Imzadi
♥ Saved by an angel in a trench coat!
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This is a post I wrote 3 years ago. I reposted it here the last couple of years. There has been such hateful, bashing with all the political threads on this board that has the ironic title now of being called a "Community" Board, I didn't bother to bump it. It hadn't occurred to me to bump it for you people, here, who would get it. 
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1221810
I'm a native New Yorker. Right now, from my window, I can see the twin beams of light emanating from the World Trade Center site shooting upward, disappearing into Heaven, where I hope the souls lost that day have gone.
Earlier, from my vantage point, the bright half moon passed directly behind & through those twin beams of light. The glow from the moon cast in that beam, reflected horizontally across, creating a WHITE CROSS of light up in the sky, with the half moon in the center of the cross. It was a very amazing sight to see!
Anyway, I read or listened to a lot of the phone calls and recorded messages on answering machines made on Sept. 11, that were released to the public. In all the ones I read, there was not a single one where a person trapped in the WTC or on a plane, said anything like, "Make sure you keep my Oscar/Pulitzer/Nobel Prize polished on the mantle for me after I'm gone." Not one "Keep buying my book to keep it on the Best Sellers list after I'm gone." No one talked about their fancy, significant titles of being CEO or whatever.
Instead, when they knew they only had minutes to live, or even the ones who thought they were safe (in the 1 hr 42 minutes before the first tower fell,) not a single person was talking about their material or physical achievements & accomplishments.
In the final moments, in the final analysis, what was important was calling someone they loved. To reassure them, or to hear that beloved voice one last time, or at the very least, to leave a message letting their loved ones know that they are loved and that THEY are their last thoughts before they die.
If there is a positive legacy we can take from all those calls, it is that: While you make all your lists of Values, Goals, Dreams or Lifetime Achievements; or when you're b*tching about some nattering little thing, put it all in it's right perspective & priority. Know what's really important - at the end - and live accordingly.
Know who you'd be calling in your last moments and know who you'd want to have calling you. Live according to that NOW. Let them know NOW and in all the moments until you go. And live in a way that those persons you'd want to call you, will WANT to call YOU.
I look at an empty sky, save two beams of light, where two massive, solid buildings use to blot out the sky. Life is all so short & temporary, from the solid, concrete buildings, the fancy titles of importance/achievements, the best laid plans, to the very time we are here.
But the love we've made & shared after everything else is gone, the differences we made in the lives & hearts of others and they in ours: that remains.
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1221810
I'm a native New Yorker. Right now, from my window, I can see the twin beams of light emanating from the World Trade Center site shooting upward, disappearing into Heaven, where I hope the souls lost that day have gone.
Earlier, from my vantage point, the bright half moon passed directly behind & through those twin beams of light. The glow from the moon cast in that beam, reflected horizontally across, creating a WHITE CROSS of light up in the sky, with the half moon in the center of the cross. It was a very amazing sight to see!
Anyway, I read or listened to a lot of the phone calls and recorded messages on answering machines made on Sept. 11, that were released to the public. In all the ones I read, there was not a single one where a person trapped in the WTC or on a plane, said anything like, "Make sure you keep my Oscar/Pulitzer/Nobel Prize polished on the mantle for me after I'm gone." Not one "Keep buying my book to keep it on the Best Sellers list after I'm gone." No one talked about their fancy, significant titles of being CEO or whatever.
Instead, when they knew they only had minutes to live, or even the ones who thought they were safe (in the 1 hr 42 minutes before the first tower fell,) not a single person was talking about their material or physical achievements & accomplishments.
In the final moments, in the final analysis, what was important was calling someone they loved. To reassure them, or to hear that beloved voice one last time, or at the very least, to leave a message letting their loved ones know that they are loved and that THEY are their last thoughts before they die.
If there is a positive legacy we can take from all those calls, it is that: While you make all your lists of Values, Goals, Dreams or Lifetime Achievements; or when you're b*tching about some nattering little thing, put it all in it's right perspective & priority. Know what's really important - at the end - and live accordingly.
Know who you'd be calling in your last moments and know who you'd want to have calling you. Live according to that NOW. Let them know NOW and in all the moments until you go. And live in a way that those persons you'd want to call you, will WANT to call YOU.
I look at an empty sky, save two beams of light, where two massive, solid buildings use to blot out the sky. Life is all so short & temporary, from the solid, concrete buildings, the fancy titles of importance/achievements, the best laid plans, to the very time we are here.
But the love we've made & shared after everything else is gone, the differences we made in the lives & hearts of others and they in ours: that remains.
I needed to hear that today.
AND, something I needed to see.
). Gas prices are eating up my paycheck. 
The weather is gorgeous and I'm going ziplining next week!!
We live in such a great country that some corporations have so much money, they can afford to give free stuff away!
Just keep affirming, "This or something better now manifests for the highest good of ALL concerned" until the Universe gets so sick & tired of you say it, it just finally gives you what you want! 
Then you are in the 85% that gets work and it doesn't apply to you. 
) It was during the Reagan years when spending & being extravagant was in. 
They closed up a very successful restaurant here in NYC because it was such a time commitment, cut down their client load for another company they ran, and downsized to a nice 4 bedroom home. Last I heard, the whole family spends much of their time out of the home, in the local theatre, with the whole family doing community theatre productions together.
