"Eleven Hints for Life" Monday
Posted by: bigguyhereagain <bigguyhereagain@...>
1. It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return.
But what is more painful is to love someone and never
find the courage to let that person know how you feel.
2. A sad thing in life is when you meet someone who
means a lot to you, only to find out in the end that it was
never meant to be and you just have to let go.
3. The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a
porch swing with, never say a word, and then walk away
feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
4. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose
it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been
missing until it arrives.
5. It takes only a minute to get a crush on someone, an
hour to like someone, and a day to love someone-but it
takes a lifetime to forget someone.
6. Don't go for looks, they can deceive. Don't go for wealth,
even that fades away. Go for someone who makes you
smile because it takes only a smile to make a dark day
seem bright.
7. Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go,
be what you want to be. Because you have only one life and
one chance to do all the things you want to do.
8. Always put yourself in the other's shoes. If you feel that it
hurts you, it probably hurts the person too.
9. A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck
a life. A timely word may level stress. But a loving word may
heal and bless.
10. The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best
of everything they just make the most of everything that comes
along their way.
11. Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, ends with
a tear. When you were born, you were crying and everyone
around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die,
you're the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.
About ten years ago, a young and very successful executive named Josh
was traveling down a Chicago neighborhood street. He was going a bit
too
fast in his sleek, black, 12-cylinder Jaguar XKE, which was only two
months old.
He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and
slowed
down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed,no child
darted
out, but a brick sailed out and-WHUMP! -- it smashed into the Jag's
shiny door. SCREECH! Brakes slammed, gears ground into reverse, and
tires madly spun the Jaguar back to the spot where the brick had been
thrown.
Josh jumped out of the car, grabbed the kid and pushed him up against a
parked car. He shouted at the kid, "What was that all about? Just what
the heck are you doing?" Building up a head of steam, he went on,
"That's my new Jag! That brick you threw is gonna cost you a lot of
money. Why did you throw it?"
"Please, mister, please...I'm sorry! I didn't know what else to do!"
pleaded the youngster. "I threw the brick because no one else would
stop!"
Tears were dripping down the boy's chin as he pointed around the parked
car. "It's my brother, mister," he said. "He rolled off the curb and
fell out of his wheelchair, and I can't lift him up."
Sobbing, the boy asked the executive, "Would you please help me get him
back into his wheelchair? He's hurt, and he's too heavy for me."
Moved beyond words, the young executive tried desperately to swallow
the
rapidly swelling lump in his throat. Straining, he lifted the young man
back into the wheelchair and took out his handkerchief to wipe the
scrapes and cuts, checking to see that everything was going to be OK.
He
then watched the younger brother pushes him down the sidewalk toward
their home. It was a long walk back to the sleek, black, shining,
12-cylinder Jaguar XKE-a long slow walk.
Josh never did fix the side door of his Jaguar. He kept the dent to
remind him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a
brick at him to get his attention.
Some bricks are softer than others. Feel for the bricks of life coming
at you.
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