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Date Posted: 17:36:35 02/16/05 Wed
In reply to:
Deb
's message, "Life's too Short" on 11:30:01 02/16/05 Wed
thanks, really great...
>This was forwarded to me from a friend via email
>today...I thought I'd share it with all of you today.
>:o)
>
>Too many people put off something that brings them joy
>just because they haven't thought about it, don't have
>it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are
>too rigid to depart from their routine.
>
>I got to thinking one day about all those women on the
>Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful
>night in an effort to cut back. From then on, I've
>tried to be a little more flexible.
>
>How many women out there will eat at home because
>their husband didn't suggest going out to dinner until
>after something had been thawed? Does the word
>"refrigeration" mean nothing to you?
>
>How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in
>silence while you watched 'Jeopardy' on television?
>
>I cannot count the times I called my sister and said,
>"How about going to lunch in a half hour?" She would
>gas up and stammer, "I can't. I have clothes on the
>line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday,
>I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain." And my
>personal favorite: "It's Monday." ..She died a few
>years ago. We never did have lunch together.
>
>Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we
>tend to schedule our headaches.. We live on a sparse
>diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the
>conditions are perfect!
>
>We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get
>Stevie toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace
>the living-room carpet.
>
>We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more
>kids out of college.
>
>Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The
>days get shorter, and the list of promises to
>ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all
>we have to show for our lives is a litany of "I'm
>going to," "I plan on," and "Someday, when things are
>settled down a bit."
>
>When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is
>open to adventure and available for trips She keeps an
>open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is
>contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and
>you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of
>Rollerblades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.
>
>My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years I love
>ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it
>directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate
>the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the
>car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an
>iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.
>
>Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT
>to.....not something on your SHOULD DO list. If you
>were going to die soon and had only one phone call you
>could make, who would you call and what would you say?
>And why are you waiting?
>
>Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round
>or listened to the rain lapping on the ground?
>
>Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight or gazed at
>the sun into the fading night?
>
>Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask
>"How are you?" Do you hear the reply?
>
>When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the
>next hundred chores running through your head?
>
>Ever told your child, "We'll do it tomorrow." And in
>your haste, not see his sorrow?
>
>Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call
>to say "Hi"?
>
>When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like
>an unopened gift....Thrown away... Life is not a race.
>Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.
>
>It's National Friendship Week. Have a great week!
>
>"Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while
>we are here we might as
>well dance!"
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