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Take Hold of Every Moment

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Geneva, sans serif]Take Hold Of Every Moment[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Geneva, sans serif][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]paper wrapped package: "This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package." He [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]"She got this the first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago. She has [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]never put it on. Was saving it for a special occasion. Well, I guess this is it".[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothings he was [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said: [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]"Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]special occasion".[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]I still think those words changed my life. Now I read more and clean less. I sit on [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]the porch without worrying about anything. I spend more time with my [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]family, and less at work.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]survived through. I no longer keep [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]anything. I use crystal glasses [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]everyday. I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if I feel like it. I don't [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]The words "Someday..."and "One Day..." are fading away from my dictionary. If [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't be [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]there the next morning, this nobody can tell. I think she might have called her [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]relatives and closest friends. She might call old friends to make peace over past [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]quarrels. I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]come. I would regret it, because I would no longer see the friends I would meet, [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]letters... letters that I wanted to write "One of this days". I would regret and [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]feel sad, because I didn't say to my brothers and sons, not times enough at [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]least, how much I love them.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep anything that could bring laughter and [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]joy into our lives. And, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]special day.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]Each day, each hour, each minute, is special. If you got this, it's because [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]someone cares for you and because, probably, there's someone you care [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]about. If you're too busy to send this out to other people and you say to yourself [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]that you will send it "One of these days", remember that "One day" is far [/FONT]
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]away...or might never come...[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Geneva, sans serif]Author Unknown[/FONT]

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