REMEMBER WHAT'S IMPORTANT
A friend of mine opened his wife's drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package.He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.
"This, he said,"Isn't any ordinary package. She got this the first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on; she was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is it."
He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothing he was taking to the funeral home; his wife had just died.
He turned to me and said, "Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion."
Those words changed my life.
Now I read more and clean less.I sit on the porch without worrying about
anything.I spend more time with my family, and less at work.
I understand that life is an experience to be lived up
to, not survived through.
I no longer keep anything for "Later."
I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever
I want to.
The words 'Someday....' and ' One Day are fading away from my dictionary.
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If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, thn I want to see it, listen to it, or do it......now......
I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she
wouldn't be there the next morning,
but I think she might have called her relatives and her closest friends.
She might have called others to make peace over past quarrels.
I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favorite food.
It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time
had come..
Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.
Live for today, for tomorrow is promised to no-one.
'One of these
days, remember that 'One day' is far away... or might never come...
"FROM AN EMAIL I RECEIVED 03/30/2010"