Take Hold of Every Moment

[A l t e r E g o 9]

I thought this was a great message. Please enjoy it.....

 

A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:

 

"This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package."

 

He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.

 

"She got this the first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago.. She has never put it on. 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 clothings he was taking to the funeral house, 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".

 

I still think 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 understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day... I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if i feel like it.

 

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. If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen 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, this nobody can tell. I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.

She might call old friends 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.

 

I would regret it, because I would no longer see the friends I would meet, letters... letters that i wanted to write

 

"One of these days".

 

I would regret and feel sad, because I didn't say to my brothers and sisters and son and daughter and my parents, loved ones and friends, not times enough at least, how much

 

I love them and how they have all blessed my life.

 

Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives.

 

And, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day.

 

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.

[Xeroc 0]

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.

So true.

[Guest Ktrek]

B) B) I think it's funny that you would subtitle this "a message from India" when this letter has been circulating in Christian circles for at least 25 years that I know of!! The message is good though!! Thanks for the reminder!

 

Ktrek

[Captain Jean-Luc Picard 1]

"Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion".

I semi-disagree. I think every day in itself is special, but I also think we should continue to have "special occasions". B)

 

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.

Read more than cleaning? That's a lot of reading! B) I wonder what he sists on the porch doing... hmm... Personally, I think time with family and work should be an equal ballance.

 

I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through.

Live is a grand experrience, but it's also something you survive.

 

If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now.

Agreed, provided you can afford to do so.

 

I agreed on the other stuff.

[Lollypop 0]

Just commonsense.

[bevfanK 0]

Cool