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jwhop
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From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009

posted May 13, 2005 10:31 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Date: 5/13/2005 10:16:17 AM Eastern
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Subject: Secret to Living

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us
to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around
when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.

She said, "Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?" I laughed and enthusiastically responded, "Of course you may!" and she
gave me a giant squeeze. "Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?" I asked. She jokingly replied, "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, and
have a couple of kids..."

"No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. "I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me. After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.

We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor.

Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, "I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know."

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began,

"We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.

There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success.

You have to laugh and find humor every day.

You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it!

There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't
do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old.

If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change.

Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets."

She concluded her speech by courageously singing "The Rose."

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our
daily lives.

At the year's end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago.

One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the
wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you
can possibly be.

When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to
your friends and family, they'll really enjoy it!

These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.

We make a Living by what we get, We make a Life by what we give.

God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God brings you to it,
He will bring you through it.

"Good friends are like stars.........You don't always see them, but you
know they are always there."

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Solane Star
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From: Canada
Registered: Aug 2010

posted May 13, 2005 10:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Solane Star     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thats very beautiful jwhop!!!

Thanks for sharing that.

Solane Star

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Philbird
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posted May 13, 2005 10:58 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
What did she study?

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26taurus
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posted May 13, 2005 10:48 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"You have to laugh and find humor every day."

"Good friends are like stars.........You don't always see them, but you
know they are always there."

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Sheaa Olein
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posted January 13, 2006 08:51 AM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
*Bumped*

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LibraSparkle
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posted January 13, 2006 07:49 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That's awesome, Jwhop! Thanks for sharing.

You get some great forwards. I'm jealous... all I get is religous stuff & dirty jokes.
(All from my grandma, no less! )

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silvermoon
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posted January 13, 2006 07:53 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
awwww, I love it !
silvermoon

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CancerianMoon
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posted January 14, 2006 04:03 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Beautiful!!

"You have to laugh and find humour everyday"

That my motto!!

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juniperb
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From: Blue Star Kachina
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posted February 09, 2011 09:05 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

- George Eliot

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cathy
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posted February 11, 2011 03:12 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for cathy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
jwhop, thanks for sharing this with us.

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Kal_El
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From: Rainy City
Registered: Nov 2009

posted February 11, 2011 04:04 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Kal_El     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That was truly beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

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Randall
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From: The Goober Galaxy
Registered: Apr 2009

posted February 12, 2011 10:07 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

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"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark

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