A friend emailed this to me, and I thought I would share
it with anyone who wants to take the time to read it.
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 the calories'.
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 'Who wants to be a millionaire'
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 we cram so much into our lives, we tend to even
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 roller blades
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!"
