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Life is about choices
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"The first thing that went through my mind was the well being of my soon-to-born daughter," Michael replied.chaussure tn "Then,as I lay on the ground,remembered I had two choices:I could choose to live or I could choose to die.I chose to live.""Weren't you scared?Did you lose consciousness?"I asked. Michael continued,"...the paramedics were great.They kept telling me I was going to be fine.But when they wheeled me into the operation room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses,I got really scared.In their eyes,l read'He's a dead man.'I knew I needed to take action." "What did you do?"I asked."Well,there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me"said Michael. "She asked me if I was allergic to anything.'Yes,' I said.The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply.I took a deep breath and yelled",'Gravity'"Over their laughter,I told them, 'I'm choosing to live.Operate on me as if I am alive,not dead'."

A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:"tn chaussures 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,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.chaussures nike tn 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,chaussures requin 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 favourite 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.

When I was a kid,requin chaussures I remember my dad used to sing an old,WWI song,"Pack up your Troubles," while he was getting dressed for work in the morning.The lyrics from the chorus of the song play in my head often when I'm packing for a trip-"Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile,smile."Lately,with TSA regulations seemingly changing daily,packing my kit bag with clothes, toothbrush and Ziploc-baggie of three-ounce bottles seems more like trouble than fun,chaussures hommes fun,fun.For my friend, Vikki, though, what to pack isn't as important as whom to pack. She takes her family and friends everywhere. Vikki took her mother skiing in Mammoth last November and she took my mother-in-law to the ruins of Machu Picchu and Rome.

Vikki has taken numerous people to exotic places like the outback in Australia,and the Greek Islands-all posthumously and in her bag.You see,Vikki collects prayer cards from funerals and memorials of her loved ones and takes them with her wherever she goes.The cards,some with watercolor images of Jesus and others with pictures of a deceased friend and"in loving memory" printed beneath, requin tn are bound together with a rubber band and stashed somewhere in Vikki's carry-on.ykl

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