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Subject: Fw: National Friendship Week!
Something to think
about!
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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> How often have your
kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched 'Jeopardy' on
television?
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> 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.
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> 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!
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> We'll go back and
visit the grandparents when we get Stevie toilet-trained.
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> We'll entertain when
we replace the living-room carpet.
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> We'll go on a second
honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.
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> Life has a way of
accelerating as we get older.
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> 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."
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> 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.
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> 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 stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive
process. The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-decker.
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> If my car had hit an
iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.
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> Now...go on and have
a nice day. Do something you WANT to......not something on your SHOULD DO list.
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> 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?
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> Make sure you read
this to the end; you will understand why I sent this to you.
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> 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?
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> Do you run through
each day on the fly? When you ask "How are you?" Do you hear the reply?
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> 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?
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> Ever lost touch? Let
a good friendship die? Just call to say "Hi"?
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> When you worry and
hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gifts thrown away... Life is not
a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.
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> 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
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