The thing to do is …

• once you've bloomed, hold on. 
• change the course.
• keep up your spirits in spite of everybody and everything.
• get rid of the poison while it is still only on the surface.
• just laugh it off.
• begin while the infestation is slight.
• go back to doing what you do best.
• accept this madness of yours as a basic fact.
• keep occupied.
• face the worst with serenity.
• heed them both.
• be forever losing yourself in the enjoyment of embracing life.
• find a house and wait for Santa.
• play this game simply for the pleasure of playing it.
• accept this fact and try to utilize it.
• start before it's too late.
• the thing that can be done.

[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See the remarkable collection, entitled Bullet Lists.]