I would like to share this with you

[Terrie2008]

Some one sent this to me and i would like to share 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 t he 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.

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 sur vived 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.

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special. Live for today, for tomorrow is promised to no-one.


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

[amas]

Thanks for posting this.  It is so sad but also something good to think keep in mind.
  
It reminded me of something from a while back.  Eleven or so years ago, my brother-in-law and his wife came to visit us from another state.  They went to go get a drink of water and asked me where my everyday glasses were.  I said, "Right there" (right there in front of them).  They too were crystal glasses and my in-laws were shocked I was using them for everyday glasses.  Move forward to recent years, now with three kids and symptoms creeping up, etc. - you can lose this spirit. Now with my diagnosis, it made me wake up to try harder to be the person I truly am so that my kids know who I am.

It's not easy, and definately more so these days.  I know its a hard attitude to keep when we are in pain but that's why it's nice to be reminded.  I'm sure I'll need to be reminded over and over again but that's OK. Thank you.

[RAY911]

Terrie,

Thank-you for sharing this.  It is so very true.  This is definitely something I needed to hear today.

Thank you

And
((((((((((HUGE HUGS))))))))))))))

Ray

[Terrie2008]

oh sorry may be i should not have put this up

[Wobbly]

Too sad for me....

but true

andi