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Old 01-14-2009, 02:08 PM   #182
THE eXchanger
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Default Re: The eXchanger's Thread -2008 The Year of The Trinity of New Beginnings

Will You Dance With Me?

READ THIS VERY SLOWLY.... IT'S PRETTY PROFOUND.

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 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 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 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 o
f '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?

Make sure you read this to the end;
you will understand why I
sent this to you.

Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or
listened to the rain lapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butter fly'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.
+ xxx

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