Food for thought.

Joecooke007 · Brown Belt

That was some ggggggooooooooooooooooooddddddddd brain food!

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Prodigy-Child · Green Belt

im a bit lost.....actually very lost

Bon · Black Belt

Prodigy-Child, why ?

If your bank account is credited with money every day, but at the end of the day it's cleared.. wouldn't you draw out the money each day before it gets cleared ?

Just an analogy for time.. We have x amount of seconds per day, and at the end of each day it's cleared.. there's no turning back the clock. It's just saying Make Use Of Your Time!

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Deathcometh · Orange Belt

I would like to say this here and now I have been a car wreck and I was driving. The value of a second is simple but in times can seem like forever. And a milli-second is gone and past before you know what hit you. But yet in that milli-second I had time to turn the car in the right direction so it didn't flip.

KickChick · Black Belt

Charles Plumb was a US Navy jet pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was destroyed by surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected
and parachuted into enemy hands. He was captured and spent 6 years in a communist Vietnamese prison. He survived the ordeal and now lectures on lessons learned from that experience.

One day, when Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant, a man at
another table came up and said, "You're Plumb! You flew jet fighters in
Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were shot down!"

"How in the world did you know that?" asked Plumb. "I packed your parachute," the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and gratitude. The man pumped his hand and said, "I guess it worked!" Plumb assured him, "It sure did. If your chute hadn't worked, I wouldn't be here today."

Plumb couldn't sleep that night, thinking about that man. Plumb says, "I
kept wondering what he had looked like in a Navy uniform: a white hat, a
bib in the back, and bell-bottom trousers. I wonder how many times I might have seen him and not even said 'Good morning, how are you?' or anything because, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a sailor."

Plumb thought of the many hours the sailor had spent at a long wooden
table in the bowels of the ship, carefully weaving the shrouds and folding the silks of each chute, holding in his hands each time the fate of someone he didn't know.

Now, Plumb asks his audience, "Who's packing your parachute?" Everyone has someone who provides what they need to make it through the day. He also points out that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down over enemy territory - he needed his physical parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these supports before reaching safety.

Sometimes in the daily challenges that life gives us, we miss what is
really important.

We may fail to say hello, please, or thank you, congratulate someone on something wonderful that has happened to them, give a compliment, or just do something nice for no reason.

As you go through this week, this month, this new year .... recognize people who pack your parachutes.

ZeRo · Black Belt

thanks for the brain food jack, quite an interesting thought.

KickChick · Black Belt

A group of students were asked to list what they thought were the present Seven Wonders of the World. Though there was some disagreement, the following got the most votes:

1..... Egypt's Great Pyramids

2..... Taj Mahal

3..... Grand Canyon

4..... Panama Canal

5..... Empire State Building

6..... St. Peter's Basilica

7......China's Great Wall

While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one quiet student hadn't turned in her paper yet. So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list.
The girl replied, "Yes, a little. I couldn't quite make up my mind,
because there were so many." The teacher said, "Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help." The girl hesitated, then read, "I think the SevenWonders of the World are:

1.....to see

2.....to taste

3.....to touch

4.....to hear She hesitated a little, and then added,

5.....to feel

6.....to laugh, or Smile

7.....and most of all..... to love

The room was so full of silence you could have heard a pin drop. Those things we overlook as simple and "ordinary" are truly wondrous.
A gentle reminder for this coming year that the most precious things in life cannot be bought, or built.

Live Well and Be At Peace With Yourself!

Kensai · Black Belt

Very true wise master.<rei>

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