ordinary 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 clothing 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 settee without worrying about anything and just relax .

I spend more time with my family & friends and less at work ..


Money is to be spent not saved .

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 ..


I go out with my friends whenever I want to rather than thinking I don't have the spare money or time ..

The words 'Someday . . . ' and ' One Day . . . .. ' are fading away from my dictionary ...
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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 ..
She might have told everyone how much she loved them .

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 . .

Each day, each hour, each minute, is special ..

Live for today, for tomorrow is promised to no-one .

If you got this, it's because someone cares for you and because, probably, there's someone you care about .

If you're too busy to send this out to other people and you say to yourself that you will send it 'One of these days' , remember that 'One day' is far away . . . or might never come . . .

No matter if you're superstitious or not, spend some time reading it .
It holds useful messages for the soul ...

Don't keep this message . .

This Tantra must leave your hands within 96 hours

Send copies and watch what goes on in the next four days

You'll have apleasantsurprise .

This is true, even if you're not superstitious ...

Now, here's the fun of it:

and your life will improve