well, I'm laughing. It *is* a choice. To laugh/smile or to find offence and imagine threat is at the door.
It turns out that enlightenment is really only opening the eyes to lightening (up) that is already in existence, and has been patiently awaiting one. (all of us 'ones'.) Now and forever. What a miracle! It's so simple, it's funny.
PS. I thought I was reading some Aramaic at first.