Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for May 28, 2014

Most of us are just making it up as we go along.

Sometimes we never figure out how to be independent on our own… ;)

When I recognized,things are so complex, that I never will be able to do everything by myself, I started to believe in God and in the help and good will of others, and this works!!

Old German proverb: Ve gedt too zoon oldt, undt too ladte schmardt.

@LX013Sie sind klug, Oma.

“I know I’m fakin’n it I’m not really makin’ it This feeling of fakin’ it I still haven’t shaken it.”

Simon and Garfunkel “Fakin’ It”

Yep, just flyin’ by the seat of my pants here, with a busted compass. Just call me “Wrong Way Bird.”

My mother once told me that children protect their parents by expecting them to know what to do. “They look at you with that confidence—Mummy will fix it!—so somehow you find a way, or pretend to.” She never finished eighth grade. I remember taking crafts or science homework home, and she’d say, “Well, let me see the instructions first…oh, this is easy! We can do this!” It never ocurred to me in those days that she was just saying that to encourage me. Her skills were no better than mine, but she made me believe mine were good enough—and when they weren’t, that the project itself wasn’t all that important.

Watterson was in a very reflective mood when he did these strips.

waterson has been reflective for close to a week now, did his house get burgled? wheres the comic in the strips?

It Takes a Whole Community to Be Able to Be an Adult …

After living on his own for a while, my son once commented, "This grown up “stuff” sucks."

life is an ad-lib

If only there were a book for parents that explained everything in the world……..Click here: Calvin and Hobbes (November 1, 1993)Click here: Peanuts (August 6, 1972)

@orinoco womble: That’s one of my favorite Peanuts strips. A lot of the magic of Peanuts was that Charles Schulz intertwined humor and serious subjects. Bill Watterson did the same, and he said that Charles Schulz had been one of the main cartoonists who had influenced him growing up.

As an adult, Bill Watterson has mostly been a recluse who has not wanted public attention. When Calvin and Hobbes suddenly became so successful, Bill had trouble adjusting to the public attention and figuring out how to deal with it. He also had to deal with the syndicate pushing him to commercialize Calvin and Hobbes. So, today’s strip is interesting, because Bill Watterson pretty much had to write the manual for his own adult life.

A-MEN!

Am I the only one who noticed that they switched sides of the bed????

Now you tell me! I’m now envious of my grand kids! Four are single digits and 3 are double digits!

Which is why teenagers are such a pain. They get mad at parents because they feel cheated out of their protected status and forced to depend on themselves as soon as they figure out that their parents are mere mortals. It’s scary as hell to figure out that your parents are not only not perfect and omnipotent, but that pretty soon you are going to be expected to handle the big scary world all by yourself.

Adults ad lib? Only every day.

Live and Learn.Learn from your mistakes.Deal with it.That’s how I roll.

Did they switch sides of beds? I could have sworn he was on the left side of the bed.

Are you grown up now?

I so agree with his last statement!

Besides, it looks Dutch not German.

Adulthood is no walk in the park.

xxx

Donkey Hotey wrote: “I’ve never understood the logic of believing in God.”@Donkey Hotey: That is a very logical statement, because belief in God is outside the realm of logic. It is in the realm of faith, spirituality, and revelation. Logic can sometimes help to remove some impediments to belief, but it can’t produce belief in God by itself.

One night when I was a single mom, my daughter was in her pj’s on the sofa after dinner. I was still in my work uniform and looking for a paper I had thrown in the unlit fireplace because I actually DID need it for some insurance thing I had to fill out. I hadn’t eaten and was exhausted from the day. My sweet daughter asked’ “Are we going to have a fire in the fireplace mom?” When I responded that, no honey, I’m just looking for a paper that I need for tomorrow, she responded, “It’s GOOD to be 7.” Yes. It is :~)

@LX013No one should question another person’s faith.

How is it a comic strip, originally running from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995; i.e., some 20 years ago, can evoke so much emotion?Huh?

Yesterday He was on the other side of the bed….

@Donkey Hotey: One of the mysteries of religion is why some develop faith whereas others do not, even when a percentage of the others wish that they could believe in God. Calvin’s predecessor, John Calvin, would explain it as predestination. But that just raises more questions. There are some things that we will never fully understand in this life.

Unless you want to become Peter Pan you have to face reality.

@Donkey Hotey: In general, those who are religious have difficulty understanding why others are not. And those who are not religious have difficulty understanding why others are. So there is mystery on both sides.

Not in the gospels. 1 John 4:8

You are right about it not being in the gospels. It is in 1John4:8