supermarket

I just got back from a trip to the supermarket (the word is the same in Korean, but they say it shupermarket)on my bike. It rained today, so it's so nice and cool outside and everything feels a little cleaner. The park on the way to the store was alive with lots of people walking around the lake, doing their exercises, and hanging around talking at 10:30pm. I got some kiwi fruit, ice cream, milk, yogurt, pancake mix, cinnamon powder, barbecue sauce (an excellent find) and some new slippers. Yay. I also found a cute little notebook with this on the front:

GO SUCCESS
Me wherever my life is lived,
O to be self-balanced for contingencies,
To confront night, storms, hunger,
ridicule, accidents, rebuffs,
as the trees and animals do.

Wouldn't life be that much better if we were able to confront ridicule as the trees and animals do? Maybe there really is some wisdom in this!?