I THINK IT'S TIME FOR "SMELBORP"

A LONG TIME AGO, IN A LAND FAR, FAR AWAY THERE WAS AN AMAZING WOMAN NAMED ALEX, WHO HAD AN AMAZING SISTER NAMED CHIARA. NOW CHIARA BEING THE NAME OF LIGHT WAS SO APPROPRIATELY NAMED BECAUSE SHE SPREAD LIGHT, LAUGHTER AND POSITIVE ENERGY EVERYWHERE SHE WENT.

ONE DAY CHIARA SENSED A PROBLEM BREWING AND THIS IS WHAT SHE WROTE:

TAKE MY ADVICE: PROBLEMS DO NOT EXIST!!!!!

IF YOU INSIST THAT PROBLEMS (IN WHATEVER ABSTRACT, VAGUE OR RELATED FORM) DO EXIST...

DON'T FEEL OVERWHELMED BY THEM.

CHANGE YOUR PERSPECTIVE.

INVERT "PROBLEMS." WHAT DO YOU GET?..."SMELBORP." MUCH LESS INTIMIDATING. IF YOU ARE STILL NOT CONVINCED, WE MUST ATTEMPT TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEMS. VERY SIMPLE.

ONCE AGAIN, WE INVERT THE PERSPECTIVE: SMELBORP. THUS WE THEORETICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY FIND OURSELVES AT THE END OF THE PROBLEMS RATHER THAN AT THE BEGINNING OF THEM...SO MUCH MORE APPEALING.

THEN WE LOOK AT FACTORS THAT CONSTITUTE THE PROBLEMS, OR RATHER THE SMELBORP. WE HAVE "SMEL" AND "BORP." WITHIN PROBLEMS YOU ALWAYS FIND THE SOLUTIONS. BEAR WITH ME...

IN THIS CASE WE HAVE SMEL AND BORP.

ALTERNATIVELY SMEL(L) AND B(U)RP.

SMELLING AND BURPING ARE TWO WAYS OF INHALING AND EXHALING.

INHALING AND EXHALING ARE CONSTITUTE THE ACT OF BREATHING.

BY BREATHING YOU ARE, BY DEFINITION, LIVING.

THUS, BY SIMPLY LIVING, YOU ARE NATURALLY AND SUBCONSCIOUSLY ELIMINATING ALL PROBLEMS. HENCE, THE REALITY IS THAT IF YOU ARE ALIVE, THEN PROBLEMS DO NOT EXIST. SO BASICALLY, IF YOU ARE NOT DEAD, YOU ARE PROBLEM-FREE.

IT IS THE NATURAL STATE OF THINGS.

BEING STRESSED, FOR EXAMPLE, SUGGESTS THAT THERE IS A PROBLEM (IN SOME FORM OR ANOTHER). AND THAT, THEREFORE, GOES AGAINST NATURE. BUT IT IS A KNOWN FACT THAT EVENTUALLY NATURE ALWAYS CONQUERS MAN, SO YOU WILL END UP NOT BEING STRESSED AT SOME POINT ANYWAY.

THEREFORE, IT MIGHT AS WELL BE NOW.

WHICH BRINGS ME BACK TO MY FIRST PIECE OF ADVICE: PROBLEMS DO NOT EXIST.

SEE, MY ADVICE WASN'T SO STUPID AFTER ALL. I GUESS I JUST HAD TO SPELL IT OUT FOR YOU.

AND SO WAS THE STORY CHIARA TOLD IN A LAND FAR, FAR AWAY. AND IT IS THE WISDOM AND LIGHT THAT SURROUND HER DEAR SISTER TODAY. MAY HER WORDS BRING TRUTH, COMFORT AND BREATH TO HER DEAR DANDA.............FOR THE CALMING OF STRESS AND THE VANISHING OF PROBLEMS.

LOVE AND HUGS, JANE