Live Each Day As Though It Was Your Last

*Franemtnurse* · Nov 20, 2004 06:07 PM

A 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 stared at both the silk 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 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 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 don't keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day.. I'll wear new clothes to the supermarket if I feel like it. I don't save special perfume for special occasions. I use it whenever I want to. (I wish I had worn it every day I had it. I'm unable to wear it now. The fragrance cuts my breathing too much.) The words, "Someday" and "One Day" are fading away from my dictionary. If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, and if I can afford to, have a way to get to where it is, 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 sisters, son and daughters, not times enough ar 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 each morning, I say to myself, "This could be a special day."

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special. If you have read this message, 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...

*Monica RN,BSN* · Nov 20, 2004, 06:17 PM

Thanks Fran ... we all need a reminder how precious things are to us, and so many things are taken too lightly.

*Tweety* · Nov 21, 2004, 01:22 AM

I've read this before, but always good to hear that every day is a special occasion.

*Franemtnurse* · Nov 21, 2004, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by Monica RN,BSN

Thanks Fran ... we all need a reminder how precious things are to us, and so many things are taken too lightly.

Exciting wedding you have planned there, girl.

*Franemtnurse* · Nov 21, 2004, 10:35 AM

Originally Posted by 3rdShiftGuy

I've read this before, but always good to hear that every day is a special occasion.

Yes it is, Tweety. Because we humans too often take too many things for granted until we lose them. Thank you for your response. Life is precious.

Live Each Day As Though It Was Your Last

Live Each Day As Though It Was Your Last

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