When The Going Gets Tough...
This Keeps You Going!
HOW
TO STAY YOUNG (George Carlin)
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height.
Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,
whatever. Never let the brain idle. " An idle mind is the devil's
workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5.. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is
with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets,
keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable,
improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to
a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take,
but by the moments that take our breath away.
Two seeds lay side by side in the fertile spring soil.
The first seed said, "I want to grow! I want to send my roots deep into
the soil beneath me, and thrust my sprouts through the earth's crust
above me. I want to unfurl my tender buds like banners to announce the
arrival of spring. I want to feel the warmth of the sun on my face and
the blessing of the morning dew on my petals!"
And so she grew.
The second seed said, "I am afraid. If I send my roots into the ground
below, I don't know what I will encounter in the dark. If I push my way
through the hard soil above me, I may damage my delicate sprouts. What if
I let my buds open and a snail tries to eat them? And if I were to open
my blossoms, a small child may pull me from the ground. No, it is much
better for me to wait until it is safe."
And so she waited.
A hen scratching around in the early spring ground for food found the
waiting seed and promptly ate it.
Once upon a time
there was a race of frogs. The goal was to reach the top of a high tower.
Many people gathered to see and support them. The race began.
In reality, the people probably didn’t believe that it was
possible that the frogs reached the top of the tower, and all the phrases
that one could hear were of this kind :
"What pain !!!
They’ll never make it!"
The frogs began to resign, except for one who kept on climbing. The people
continued : "... What pain !!! They’ll never make it!..."
And the frogs
admitted defeat, except for the frog who continued to insist. At the end,
all the frogs quit, except the one who, alone and with and enormous
effort, reached the top of the tower. The others wanted to know how did he
do it.
One of them approached him to ask him how he had done it, to finish the
race.
And
discovered that he... was deaf!
Never listen to people who have the bad habit of being negative because
they steal the best aspirations of your heart! He thought that they had
been cheering him all along.
Always remind yourself of the power of the words that we hear or read.
That’s why, you always have to think positive.
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