Reality

Another wonderful article sent through email by a friend. I have read this similar article many years ago. It somehow slipped my mind but reading it again, somehow reminds me of how much we have taken the life we have for granted. This is for sharing!


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 clothing 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.

spend more time with the ones You Love, 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.

T he words 'Someday.....' and ' One Day...' are fading away from my dictionary.
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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 favourite 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..

Prayer

I am not a Christian, but this is a wonderful prayer to share. Please have it in your heart to send your prayers and well wishers to the people in Japan.


Lord, I just want to say THANK YOU,

Because this morning I woke up and knew where my children were.

Because this morning my home was still standing,

Because this morning I am not crying

Because my spouse, my child, my brother or sister, my parent does not need to be buried or to be pulled out from underneath a pile of concrete,

Because this morning I was able to drink a glass of water,

Because this morning I was able to turn on the light,

Because this morning I was able to take a shower,

Because this morning I was not planning a funeral,

But most of all I thank you this morning because I still have life and a voice to cry out for the people of Japan .

Lord I cry out to you, the One that makes the impossible, possible,

The One that turns darkness into light,

I cry out that You give those mothers strength,

That You give them peace that surpasses all understanding,

That You may open the streets so that help can come,

That You may provide doctors, nurses, food, water, and all that they need in a blink of an eye.


For all those that have lost family members, give them peace, give them hope, give them courage to continue to go on!

Protect the children and shield them with your power.

I pray all this in the name of Jesus!!!

Weekends

I bumped into my colleague at the lift. He look tired and weary and upon query, he said he has relationship problem. He says he dreads weekend during moments like this. I come to conclude that weekends are only for couples. When you are single, you dread weekends. Simply because, you will be all ALONE. That is the reality of it. Weekends seemed to drag longer when you are alone and fly too fast when you get to spend it with the ones you love.

I guess when you are used to spend your time with the someone and suddenly the someone is no longer there, you will feel a sense of emptiness. You do not know what to do with the weekends or holidays that you have. Your work becomes your passion and before you know it, you are a workaholic.

When you get to spend your weekends with the ones you love, your working days become a dread. You look forward to Thursday, Friday and yea! is Friday night and that is the best night towards weekend. Saturday is a bliss, Sunday comes too fast and heck is Monday already! So it goes on and on. Then you start to ramble through the calender for holidays and plan the perfect holidays with your someone.

Well, to the singles, it can be tough sometimes, but with the time that you have, perhaps is time to do the things you always wanted - go to gym, help out in the orphanage homes, have a blast with your Xbox, learn up photoshop, take up physchology course, watch Astro 24 hours, blast your Harmon Kardon speakers.... and the list goes on and on. But yet again, nothing is more fulfilling than do this with the special someone.