I think inheriting "bad" genes of one kind or another is the name of the human game. You may think you see lots of people out there for whom everything's fine. WRONG. They're just not telling. Whether it's physical disease tendencies or mental disease tendencies or whatever, it's just all over out there. And I'll tell you, I really don't hold it against those folk who lucked out and do fine. It's not as if they're being snarky about it and deriding the rest of us as losers. Most of those people who put others down for "losership" are sufferers themselves. The REALLY lucky ones keep their mouths shut, kiss their children and their spouses and just don't want to think about how lucky they've been. Makes 'em feel anxious.

My mother's side of the family (which is MOST of my family) I have sixteen cousins. Six of whom (that's a LOT) have been TOTALLY overwhelmed by life, never held a job, had to be supported by their parents (none of whom are rich), and died off as addicts of one kind or another. Way I figure it, there's a gene for what they used to call "neuroticism." (See HANS EYSENCK) That really means they're more subject to anxiety and other stuff like that. And by Jove we've GOT it! Plenty of brains, but that doesn't count if you're too far out of it mentally. And plenty of heart and vascular stuff. Death in the early fifties and all of that.

Lookit, it's what they call "the human condition." In other words, an inheritance of crud. If you let it get you down, you're through. Inheriting that kind of stuff is like inheriting a nose and two ears. IT'S NORMAL. Enjoy what you can in the time you have! ANYTHING AT ALL! The HELL with what all of THEM may say! Have as good a time as you can! As they said in the old song, LIVE, LOVE, LAUGH AND BE HAPPY!!!