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Ray Bradbury. I started reading his works in grade school. Since I loved to read books, Fahrenheit 451 scared me. He was a brilliant author, much like Rod Serling, (of Twilight Zone fame) always went for the twist while coming back to the moral of the story.
Excellent author but he was, what, 91? Pretty ripe old age.
I saw an interesting program on PBS the other night about people over 90. They showed about 10 people who ranged between 91 and 103 and what they were doing in their lives. They were amazing…all of them.
One guy did the panthalon in the senior olympics. One was driving a taxi. The one thing that seemed to tie them all together was that almost all of them did some kind of daily exercise. <sigh>
There was one couple, 91 and 94 getting MARRIED! The minister said something about Noah living to 600-something and told them, "you kids are just beginning life!"
single moment, and always go for the "high ground" so there are no regrets when they are laying you out on that cold slab. Goodness knows, most of us don’t make it to our 90’s and those of us who have gotten past the 50′, 60′ and 70′ mark know that the time flies by in a blink of the eye. So for all you young whippersnappers out there – you don’t have to sky dive to LIVE life, just be kind to people, tell the people you love that you love them, turn a wrong into a right, forgive fast and like the song goes, "don’t worry, be happy"…can you change one thing that you are worried about? No. Let God handle it – put it in his hands.
waits for no man as they say. Why is it as you get older time goes faster? And when you’re a kid a day is a lifetime. It should be the other way around. I’ve come to the conclusion that I will never have enough time no matter how long I live. My advice to anyone is to pursue what you love and don’t worry about money and accumulating “stuff.”
my second grade teacher telling us about how a man went to prison and was going to be executed. He said his only regret in life was that he did not "live" more of the minutes he wasted away because now he didn’t have any more of those minutes left.
That must have been a pretty powerful message for me to remember it so vividly all this time.
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