Peanuts by Charles Schulz for December 02, 2020

Oh, no. It’s those last two question which lead adults to start issuing “participation trophies” to make kids feel better.

nice monologue, Charlie Brown

Why do you lie in bed at night asking questions that you can’t answer?

Charlie. I’d love to say that “when you’re an adult, you’ll understand” but I’m an adult myself and still can’t understand the need for children to play highly competitive sports.

Chin up Charlie Brown in a few decades kids will get trophies just for participation.

Yeah…you don’t want to lose nights better spent sleeping…

So, you be easier to control as an adult, what we now call a snowflake. It’s worked.

Maybe this is why his baseball team never wins…

Don’t worry CB , by the time you’re an adult, every child will get a trophy for “participation” !

Wonder what Chuck would think about the recent “everybody gets a trophy” ideology.

And yet CB longs to win at the highly organized game of baseball.

Agreed. Way back in the day, my friends and I would organize baseball games after school, play in the street, and have a great time.

Good old Charlie Brown. Always pondering the ways of life.

Of course, it’s easier to think like that when your team loses most of the time. I’ve coached and played on winning teams and losing ones and the former are always the most enjoyable.

Charlie brown, just right down you ideas, let’s call them thesis, and then in the morning go and nail them to the door of the snow man league office.

CB is a thinker for sure. I love how he questions why winning is important and why he is questioning things :)

You are a wise man, Charlie Brown.

That’s me almost every night of the pandemic.

I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”― Richard Feynman

God, but I hate those middle of the night questions running in my head. I feel so vulnerable at 3am. Sometimes I turn on the radio real low for an hour or so, to drown them out.

Remember that the next time your baseball team plays, Charlie Brown.

That will keep you up all night CB.

And we never outgrow lying in bed at night asking ourselves questions that we can’t answer.

Very true, Charlie Brown, very true.

I can totally relate to “It’s not wise to lie in bed at night asking yourself questions that you can’t answer.” I have an anxiety disorder and even with medication and mindfulness awareness, I still can get so anxious at night.

Good advice for us all…..

Poor Charlie Brown, we love you !

Yeah, I remember my daughter loved softball right until the age that the players began to take it really seriously. Nobody on the field was having fun any more.

I always tended to eschew adult-sponsored activities for those that were almost, but not quite, delinquent.

At least someone gets it.

Wait another 30 years and everyone will be a winner and get trophies!

‘Sometimes I like awake night after night,Coming apart at the seams,Eager to please, ready to fight;Why do I go to extremes?’-Billy Joel

When those kind of questions come in the middle of the night, sometimes it works to tell myself “ I can’t solve this now, I can think about it in the morning”.