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 us 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?
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day
is doomsday. ~Ralph
Waldo Emerson~ |
Tim
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