10. You can't choose what you have, but you can choose what you want.
-- Many people have wonderful lives that they hate.