This is a good one, and timely. Please read this all the way to the
end
I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the moment. Just
possibly,
she may be the wisest woman on this planet. 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 gasp 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 hips 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?
Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I posted this to
you.
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?
You better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last.
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?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last.
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
'Cause you never had time to call and say "Hi"?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast
Time is short
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....Thrown away...
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
It is the true story of a little girl who will
soon leave this world, as she has been a victim of a serious and fatal form
of cancer.
she wanted to tell everyone to live his or her life to the fullest, since
she never will.
She'll never make it to her prom, graduate from high school, or get married
and have a family of her own.