Hear the music.....before the song is over

Received via email today.....enjoy!

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 women on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that
 fateful night in an effort to 'cut back the calories'. 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 'Who wants to be a
 millionaire' 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 even 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 live s 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 roller blades 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!