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LONG...but worth reading!
Posted by
PEGASUS
(VIP) 25 Apr 2005 10:41am
The first day of school our professor introduced himself and
challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know.
I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my
shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady
beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.
She said, 'Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven
years old. Can I give you a hug?'
I laughed and enthusiastically responded, 'Of course you may!'
and she gave me a giant squeeze.
'Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?' I asked.
She jokingly replied, 'I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married,
And have a couple of kids...'
'No seriously,' I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her
to be taking on this challenge at her age.
'I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm
getting one!' she told me.
After class we walked to the student union building and shared a
chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends. Every day for the
next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop.
I was always mesmerized listening to this 'time machine' as she
shared her wisdom and experience with me.
Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and
she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress
up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the
other students. She was living it up.
At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football
banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced
and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared
speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated
and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply
said, 'I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey
is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell
you what I know.'
As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, 'We do not stop
playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.
There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and
achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day.
You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.
We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't
even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and
growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year
and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am
eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything
I will turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any
talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in
change. Have no regrets.
The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for
things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with
regrets
She concluded her speech by courageously singing 'The Rose.'
She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our
daily lives.
At the year's end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all
those years ago.
One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two
thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful
woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can
possibly be.
LONG....but worth reading
Posted by
(VIP) 26 Apr 2005 1:46am
So VERY true.....Live long & have NO regrets.
Mark Twain said it best:
'Age is just a matter of mind: if you don't mind, it doesn't matter'
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