This is wonderful and thought that you would like
it, too.:-) God bless you all!:-)
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A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man is
fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with
his hair fashionably coifed and perfectly shaved,
even though he is legally blind. He moved to a
nursing home today. His wife of 70 years recently
passed away making the move necessary. After many
hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the
nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room
was ready.
As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, an
attendant provided a visual description of his tiny
room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung
on his window.
"I love it," he stated with the enthusiasm of an
eight-year-old having just been presented with a new
puppy.
"Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait."
"That doesn't have anything to do with it," he
replied.
"Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time.
Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how
the furniture is arranged ... it's how I arrange my
mind. I already decided to love it. It's a decision
I make every morning when I wake up. I have a
choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the
difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no
longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for
the ones that do."
He continued. "Each day is a gift, and as long as my
eyes open, I'll focus on the new day and all the
happy memories I've stored away; just for this time
in my life. Old age is like a bank account. You
withdraw from what you've put in."
"So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of
happiness in the bank account of memories! Thank you
for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still
depositing."
Remember the five simple rules to be truly happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.
sigroid75 posted on Sep 21, 2006
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Comments
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monozuki said on Sep 22, 2006....
Hi Siggy!!
Thanks for the sharing and I like the rules.
I keep it mind (smiling) ^ ^
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Susmaryosep said on Sep 22, 2006....
Thanks. I also got this in the email, but as I knew you would post it, I didn't... Biro lang po!
Life should not be like MY bank account; it's overdrawn after the first day of the month...... hihihihihihhi
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sigroid75 said on Sep 23, 2006....
hi monozuki! glad you like it!:-)
hi daddy sus! kaw talaga...mabiro!!! hahahaha
i hope many can read this. i didn't get too many
reads on this one...it's these kinds of entries that
i hope to get lots of readers, but dont...oh well,
in life we don't always get what we want.:-)
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Susmaryosep said on Sep 23, 2006....
YOu don' t get many reads on this, because nobody likes to be reminded of their bank accounts, like mine... grabe talaga! hahahahahahahah
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sigroid75 said on Sep 23, 2006....
hahahaha kaw talaga dad...ano kaya kung include
mo ako sa mga anak mo? di ba u give them allowances
pa and buy them cars??? hahahaha
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Susmaryosep said on Sep 23, 2006....
Puede! I can buy you a motorised tricycle? :-)
The truth is my anak repays me monthly. We have taught them never to forget their parents, and how much effort and love we took to raise them up and provide them with a tertiary education and other needs. Likewise my parents bequeathed to us, a sense of gratitude and filial piety... That's a good point of Chines culture... The bad points are, using the world as your spittoon, and wearing pajamas out to the city at nights! hahahahahah
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sigroid75 said on Sep 24, 2006....
hahahahaha crazy daddy sus!!!:-)
nah, it's too noisy...i hate tricycles coz i live
in a quite suburban neighborhood and theeir
engines are soooooooo noisy!!! i get disturbed
while blogging.:-)
treat mo na lang ako pag andiyan na ako...
sa Langkawi...:-)
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Susmaryosep said on Sep 25, 2006....
If I treat you to Langkawi, Mr_right will think we are eloping and on our honeymoon... Selos syia!
BTW, does your Chinese boyfriend wear pajamas out at night? hahahahahahahah
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sigroid75 said on Sep 25, 2006....
hahaha punta ako diyan, honeymoon ko, so wala
nang selos-selos...heheheeh
i dunno what my boyfriend wears at night. we were
never together at bedtime.
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Susmaryosep said on Sep 25, 2006....
No, what I mean is when he goes to the movies with you at night, does he wear his pajamas? hahahahahah
Sorry, but I am lost as to your reply in tagalog:-0. kawawa ko!
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sigroid75 said on Sep 25, 2006....
there will be no more selos when i go there,
because that would be my honeymoon...hehehe
hehehe my boyfriend only wears jeans...hehehehe
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sigroid75 said on Sep 25, 2006....
daddysus: greendischarge started a fight with
me in my "coke or water" blog
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Susmaryosep said on Sep 25, 2006....
Sig,
Ok I will check your blog and mediate....
Tell your bf NOT to wear jeans all the time, even to sleep. The tight fit and the thick cloth will heat up the scrotum, and his sperm will die. Medical research has shown that tight fitting pants make the testicles like "half boiled eggs", and reduce the sperm count so that trying to impregnate the babaes will take a lifetime... hahahahahah.
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sigroid75 said on Sep 26, 2006....
is that true, daddy sus? is that why chinese are
prolific because they were pajamas? hahahaa
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Susmaryosep said on Sep 27, 2006....
Ya, just like rabbits... So much so the Chinese Govt has decreed a one child family. You get punished for having s second one... So the Chinese, in their frenzy to get male children, will drown the baby if the first one turns up to be female.........
the Chinese(in China) like to piss and shit in open toilets... another reason why they wear pajamas all over the place??? hahahahahahahah
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sigroid75 said on Oct 03, 2006....
is that true daddy? they drown the first born females?
so they don't have much females there?
and they're the oldest in terms of population coz there's
notmuch new people being born no?
lol about the pajamas...lol
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Susmaryosep said on Oct 03, 2006....
No they don't drown them so much as to go for abortion... then the Govt has decreed its illegal to determine the sex of a baby before birth... I think there are >55% males to females in China, though if you read about the hundreds of thousands of Chinese girls who come to Malaysia to prey on senior citizens like me, or who 'ply the oldest trade', you woule be surprised there are MORE males than females. NO, the japanese have the oldest in terms of population, as they eat a lot of fish and drink green tea! :-)
If yo visit China, its adviseable to bring along an umbrella, so you can 'cover' yourself in theopen toilets... hahahahah
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