I answered a telephone call just now!!!!!!!!
From an old friend I'd not heard from for a long time.
'Hi,' she said.
'I just wanted to see how you're getting along.'
For suchlike reasons, our paths had simply not crossed for a protracted time.
It was good to talk with her. I wondered why we hadn't kept in touch better.
Toward the end of the conversation, she said,
'If you need me in any way, I'll be happy to help out.'
And she meant it!
-What if she doesn’t does not make a question! Let’s take things positively at least when they make us happy :-)
That call came at just the right time, as they so often do.
I needed those words of encouragement, a hug or a kiss on my forehead.
I hung up the phone feeling a satisfying lump of warmth in my chest.
And that day I re-learned something important about life:
Life is primarily about people, not plans and schedules,
Not to-do lists and a million tasks left undone -
it's about PEOPLE-who really matter!
To love and to know that we are loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
And happiness seems to be something that is in short supply for too many of us!
My friend reminded me that it is never enough just to love; we must also express it.What good are our affectionate feelings towards others if we don't find ways to let them know?
George William put it like this:
'Do not keep the alabaster box of your love and friendship
sealed up until your friends are dead.
Fill their lives with sweetness.
Speak approving, cheering words
While their ears can hear them and
While their hearts can be thrilled and made happier.
The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go.'
