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AcousticGod
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From: Pleasanton, CA, USA
Registered: May 2005

posted July 15, 2005 03:09 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message
Received in my email today:

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 C hinese, 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... that I wanted to write

"One of these days".

I would regret and feel sad, because I didn't say to my brother and sisters, son and daughters, not times enough at least, how much

I love them.

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.


If you got this, it's because someone cares for you and because, probably, there's someone you care about.

If you're too busy to send this out to other people and you say to yourself that you will send it "One of these days", remember that "One day" is far away... or might never come...

No matter if you're superstitious or not, spend some time reading it.
It holds useful messages for the soul.

Don't keep this message.

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angel_of_hope
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Posts: 1394
From: Palmer, AK
Registered: Jul 2004

posted July 15, 2005 03:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for angel_of_hope     Edit/Delete Message
Very nice, i passed it on!

Thanks I needed a read such as that this morning!!

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angel_of_hope
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From: Palmer, AK
Registered: Jul 2004

posted July 15, 2005 03:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for angel_of_hope     Edit/Delete Message
oops! my first double post!!

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geminstone
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Posts: 1007
From: Golden, CO
Registered: Nov 2004

posted July 15, 2005 03:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for geminstone     Edit/Delete Message
... Amen!!!...

~ geminstone

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lovely*
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From: CA
Registered: Jul 2003

posted July 15, 2005 03:50 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for lovely*     Edit/Delete Message
nice.

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sue g
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From: former land of the leprechaun
Registered: Sep 2004

posted July 19, 2005 03:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for sue g     Edit/Delete Message
Lovely AG and so so true xx

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