This was passed to me by a friend. She is a remarkable person to say the least. When she sent this to me, she told me of how it made her realize that the world seems to slip by without our notice. I am hoping that after you read this, you too will take the time to smell a rose, enjoy a sunset or a sunrise; and maybe put to rest old hurts or old arguments.

Be Blessed my friends, it is true, you never know how long you have til the end has come...

Fire

A friend of mine 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 paper 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; for 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 understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up 
  to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses
 every day. I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if i feel like 
  it.

  I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it 
  whenever I want to. The words "Someday..." and "One Day..." are fading 
  away from my dictionary. If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, 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... letters that i wanted to write

    "One of this days".

   I would regret and feel sad, because I didn't say to my brothers and 
  sons, not times enough at 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, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special 
  day..
   Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.