This is posted on my grandmothers of internationally adopted children
Yahoo group. Elva shares many words of wisdom. I had to share this with
all of you. It hit home with me.
Will You Dance With Me? READ THIS VERY SLOWLY.... IT'S PRETTY PROFOUND.
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 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 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 Steve 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 roller blades 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 stomach 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 butter
fly's
erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? 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?' 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.
To those I have sent this to..... I cherish our friendship and
appreciate all you do. 'Life may not be the party we hoped for... but
while we are here we might as well dance!'
Hugs and kisses,
