Beautiful, thank you.

imtrying25 wrote on 18 Nov 2009 13:12:

'Life isn't about how to survive the storm,  But how to dance in the rain. 
I really love it. Thnks  I really needed a lift today.
Hope your day is great
Trying

Imtrying, I see what you mean

and that last one was special

It would have been Kedai to join the forum just for these posts, Imtrying!

Thanks yechida for checking things out. Hope you enjoyed. And Kedusha thanx for the encouraging words. Your pretty good at that.

READ  THIS VERY
SLOWLY... IT'S PRETTY PROFOUND.
Too  many people put
off something that brings them joy just because they
  haven't thought about it, don't have it on
their schedule, didn't know  it was coming or are
too rigid to depart from their routine.

I  got to thinking
one day about all those people on the Titanic who passed
  up dessert at dinner that fateful night in
  an effort to cut back.  From then on, I've
tried to be a little more flexible.

How many  women out
there will eat at home because their husband didn't
suggest  going out to dinner until after something had
been thawed?  Does  the word
'refrigeration' mean nothing to you?

How often have  your
kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched
  'Jeopardy' on television?

I cannot count the times I
called my  sister and said , 'How about going to
lunch in a half hour?' She would
  gas up and stammer, 'I can't.  I have
clothes on the line.  My  hair is dirty.  I
wish I had known yesterday, I had a late  breakfast, It
looks like rain'  And my personal favorite:
  'It's Monday.' She died a few years ago.
We never did have lunch  together.

Because we cram so
much into our lives,  we tend to schedule our
headaches..  We live on a sparse diet of  promises
we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!
 

We'll go back and
visit the grandparents when we get Steve
  toilet-trained.  We'll entertain when we
replace the living-room  carpet.  We'll
  go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids
  out of college.

Life has a way of
accelerating as we get  older.  The days get
shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves  gets
longer.  One morning, we awaken, and all we have to
show for  our lives is a litany of 'I'm going
to,' 'I plan on,' and 'Someday, when
  things are settled down a bit.'

When anyone calls my
'seize the  moment' friend, she is open to
adventure and available for trips.  She keeps an
open mind on new ideas.  Her enthusiasm for life is
  contagious.  You talk with her for five minutes,
and you're ready  to trade your bad feet
  for a pair of Rollerblades and skip an elevator  for
a bungee cord.

My lips have not touched
ice cream in 10  years.  I love ice cream.
It's just that I might as well  apply it directly
to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the
  digestive process.  The other day, I stopped the
car and bought a  triple-decker.  If my car had
hit an iceberg on the way home, I  would have died
happy.

Now...go on and have a
nice day.  Do  something you WANT to...not
something on your SHOULD DO list. If you  were going to
die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who
  would you call and what would you
  say?  ;And why are you  waiting?

Have you ever watched kids
playing on a  merry go round or listened to the rain
lapping on the ground?  Ever  followed a
butterfly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the
  fading night?  Do you run through each day on the
fly?  When  you ask 'How are you?'
Do you hear the reply?

When the day  is
done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred
  chores running  through your head?  Ever told
your child, 'We'll do it tomorrow.'  And in
your haste, not see his sorrow?  Ever lost touch?
Let  a good friendship die?  Just call to say
'Hi'?

When you  worry and
hurry through your day, it is like an unopened
gift....Thrown  away.... Life is not a race. Take it
slower.  Hear the music before  the song is
over. 

'Life
  may not be the party we hoped for...  but while
we are here we  might as well
dance!'

You Tryers are great!

Imtrying; your recent posts around the forum have been amazing.
On target and insightful.
KUTGW!

Thanx Mom. It always feels good knowing that my Mom is shepping nachas from me!!

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an
audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "how
heavy is this glass of water? "

    Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.

    The lecturer replied,  "The  absolute weight
doesn't matter.  It depends on how long you try to
hold it. If I hold it for a minute, that's not a
problem. If I hold it for an hour,  I'll have an ache
in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have
to call an ambulance.  In each case, it's the same
weight, but  the longer I hold it, the heavier it
becomes. "

      He continued, "And that's the way it is with
stress management. If we carry our burdens all the
time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes
increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on. As
with the  glass  of water, you have to put it down for
a while and rest before holding it  again. When we're
refreshed, we can carry on with the burden. "

    "So, before you return home tonight, put the
burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick
it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you're carrying now,
let them down for a moment if you can. Relax; pick
them up later after you've rested. Life is short.
Enjoy it!"

    And then he shared some ways of dealing with the
burdens of life:

      * Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and
some days you're the statue.

    * Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in
case you have to eat them.

      * Always read stuff that will make you look good
if you die in the middle of it.

    * Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be
recalled by their maker.

    * If you can't be kind, at least have the decency
to be vague.

      * If you lend someone $20 and never see that
person again, it was probably worth it.

    * It may be that your sole purpose in life is
simply to serve as a warning to others.

    * Never buy a car you can't push.

    * Never put both feet in your mouth at the same
time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

    * Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get
up and dance.

    * Since it's the early worm that gets eaten by the
bird, sleep late.

    * The second mouse gets the cheese.

    * When everything's coming your way, you're in
the wrong lane.

    * Birthdays are good for you. The more you have,
the longer you live.

    * You may be only one person in the world, but
you may also be the world to one person.

    * Some mistakes are too much fun to only make
once.

    * We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are
sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have
weird names, and all are different colors, but they
all have to live in the same box.

    * A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the
scenery on a detour.

    Have an awesome day and a great week... and know
that someone has thought about you today. . . . I did!

Thats a pretty cool analogy with the water. Thanks for sharing that!!

Happy you enjoyed, struggla. Its why i post these things. I hope someone out thre will enjoy and may even get some chizuk out of them. Keep up the "struggle"!

Hello everyone. I hope everyone helping at home getting ready for shabbos so they dont have time to read my post.
I have this problem that im looking if anyone can throw me some eitzos for. Its called SHOPPING. i hate shopping and every week my wife and i get into a foghi who should do it and................. JUST JOKING JUST KIDDING!! My problem with shopping is what i see when i go shopping. I just got back from getting a couple of final things for shabbos and there was so much there i didnt want to see. I thought the Y"H has winter too, but apparently he stays half dress even in the cold. I dont know what to do. my wife really works hard the whole week and i told her that ill take care of the shopping. So theres no way of getting out of it. But now that im in it what do ii do? And as i stay sober more i bothers me more. Now i really try hard not to look but it aint easy. Does anyone have an idea for me?? thanks. And good Shabbos.

dont u live in j-town?
just head to the nearest chareidi supermarket.
usually its not as bad.

You the big bad man imtrying! Kick that yetzer hara outta town and have a great Shabbos!

Uri wrote on 20 Nov 2009 13:53:

Hey Uri im talking about the people in the supermarket. There must be alot of high schools around me or something cuz thers always girls around. I think theres a semi frum seminary around me too. They usually come to the stores and flirt with the workers. Weird if you ask me. ???