Friday, July 29, 2005

Live Life To The Fullest

This is something that happened with a friend of mine ........

Few years back I met Aditi. Really nice girl, very polite, good sense of humor, bright smile. We were chatting at an event about life, cricket and all the other things. We overheard someone complaining about where they had to park their car, and that's when Aditi told me something that I will never, ever forget. She was dying. She had ALS, which is a disease that has no cure and She was given 6 months to a year to live.

But that wasn't the part that shocked me. After hearing the person complain about their parking spot she looked me in the eye and said "I feel sorry for people who are healthy". I was floored, I didn't know what she meant. I said "Isn't it reverse, we feel bad for someone like you?"she shook her head and looked me even deeper in the eye and said the words I will never forget:"Before having ALS, life was just there. I complained about things that I thought mattered. People cutting me off on the road, my pay, the weather. When I was handed my life and told I had 6 months left, those things didn't matter anymore. Little things didn't bother me, nor did the big things. I stop and smell the roses, I look at peoples smiles and it makes me smile. That's why I feel sorry for people who are healthy. They don't get it.Until they are in a situation like mine, they take life for granted.It took me to find out I was dying to realize I had to startliving." For one of the first times in my life, I was speechless.

Ask yourself, what are you stressing out over that really doesn't matter? Whose smile brightens up your day, but you've never told them that. If this was your last day here, who would you call to tell them you love them?Use your opportunity of life to find out what it's all about.

Thats why I am using this opportunity to tell my Shanya, that I Love her alot.

E N J O Y

Customer : Waiter, is this a lamb chop or pork chop?
Waiter : Can't you tell the difference by taste?
Customer : No, I can't.
Waiter : Then does it really matter?

Customer : Waiter, there's a dead beetle in my soup.
Waiter : Yes Sir, they are not very good swimmers.

Customer : Waiter, there's a fly in my soup.
Waiter : That's all right, Sir, he won't drink much.

Customer : Waiter, there's a fly swimming in my soup.
Waiter : So what do you expect me to do, call a lifeguard?

Customer : Waiter, what's the meaning of this fly inmy tea cup?
Waiter : I wouldn't know, Sir, I'm a waiter, not a fortune teller.

Customer : Waiter, this soup tastes funny.
Waiter : Funny? But why aren't you laughing?