Living Today with No Regrets ~ A Very Good Philosophy!

jangel · 07-08-2008, 11:25 AM

Living Today With No Regrets

Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are toorigid to depart from their routine.

I got to thinking one day about all those women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to 'cut back the calories'. From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.

How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word 'refrigeration' mean nothing?

How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' on television?

I cannot count the times I called my sister and said, 'How about going to lunch in a half hour?' She would gas up and stammer, 'I can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain.' And my personal favorite: 'It's Monday.' She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.

Because we cram so much into our lives, we tend to even schedule our headaches. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect:

-We'll go back and visit the grandparents when the baby is toilet-trained.
-We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet.
-We'll go on a second honeymoon when the kids are out of school.

Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises we make ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of 'I'm going to,' 'I plan on,' and 'Someday, when things are settled down a bit.'

When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind for new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of rollerblades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.

My lips had not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the car and bought a cone. If I had perished on the way home, I would have died happy.

Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round?
Or listened to rain splashing all around?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight,
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
Do you run through every day on the fly?
When you ask 'How are you?' Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done, do you lie in your bed,
With the next hundred chores running through your head?
Ever told your child, 'We'll do it tomorrow.'
And in your haste, not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch; let a good friendship die?
Ever just call someone just to say 'Hi?

When we worry and hurry throughout all our days,
It is like an unopened gift; tossed lightly away.
Life is not a race; we must take it slower,
And hear its sweet music before the song’s over..

Now, go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to; not only things on your SHOULD DO list.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say?

Why are you waiting?

'Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance!'

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