| MY WAY
A man entered a Nevada house of ill repute and announced, "I'm offering $20,000 to any woman here who will come into the desert with me and do it my way!" One lady agreed and off they went, into the desert. After about an hour of fairly standard lovemaking, she got curious. "Now, exactly what is 'your way'?" He replied, "On credit!" There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him
a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must
hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven
37 nails into the fence Over the next next few weeks, as he learned to
control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father
that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and
led him to the fence He said, "You have done well, my son, but look
at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you
say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." --Winston Churchill "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." --Clarence Darrow "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." --William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway) "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." --Groucho Marx "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." --Mark Twain "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." --Oscar Wilde "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend if you have one." --George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it." --Moses Hadas "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." --Groucho Marx "The covers of this book are too far apart." --Ambrose Bierce The English word "thanks" comes from the same root word as "think." But they not only share a similar background, they are related in another way. It seems the more we think, the more we thank. One woman illustrated the how thinking and thanking are related in a visit to the eye doctor. She complained to her ophthalmologist that, as she grew older, her eyesight was getting worse. He examined her eyes and could not be encouraging about the future of her eyesight. But to his surprise, she did not seem to be upset. She told him all she was grateful for: her deceased husband; her children and their families; her friends; the many years she has enjoyed upon this earth; her vast library of memories. She had done a great deal of thinking about these things. "My eyesight is getting worse," she summarized, "but I'm not going to fret over that." Her doctor later made this observation: "Her eyesight is poor, but her vision is better than most people." She clearly saw what many never see -- all the good in her life. And she was content. When we take time to think, and make time to thank, we see more clearly. It sounds like a good way to improve your vision. |