Something to make you think....

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.

Yes, I am guilty......

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....and eat more dessert!

How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched 'Jeopardy' on television?

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 so-and-so when we get (name your child here) potty-trained.

We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet.

We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get the kids out of college.

I'll further my education, later.

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.'

Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to......not something on your SHOULD DO list.

If you knew you were going to die soon, and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? Why are you waiting?

Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly'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.

Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here we might as well dance!

You know I dance...... do 'The Sophie!!'

Hope it made you think. (And not about my awful dancing!!)