I dreamed I had an interview with God.
"Come in," God said to me, "So, you would like to interview
Me?"
"If you have the time," I
said.
God smiled and said: "My
time is called eternity and is enough to
do everything; what questions do you have in mind to ask me?"
"None that are new to you.
What's the one thing that surprises
you most about mankind?"
God answered: "That they
get bored of being children, are in a
rush to grow up, and then long to be children again. That they lose their
health to make money and then lose their money to restore their health.
That by thinking anxiously about the future, they forget the present, such
that they live neither for the present nor the future.
That they live as if they will never
die,
and they die as if they had never lived..."
God's hands took mine and we were
silent.
After a long period, I said, "May I ask you another question?"
"As a Parent, what would you ask your children to do?"
God replied with a smile:
"To learn that they cannot make anyone love them.
What they can do is to let themselves be loved.
To learn that it takes years to build
trust, and a few seconds to
destroy it.
To learn that what is most valuable
is not what they have in their
lives, but who they have in their lives.
To learn that it is not good to
compare themselves to others.
There will be others better or worse than they are.
To learn that a rich person is not
one who has the most, but is
one who needs the least.
To learn that they should control
their attitudes, otherwise their
attitudes will control them.
To learn that it only takes a few
seconds to open profound
wounds in persons we love, and that it takes many years to heal them.
To learn to forgive by practicing
forgiveness.
To learn that there are persons that
love them dearly, but simply
do not know how to show their feelings.
To learn that money can buy
everything but happiness.
To learn that while at times they may
be entitled to be upset, that
does not give them the right to upset those around them.
To learn that great dreams do not
require great wings, but a
landing gear to achieve.
To learn that true friends are
scarce, he/she who has found one
has found a true treasure.
To learn that it is not always enough
that they be forgiven by
others, but that they forgive themselves.
To learn that they are masters of
what they keep to themselves
and slaves of what they say.
To learn that they shall reap what
they plant; if they plant gossip
they will harvest intrigues, if they plant love they will harvest
happiness.
To learn that true happiness is not
to achieve their goals but to
learn to be satisfied with what they already achieved.
To learn that happiness is a
decision. They decide to be happy
with what they are and have, or die from envy and jealousy of what
they lack.
To learn that two people can look at
the same thing and see
something totally different.
To learn that those who are honest
with themselves without
considering the consequences go far in life.
To learn that even though they may
think they have nothing to
give, when a friend cries with them, they find the strength to appease
the pain.
To learn that by trying to hold on to
loved ones, they very quickly
push them away; and by letting go of those they love, they will be side
by side forever.
To learn that even though the word
"love" has many different
meanings, it loses its value when it is overstated.
Anonymous
Have A Blessed Sunday!
Marion :-)
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