Re: Read This Slowly- Let It Sink In/ from Dan

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In a message dated 5/8/02 5:43:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

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<< 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 too rigid 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.

> > > >>

> > > >>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 to you?

> > > >>

> > > >>How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in

> > > >>silence while you watched Jeopardy! on television?

> > > >>

> > > >>I cannot count the times I called my sister and said,

> > > >> " How about going to lunch in a half hour? " She would

> > > >>gasp 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 Americans cram so much into their lives, we

> > > >>tend to 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 we get

> > > >>Stevie toilet-trained.

> > > >>

> > > >>We'll entertain-when we replace the living-room

> > > >>carpet.

> > > >>

> > > >>We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more

> > > >>kids out of college.

> > > >>

> > > >>Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The

> > > >>days get shorter, and the list of promises to

> > > >>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 on 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 have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love

> > > >>ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it

> > > >>directly to my hips with a spatula and eliminate the

> > > >>digestive process.

> > > >>

> > > >>The other day, I stopped the car and bought a

> > > >>triple-decker. If my car had

> > > >>hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died

> > > >>happy.

> > > >>

> > > >> Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT

> > > >> to......not something 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? And why are you

> > > >>waiting?

> > > >>

> > > >>Make sure you read this to the end; you will

> > > >>understand why I sent this to you.

> > > >>

> > > >>Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round

> > > >>Or listened to the rain lapping on the ground?

> > > >>

> > > >>Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight Or gazed at

> > > >>the sun into the fading night?

> > > >>

> > > >>You better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is

> > > >>short. The music won't last.

> > > >>

> > > >>Do you run through each 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? Just call

> > > >> to say " Hi " ?

> > > >>

> > > >> You'd better slow down. Don't dance so fast. Time is

> > > >> short. The music won't last. When you run so fast to

> > > >> get somewhere, you miss half the fun of getting there.

> > > >>

> > > >>

> > > >>When you worry and hurry through your day, It is like

> > > >>an unopened gift....Thrown away... Life is not a race.

> > > >>Take it slower.

> > > >>

> > > >>Hear the music before the song is over.

> > > >>

> > > >>It's National Friendship Week. Show your friends how

> > > >>much you care.

> > > >>

> > > >>Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND. If it

> > > >>comes back to you, then

> > > >>you'll know you have a circle of friends.

> > > >>

> > > >>Thanks for being my friend.

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