>From: "Pearl Fernane" <pearlyshellz@...>
>To: "Joy Morris" <joymomgram@...>
>Subject: Fw: Take hold of every moment
>Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:02:05 -0700
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>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Flo" <floconley@...>
>To: "pearl fernane" <pearlyshellz@...>
>Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2004 2:26 PM
>Subject: FW: Take hold of every moment
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> > From: "sexysadiemaeglutz@..." <sexysadiemaeglutz@...>
> > To: dkarz@..., emd1126@..., floconley@...,
> > liz@..., mikeconley99@...
> > Subject: Fw: Take hold of every moment
> > Date: Tue, Oct 12, 2004, 1:27 PM
> >
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> >
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> > ---------- Forwarded Message ----------
> >
> > > >> > Take Hold of Every Moment
> > > >> >
> > > >> >
> > > >> > A friend of mine opened his wife's
> > > underwear drawer and picked
> > > up a silk paper wrapped package:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > "This, he said isn't any ordinary package."
> > > >> >
> > > >> > He unwrapped the box and stared at both
> > > the silk paper and the
> > > >> box.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > "She got this the first time we went to New
> > > York , 8 or 9 years
> > > >> ago. She has never put it on. Was
> > > saving it for a
> > > special occasion. Well, I guess this is it. He got
> > > near the bed and placed
> > > the gift box next to the other clothing he was
> > > taking to the funeral house,
> > > his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > "Never save something for a special
> > > occasion. Every day in your
> > > life is a special occasion".
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I still think those words changed my life.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Now I read more and clean less.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I sit on the porch without worrying about
> > > anything.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I spend more time with my family, and less
> > > at work.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I understood that life should be a source
> > > of experience to be
> > > >>lived up to, not survived through. I no longer
> > > keep anything. I use
> > > crystal glasses every day.. I'll wear new clothes
> > > to go to the supermarket,
> > > if i feel like it.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I don't save my special perfume for
> > > special occasions, I use it
> > > >> > whenever I want to. The words "Someday..." and
> > > "One Day..." are fading
> > > >>away
> > > >> > from my dictionary. If it's worth seeing,
> > > listening or doing, I want
> > > >>to
> > > >> > see, listen or do it now. I don't know what my
> > > friend's wife would have
> > > >>done
> > > >> > if she knew she wouldn't be there the next
> > > morning, this nobody can
> > > >>tell.
> > > >>I
> > > >> > think she might have called her relatives and
> > > closest friends.
> > > >> > She might call old friends to make peace
> > > over past quarrels. I'd
> > > >>like
> > > >>to
> > > >> > think she would go out for Chinese, her
> > > favorite food. It's these small
> > > >> > things that I would regret not doing, if I knew
> > > my time had come
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I would regret it, because I would no
> > > longer see the friends I
> > > >>would
> > > >> > meet, letters... that I wanted to write
> > > >> >
> > > >> > "One of these days".
> > > >> >
> > > >> > I would regret and feel sad, because I
> > > didn't say to my brother
> > > >>and
> > > >> > sister, son and daughter, not times enough at
> > > least, how much
> > > >> > I love them.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep
> > > anything that could bring
> > > >> > laughter and joy into our lives...
> > > >> > And, on each morning, I say to myself that
> > > this could be a special
> > > >>day.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Each day, each hour, each minute, is
> > > special. If you got this, it's
> > > >> > because someone cares for you and because,
> > > probably, there's someone
> > > >>you
> > > >> > care about.
> > > >> > If you're too busy to send this out to
> > > other people and you say to
> > > >> > yourself that you will send it "One of these
> > > days", remember that "One
> > > >>day"
> > > >> > is far away... or might never come...
> > >
> >

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