[Ravensfort] Something to think about
L T
ldeerslayer at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 21 21:15:22 PDT 2005
Thanks for the Post Lady Juliana!
Sometimes we all need to be reminded of what really matters.
My condolences to you and your mother and your family.
Lorraine
--- TXLADYJULIANA <TXLADYJULIANA at mail.ev1.net> wrote:
> I know that we do not normally post stuff like this to the list, however my Dad died on June 13,
> 2005 and the wisdom of is so true. He died very suddenly even though his health has not been
> good for some years.
>
> Dianna
>
>
> READ THIS VERY SLOWLY.... IT'S PRETTY PROFOUND.
>
> 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?
>
>
> MS>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 Steve 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.
>
>
> "Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here we might as well dance!"
>
>
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