TAKE HOLD OF EVERY MOMENT
One of my friend 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 starred 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 ocasion.
Well, I guess this is it. He
got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothings he was
taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and
said:
"Never save something for a special ocasion. Every day in your
life is a special ocasion".
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 experiences to be lived up, 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 ocasions, 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 quorels. I'd like to think she would go out for
chinese, her favourite 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... letters that i wanted to write "One of this days".
I would
regret and feel sad, because i didn't say to my brothers and sons, 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 this days", remember that "One day"
is far away... or might never come...
This TANTRA came from India. No
matter if you're supersticious or not, spend some time reading it.
It
holds useful messages for the soul.
