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This story is how I feel about life - and I believe it is more the reality of how we should live than anything I have ever read before - and I wanted to share it with my friends here at MB.
I think it just means that we should get on with the process of living and let go of the hurts - forgive where needed, and let them go - because it hurts us more to hang onto them.
I didn't write it - I plagered it - I just hope the guy who wrote it understands why I would post it here!!!
Jan
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This story changed my life and I thought maybe it could change
others too, so I'm sharing it with you.
This story was told to me by my sister, whom it happened to.
She was really upset, she hadn't seen or spoken to her best
friend Jim in a couple of weeks, and he shows up at her door and
commands her to get dressed and go riding with him. So she
finally does.
As they were riding, they passed a garden full of flowers.
Jim says "Do you see those flowers?"
"Yes," she says.
"Do you think that when someone steps on those flowers that they
lie there and feel sorry for themselves?" Jim says.
"No."
"No, they immediately start to mend their wounds so they can
heal, and grow strong and healthy!"
They ride a little further and Jim points up in a tree,
"You see those squirrels up there?
Do you think that when people shoot at them they go hide
forever?"
"No," she says.
About that time the ocean comes into sight.
Jim says "You see that ocean out there?
Do you think that when there's a hurricane out there that the
ocean doesn't go back out because it's afraid to face the
storm?"
"No," she says.
"Then, why have you stopped living because you have been hurt?"
That story really hit me like a ton of bricks!
The worst part was the fact that Jim died a short time later.
And that's when she realized how much precious time she wasted.
Why have you stopped living because you have been hurt?
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Thanks. Made my day. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/smile.gif" />
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One little step at time, getting to know me now, excellent story.
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