That was my favourite line in this really good post. Up till now I’ve been telling myself that I’m just too lazy to be offended.

Stephen – That was a great article and is part of what convinced me to write this one (in addition to the little incident on the bus, of course).

Ægil – Life can certainly be fragile and it sounds like you’ve made some great strides in overcoming your susceptibility to it. Thank you for your compliment about my design! I have a technical background and am proud to say that I designed it myself. I like to keep things simple, including my websites!

Grampa Ken – Yes, people who engage in offensive behavior are likely to do so as a result of excessive stress. I’m pretty sure that we’ve all been on this side of the fence, and in line with those excellent quotes, I’d much rather weather an abrasive attack than be unhappy enough to carry one out. However, the importance of overcoming unpleasant situations still applies to both parties.

“It’s hard to have one’s watch stolen, but one reflects that the thief of the watch became a thief from causes of heredity and environment which are as interesting as they are scientifically comprehensible; and one buys another watch, if not with joy, at any rate with a philosophy that makes bitterness impossible.” – Arnold Bennett

“Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.” – Marcus Antonius

I realized that our perspective is very flexible, it is like play-dough, it can be anything you want, but not unnecessary things like being offended. Instead we better focus on the rational.

How about life is too *fragile* to be offended, I believe there is a link to being too offended and committing suicide. If you’ve not done already, please research. It gives me jitters when I hear someone committing suicide or my occassional suicidal thoughts. I believe I am already immune to those thoughts.

Human life is indeed very fragile. Not only we need to be careful about our body (health), but also with with our emotional health, a subset of full body health.

ps. By the way, I’m currently spicing up the layout of the diet solution program with Isabel’s permission. (I do layout design as one of my free time activities), so it is at the bottom of my priority list.

So far I like the layout of naturalbias.com, the green background especially, and its simplicity, compared to naturalnews.com (very distracting).

But of course things can always be improved, and I will tell you in the future.

My philisophy:
Good layout design is about being simple, straight to the point, minimal, being artistic when appropriate (it should enhance the understanding of the point), and being organized.
So I believe no one should undervalue the importance of layout design for complicated things, it’s simpler than you think.
(Disclaimer: forgive my ego, I believe I do not have much experience yet, but I’m passionate)

I believe through the use of graphic design, big entities have been very successful.