I Wonder How?

Author Unknown

I wonder how many of us can stop and count 10 simple things in our life that just
"took our breath away".......................
Maybe our lives are too busy
I saw Lisa Beamer on Good Morning America. If you
remember, she's the
wife
of Todd Beamer who said "Let's Roll!" and helped take
down the plane
that
was heading for Washington D.C. She said it's the
little things that
she
misses most about Todd - such as hearing the garage
door open as he
came
home, and her children running to meet him. She told a story from her
school days. "I have a very
special high
school
teacher many years ago whose husband died suddenly of
a heart attack.
About
a week after this death, she shared some of her
insight with a
classroom
of
students. As the late afternoon sunlight came
streaming in through the
classroom windows the class was nearly over, she
moved a few things
aside
on
the edge of her desk and sat down there. With a
gentle look of
reflection
on her face, she paused and said, "Class is over, I
would like to share
with
all of you, a thought that is unrelated to class, but
which I feel is
very
important. Each of us is put here on earth to learn,
share, love,
appreciate and give of ourselves. None of us knows
when this fantastic
experience will end. It can be taken away at any
moment. Perhaps this
is
the powers way of telling us that we must make the
most out of every
single
day."
Her eyes, beginning to water, she went on, "So I
would like you all to
make
me a promise. From now one, on your way to school, or
on your way
home,
find something beautiful to notice. It doesn't have
to be something
you
see, it could be a scent, perhaps a freshly baked
bread wafting out of
someone's house, or it could be the sound of the
breeze slightly
rustling
the leaves in the trees, or the way the morning light
catches one
autumn
leaf as it falls gently to the ground. Please look
for these things,
and
cherish them. For although it may sound trite to
some, these things
are
the
"stuff" of life. The little things we are put here on
earth to enjoy.
The
things we often take for granted. We must make it
important to notice
them,
for at anytime...it can all be taken away." The class
was completely
quiet.
We all picked up our books and filed out of the room
silently. That
afternoon, I noticed more things on my way home from
school than I had
that
whole semester. Every once in a while, I think of
that teacher and
remember
what an impression she made on all of us, and I try
to appreciate all
of
those things that sometimes we all overlook." "Take notice of something
special you see on your
lunch hour today. Go
barefoot. Or walk on the beach at sunset. Stop off on
the way home
tonight
to get a double dip ice cream cone. For as we get
older, it is not the
things we did that we often regret, but the things we
didn't do. If
you
like this, please pass it on to a friend, if not just
delete it and go
on
with your life!
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we
take, but by the
moments
that take our breath away......
Todd Beamer died on 9/11/2001
 

"Let's Roll!"

September 11, 2003 Remembrance