Mama Knows Best

Jennifer's wedding day was fast approaching.
Nothing could dampen her excitement - not even her parent's nasty divorce.
Her mother had found the PERFECT dress to wear and would be the best-dressed mother-of-the- bride ever!
A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father's new young wife had bought the exact same dress as her mother!
Jennifer asked her father's new young wife to exchange it, but she refused.
"Absolutely not, I look like a million bucks in this dress, and I'm wearing it," she replied.
Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, "Never mind sweetheart. I'll get another dress. After all, it's your special day."
A few days later, they went shopping and did find another gorgeous dress.
When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, "Aren't you going to return the other dress? You really don't have another occasion where you could wear it."
Her mother just smiled and replied, "Of course I do, dear. I'm wearing it to the rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding..."

ParadoX of ouR timE

Today we have bigger houses and smaller families

More conveniences , but less time

We Have More degrees, but less common sense

More knowledge , but less judgement

We have more experts, but more problems

More medicine, but less wellness

We spend too recklessly

Laugh too little

Drive too fast

Get to angry too quickly

Stay up too late

Read too little

We multiplied our possessions, but reduce our values

We talk too much, love too little and lie too often

We’ve learned how to make living, but not a life

We’ve added years to life, not life to years

We have taller buildings, but shorter tempers

Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints

We spend more, but have less

We buy more, enjoy it less

We’ve been all the way to the moon and back

But have trouble crossing the street to meet our neighbors.

We’ve conquered outer space,

But not inner space

We’ve split the atom

We write more, learn less,

plan more, but accomplish less

we’ve learn to rush, but not to wait,

we have higher incomes , but lower morals

We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies

But have less communications

We are long on quantity,

But less in quality

These are the time of fast foods and slow digestion

Tall men , and short character

More leisure and less fun ,,,,,more kinds of foods ,,,,, but less nutrition

Two incomes ,,,,,but more divorce

Fancier houses ,,,, but broken homes

That’s why I propose , that as of today , you do not keep anything for special

occasion , because every day you live is a special occasion.

Search for knowledge , read more , sit on your front porch and admire the

view without paying attention to your needs.

Spend more time with your family and friends , eat your favorite foods,and

visit the places you love .

Life is a chain of moment of enjoyment, not only about survival.

Use your crystal goblets, do not save your best perfume, and use it

every time you feel you want it.

Remove from vocabulary phrases like “ one day “ and “ someday”

Let’s write that letter we thought of writing “ one of these days “

Let’s tell our families and friends how much we love them.

Do not delay anything that adds laughter and joy to your life .

Every day , every hour , and every minute is special.

And you don’t know if it will be your last .

.:one_nice_day:.

REFLECTIONS

“I made an agreement of peaceful coexistence with time: neither he pursues me, nor I run from him,
one day we will find each other "
(Mario Lago)

“Never walk on the traveled path, because it only leads you where the others have been "
(Grahan Bell)

“Always there is a drop of madness in love, yet always there is a drop of reason in madness”
(F. Nietzshe)

“Time is very slow for those who wait,
very fast for those who are scared,
very long for those who lament,
very short for those who celebrate.
But, for those who love, time is eternity"
(William Shakespeare)

"Many people lose the small joys, in hope for the big happiness .“
(Pearl S. Buck)

“Life can be understood only looking behind, but can be lived only looking ahead."
(Soren Kierkegaard

“Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit"
(Bertrand Russel)

“Nothing can be taught to a man; but it’s possible to help him find the answer within himself."
(Galileo Galilei)

"There are people who speak to us and we do not listen to them; there are people who hurt us and they don’t leave a scar, but there are people who simply appear in our life and they mark us for ever.”
(Cecília Meireles)

“The true philosophy is to learn again to see the world”.
(Merleau-Ponty )

“Love is the best music in the score of life. Without it , one would forever be out of tune in the immense choir of humanity."(Roque Schneider )

“Love me when I less deserves it, because it’s then when I need it most"
(Chinese Proverb)

.:one_nice_day:.

The Art of Illness

If you don't want to be ill
~speak your feelings

Emotions and feelings that are hidden, repressed, end in illnesses as: gastritis, ulcer, lumbar pains, spinal. With time, the repression of the feelings degenerates to the cancer. Then, we go to a confidante, to share our intimacy, ours "secret", our errors! The dialogue, the speech, the word, is a powerful remedy and an excellent therapy!

If you don't want to be ill
~make decisions

The undecided person remains in doubt, in anxiety, in anguish. Indecision accumulates problems, worries and aggressions. Human history is made of decisions. To decide is precisely to know to renounce, to know to lose advantages and values to win others. The undecided people are victims of gastric ailments, nervous pains and problems of the skin.

If you don't want to be ill
~find solutions

Negative people do not find solutions and they enlarge problems. They prefer lamentation, gossip, pessimism. It is better to light a match that to regret the darkness. A bee is small, but produces one of the sweetest things that exist. We are what we think. The negative thought generates negative energy that is transformed into illness.

If you don't to be ill
~don't live by appearances

Who hides reality, pretends , poses and always wants to give the impression of being well. He wants to be seen as perfect, easy-going, etc. but is accumulating tons of weight. A bronze statue with feet of clay. There is nothing worse for the health than to live on appearances and facades. These are people with a lot of varnish and little root. Their destiny is the pharmacy, the hospital and pain.

If you don't want to be ill
~accept

The refusal of acceptance and the absence of self-esteem, make us alienate ourselves. Being at one with ourselves is the core of a healthy life. They who do not accept this, become envious, jealous, imitators, ultra-competitive, destructive. Be accepted, accept that you are accepted, accept the criticisms. It is wisdom, good sense and therapy.

If you don't want to be ill
~trust

Who does not trust, does not communicate, is not opened, is not related, does not create deep and stable relations, does not know to do true friendships. Without confidence, there is not relationship. Distrust is a lack of faith in you and in faith itself.

If you don't want to be ill
~don't live life sad

Good humor. Laughter. Rest. Happiness. These replenish health and bring long life. The happy person has the gift to improve the environment wherever they live. “Good humor saves us from the hands of the doctor". Happiness is health and therapy.