100 Reasons Why You Should Hang In There: A LightHearted, Encouraging Look at What Makes Life Worth Living

by Brian Cleary, Scott Mendenhall

Life is hard. You know what shouldn’t be? Thinking of the many reasons that life can also be filled with joy, love, and moments of beauty that are so resplendent, so breathtaking, so filled with color and life and light, that you want to capture them in a glass jar and poke holes in the top so they can breathe. That's why 100 Reasons Why You Should Hang In There; A LIGHTHEARTED, ENCOURAGING LOOK AT WHAT MAKES LIFE WORTH LIVING is a great gift, even if the gift is to yourself. When things are rough, those life-affirming, dopamine-releasing perks that are part of the Life package can completely elude us. Do we think of Prince flipping his guitar into the crowd after slaying “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”? No. We position ourselves at the end of the conveyor belt of worry, regret, and second guesses, rather than consciously reminding ourselves that the same world that brought us these woes also gives us hills of yellow daffodils, and fresh, out-of-the-dryer sheets, big screen viewings of Annie Hall, and kindergarten graduations, where the kids wear handmade, paper-tasseled mortarboards, and smile toothy grins after nailing their first official year of school. Take a look, and we're pretty sure you'll agree with humorist and poet Brian P. Cleary that there are at least 100 reasons to hang in there. So many reasons, in fact, that he wrote a whole encouragement book listing them!

104 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 24, 2022