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Great time to remind people that this is meant to be a curse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti...

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I think that's how GP meant it
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Yeah but readers may not know it that way

https://xkcd.com/1053/

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Hahah! I'm one of today's lucky 10,000! :)

Down the rabbit-hole with me now to discover who said it first... LOL!

(Edit: Proving to be a fruitless quest thus far. Nobody seems to know.)

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This is one of the most wholesome and awesome things I've seen in a while. Thanks for sharing!
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Glad I clicked that Wikipedia link! Chinese curse... I'd always been told it was an old Bedouin curse. Learn somethin' new every day (still to this day, and every new day until I become physically incapable of learning).
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For years I had heard it was an Arab curse, which is partly why I’m sharing.
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And I got it as a Roman curse (or from Roman times). That is common with old sayings.
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