Enjoy the “Now” of Life

Below is a true story that was written by a friend of mine that I worked with and shows how sometimes even the mundane can “really” be enjoyable if we only look for it in each and every moment that life brings our way.

We need only make the best of things: what we have it and when we have it, because come tomorrow…, we may never know if we will get that 2nd opportunity to appreciate all that is around us and what it has to offer. Go forth people and enjoy the “Now” of life!

Even Crows Have Fun

The first would go down the ‘slide’, walk back up and wait its turn. This went on for about five minutes, until one looked down with a sideways glare. They’d seen me watching. With one caw they were gone.

I woke up early one morning to a scratching sound. The sound went away so I drifted back to sleep.
A few minutes later I woke to the same sound. This time it persisted. I decided I should get up and find out where it was coming from.
My house isn’t very big. Just a modular home on a nicely treed lot in Kitimat, British Columbia. I had seen many animals walk, trot, climb, gallop or waddle across the yard, but I’d never seen what I witnessed that bright spring morning in 2003.
In the kitchen, I heard the noise above me. I looked up to the ceiling, to see a crow step on the upper edge of the high-impact plastic skylight. It did a little sidestepping and then slid down the plastic skylight. To my amazement, there were two other crows doing the same thing.

Author: Daniel Carter

(Great Thoughts of the Day Apr 12 /07)

” Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.”
— Og Mandino

” When you see the value of continued growth, the circumstances around you become stepping stones.”
— Clyde M. Narrimore

(Great thoughts of the Day Apr 1/07)

” A leader’s challenge is to help individuals reach beyond what they think they can do in order to attain that which they thought was impossible.”
— Copyright © 2007 Tim Reeter

” He who does not heed the call of his own passions will inevitably end up somewhere he did not intend to go.”
— David Sicz — Submitted by Joe Smith — Alabama
This is a great quote! I really feel that it puts into words why we should do what we love.

” We were born with two things, existence and opportunity, out of which we can make a successful life! Because life is not what we find, it’s what we create.”
— Author Unknown — Submitted by Riz Cayetano — Philippines

(Great thoughts of the Day Mar 31/07)

” Friends are flowers in the garden of life. Believe in yourself and go for your dream.”
— Author Unknown — Submitted by Romarani Malakar — Malaysia
No one can live alone in this world for ‘no man is an island’.

” One man can be a crucial ingredient of a team, but one man cannot make a team.”
— Author Unknown — Submitted by Aditi Parashar — India

” When money becomes your number one priority, reevaluate your priorities.”
— Copyright © 2007 Meyer Leibovitch

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Great thoughts of the Day

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room.

One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help
drain the fluid from his lungs.
His bed was next to the room ‘ s only window.

The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

The men talked for hours on end.
They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their
involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation.

Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he
would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could
see outside the window.

The man in the other bed began to live for those one hour periods where his
world would be broadened and enlivened by all the activity and color of the
world outside.

The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake.
Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats.
Young lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every color and a fine view
of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.

As the man by the window described all this in exquisite details, the man on
the other side of the room would close his eyes and imagine this picturesque
scene.

One warm afternoon, the man by the window described a parade passing by.

Although the other man could not hear the band – he could see it in his mind
‘ s eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words.

Days, weeks and months passed.

One morning, the day nurse arrived to bring water for their baths only to
find the lifeless body of the man by the window, who had died peacefully in
his sleep.
She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to take the body away.

As soon as it seemed appropriate, the other man asked if he could be moved
next to the window. The nurse was happy to make the switch, and after making
sure he was comfortable, she left him alone.

Slowly, painfully, he propped himself up on one elbow to take his first look
at the real world outside.
He strained to slowly turn to look out the window besides the bed.

It faced a blank wall.

The man asked the nurse what could have compelled his deceased roommate who
had described such wonderful things outside this window.

The nurse responded that the man was blind and could not even see the wall.

She said, “Perhaps he just wanted to encourage you.”

Epilogue:

There is tremendous happiness in making others happy, despite our own
situations.

Shared grief is half the sorrow, but happiness when shared, is doubled.

If you want to feel rich, just count all the things you have that money
can’t buy.

“Today is a gift, that is why it is called The Present.”
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- Thanks Brenda