Stripes
TCG Master
- 442
- Posts
- 20
- Years
- Age 35
- Kinda got lost when I ran into that last asteroid
- Seen Nov 1, 2005
Hope you all enjoy this. Read it carefully and understand what it's saying.
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>
>
> The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us
> to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around
> when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.
> I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with
> a smile that lit up her entire being.
>
> She said, "Hi handsome. My name is Rose.
> I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?"
> I laughed and enthusiastically responded, "Of course you may!" and she
> gave me a giant squeeze.
> "Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?" I asked.
> She jokingly replied, "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, and
> have a couple of kids..."
> "No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be
> taking on this challenge at her age.
> "I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!"
> she told me.
>
> After class we walked to the student union building and shared a
> chocolate milkshake.
> We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would
> leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening
> to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.
> Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went.
>
> She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her
> from the other students. She was living it up.
>
> At! the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football
> banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to
> the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her
> three by five cards on the floor.
>
> Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and
> simply said, "I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this
> whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me
> just tell you what I know."
>
> As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, "We do not stop playing
> because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.
>
> There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving
> success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a
> dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.
>
> We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know
it!
>
> There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.
> If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't
> do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am
> eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never
> do anything I will turn eighty-eight.
>
> Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea
> is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets.
> The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for
> things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with
> regrets." She concluded her speech by courageously singing "The Rose."
>
> She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our
> daily lives.
>
> At the year's end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all
> those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her
> sleep.
> Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the
> wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all
> you can possibly be.
>
> When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to
> your friends and family, they'll really enjoy it!
>
> These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.
> REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
> We make a Living by what we get, We make a Life by what we give.
> God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God brings you to it,
> He will bring you through it.
>
"Good friends are like stars.........You don't always see them, but you
> know they are always there."
>
>
>
>
> The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us
> to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around
> when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.
> I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with
> a smile that lit up her entire being.
>
> She said, "Hi handsome. My name is Rose.
> I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?"
> I laughed and enthusiastically responded, "Of course you may!" and she
> gave me a giant squeeze.
> "Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?" I asked.
> She jokingly replied, "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, and
> have a couple of kids..."
> "No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be
> taking on this challenge at her age.
> "I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!"
> she told me.
>
> After class we walked to the student union building and shared a
> chocolate milkshake.
> We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would
> leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening
> to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me.
> Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went.
>
> She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her
> from the other students. She was living it up.
>
> At! the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football
> banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to
> the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her
> three by five cards on the floor.
>
> Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and
> simply said, "I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this
> whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me
> just tell you what I know."
>
> As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, "We do not stop playing
> because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.
>
> There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving
> success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a
> dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.
>
> We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know
it!
>
> There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.
> If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't
> do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am
> eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never
> do anything I will turn eighty-eight.
>
> Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea
> is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets.
> The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for
> things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with
> regrets." She concluded her speech by courageously singing "The Rose."
>
> She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our
> daily lives.
>
> At the year's end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all
> those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her
> sleep.
> Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the
> wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all
> you can possibly be.
>
> When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to
> your friends and family, they'll really enjoy it!
>
> These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.
> REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.
> We make a Living by what we get, We make a Life by what we give.
> God promises a safe landing, not a calm passage. If God brings you to it,
> He will bring you through it.
>
"Good friends are like stars.........You don't always see them, but you
> know they are always there."
>
