Please do read this ... do
not be too busy Earning a
Living and in the process Forget to Live. Here is a hair-raising
story, which shows the importance of Time Management and understanding what
Life and Priorities are all about.
Trust you will enjoy the read and start Living each day.. each moment...!!!
A friend of mine opened his wife's saree 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 Chinese,
her favourite 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... letters that i
wanted to write "One of these days".
I would regret and feel sad, because I didn't say to my brothers and sons, 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...
Live everyday .. every moment as if it is
your last day... last moment....!! !!
