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    One of those days/nights

    We all get them, I think - a bad day from start to finish - mine was yesterday.

    I woke up and said to Ems, "its going to be a bad day today, I can feel it!"

    Got to work and had to take the lorry out for some timed deliveries and collections. A few miles up the road, there was an accident. Everyone stopped and that put me behind lots. Left at 2.40. What a crap day so far!

    6.37 PM - Em's phone rang. "Where are you? I have just finished work and missed the bus". So off I went to the other side of town to pick her up. Traffic a little busy - but hey, coming back the traffic is very busy. Derby country are at home and I am stuck in the football traffic. , A few swear words came out and the car was silent.

    Driving through the traffic, my phone rang. Didn't answer it.

    I got home and saw it had been my daughter. So I called her. "What's up?" "Oh the cooker's broken and I'm not sure what's wrong!" IT'S 7.20 PM.

    "Well I have no idea, look it up on the computer and let me know later".

    Other daughter calls 8pm to arrange the wedding plans for this Saturday. That's all I need to put on my happy face.

    Then to put everything into perspective a very good friend called to say he had lost him mum today.

    Makes my day look silly now.

    Live every day the best you can!


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    I met a guy a couple of weeks ago sitting under a tree smiling. An old guy, my attention was drawn to him, not just by his smile, but by the fact he had one brown leg and one pinkish one! It was a prosthetic. He let me feel the lumps of shrapnel in his arm and his thigh. He was carrying enough metal to make him worth weighing-in at a scrapyard. He came home from the fields when he was 13 to find his mother, father and brother murdered in the house.

    He joined the Army and lost a leg stepping on an anti-personnel mine. He was also shot with a 7.62 at one point. Nice scar on his stomach and exit wound on his back. He married and his wife gave birth to a stillborn deformed child. She later died from some form of cancer. Yet, when I stopped to chat to him, he remarked on how beautiful the day was. That put everything into perspective for me!



    Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
    The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.


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    Quote Originally Posted by stevewool View Post
    Live everyday the best you can!
    Easier said then done but the only way really.

    These inspiring words from Rudyard Kipling have been part of my life since I first read the poem in 1962:-

    If you can keep your head when all about you
    are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    but make allowance for their doubting too;
    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
    or being hated, don't give way to hating,
    and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

    If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
    If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;
    If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
    Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build them up with worn-out tools:

    If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
    And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
    If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,
    And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to you: "Hold on!"

    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
    If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
    If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
    Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
    And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Terpe View Post
    Easier said then done but the only way really.

    These inspiring words from Rudyard Kipling have been part of my life since I first read the poem in 1962:-

    If you can keep your head when all about you
    are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    but make allowance for their doubting too;
    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
    or being hated, don't give way to hating,
    and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

    If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
    If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;
    If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
    Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build them up with worn-out tools:

    If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
    And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
    If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,
    And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to you: "Hold on!"

    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch,
    If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
    If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
    Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
    And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!
    Great read, but must admit I would never be able to remember it, I admire those who were able. Thanks Peter!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Michael Parnham View Post
    Great read, but must admit I would never be able to remember it, I admire those who were able. Thanks Peter!
    My school had the motto "Fill the unforgiving minute"
    A line from that poem.
    We were all expected to memorise the whole poem and recite it on demand.

    So many great lines used all over the world.
    There is an inscription above the entry to Wimbledon Centre Court which reads:-
    "If you can meet with triumph and disaster / And treat those two imposters just the same"

    From that poem

    I can honestly put hand on heart and say I've followed the advice in that poem always.


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