Guidelines for living, found in another echo....  :-)


 1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and
 height. Let the doctor worry about them.

 2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

 3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,
 whatever. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop," and the devil's
 name is Depression.

 4. Enjoy the simple things. When the children are young, that is all
 you can afford. When they are in college, that is all you can afford.
 When you are retired, that is all you can afford.

 5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath. Laugh
 so much that you can be tracked anywhere by your distinctive laughter.

 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
 ... don't put out a mailbox on the highway of death and just wait in
 residence for your mail.

 7. Surround yourself with what you love... whether it is 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. Go to the mall, to the next county, to a
 foreign country... but not to guilt country.

 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. May there be peace
 within you. May you trust that you are exactly where you are meant to
 be right now. "I believe that friends are quiet messengers who lift us
 to our feet when our own wings have trouble remembering how to fly."


                                              -- Author Unknown




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