A young friend of mine sent this to me because he thinks of me as a friend. It was friendship week last week, but since USM was down, I'm posting this now to all my other dear friends.
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 routime.
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 look like rain. And my personal favorit- "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 outselves when all the conditions are perfect: We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Stevie toilet-trained. We'l 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 Someday" "I plan on Someday" and "Someday, when things are settled down a bit".
When anyone calls my "Seize the Monent" friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiam 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 elevatior 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 you 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???
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How it changed my life:OMG! This has changed my way of thinking. When I first read this, it took me by surprise. WOW! I can't believe how I take things in my life to much for granted. I said some of those very same things. It's time to change!!! You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or
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