LadyFish
Admiral
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- Mar 18, 2003
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Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they<br />haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know<br />it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine.<br /><br />I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, "How about going<br />to lunch in a half hour? " She would gasp and stammer, "I can't. I have<br />clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday. I<br />had a late breakfast. It looks like rain." And my personal favorite:<br />"It's Monday." She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch<br />together.<br /><br />Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule our<br />headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves<br />when all the conditions are perfect! We'll go back and visit the<br />grandparents when we get Stevie toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we<br />replace the living-room carpet. We'll go on a second honeymoon when we<br />get two more kids out of college.<br /><br />Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter,<br />and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer.<br /><br />One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a<br />litany of "I'm going to," "I plan on," and "Someday, when things are<br />settled down a bit."<br /><br />When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure<br />and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her<br />enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes,<br />and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Roller blades and<br />skip an elevator for a bungee cord.<br /><br />My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's<br />just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula<br />and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the car<br />and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way<br />home, I would have died happy.<br /><br />Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to......not<br />something on your SHOULD DO list.<br /><br />If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could<br />make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you<br />waiting?<br /><br />Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I sent this<br />to you.<br /><br />Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to<br />the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic<br />flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night?<br /><br />Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask, "How are you?" Do<br />you hear the reply? When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with<br />the next hundred chores running through your head? Ever told your<br />child, "We'll do it tomorrow." And in your haste, not see his sorrow?<br />Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say "Hi"?<br />When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened<br />gift.... Thrown away...<br /><br />Life is not a race. Take it slower.<br /><br />Hear the music before the song is over. 
