Know your Mother

· When you were one year old, she fed you and bathed you. You thanked her by crying all night long.
· When you were two years old, she taught you to walk. You thanked her by running away when she called.
· When you were three years old, she made all your meals with love. You thanked her by tossing your plate on the floor.
· When you were four years old, she got you some crayons. You thanked her by colouring the dining room table.
· When you were five years old, she dressed you for holidays. You thanked her by plopping into the nearest.
· When you were six years old, she walked you to school. You thanked her by screaming "I am not going to the school !".
· When you were seven years old, she bought you a baseball. You thanked her by throwing it to next-door-neighbours window.
· When you were eight years old, she handed you an icecream. You thanked her by dripping it all over your lap.
· When you were nine years lod, she paid for music lesson. You thanked her by never even bothering to practise.
· When you were ten years old, she drove you all day, from swimming to gymnastic to one birthday party to another. You thanked her by jumping out of the ear and never looking back.·                   When you were eleven years old, she took you and your friends to the movies. You thanked her by asking her to sit in a different row.
· When you were twelwe years old, she warned you not to watch certain tv shows. You thanked her by waiting until she left the house.
· When you were thirteen years old, she suggested a haircut. You thanked her by telling that she had no taste.
· When you were fourteen years old, she paid for a month away at summer camp. You thanked her forgetting to write a single letter to her.
· When you were fifteen years old, she came home from work looking for a hug. You thanked her by having your bedroom door locked.
· When you were sixteen years old, she taught how to drive the vehicle. You thanked her by taking every chance you could.
· When you seventeen years old, she had an expecting an important, call. You thanked her by being on the phone all over the night.
· When you were eighteen years old, she wept at your high school graduation. You thanked her by staying out partying until dawn.
· When you were nineteen years old. she paid for your higher education and drove you to campus.You thanked her by saying good-bye outside the dormitory so you wouldn't be embrassed in front of your friends.
· When you were twenty years old, she asked whether you were seeing anyone. You thanked her by saying "It's none of your business".
· When you were twentyone years old,she suggested certain careers for your future. You thanked her by sating, "I don't want to be like you".
· When you were twentytwo years old, she hugged you at your college graduation. You thanked her by asking whether she could pay for a trip to the west.
· When you were twenty eight years old, she helped to pay for your wedding, and she cried and told you how deeply she loved you. You thanked her by moving half-way across the country.
· When you were thirty years old, she called with some advice on the baby. You thanked her by telling her "things are cdifferent now".
· When you fourty years old, she called to remind you of a relatives birthday. You thanked her by telling you were really busy right now.
· When you were fifty years old, she fell ill and needed you to take care of her. You thanked her by reading about the burden parents become of thier children.

And then, one day, she quietly died. And every thing you never did came crashing down like thunder on your heart. If she's still around, never forget to love her more than ever.And if she's not. Remember her unconditional love and pass it on. Always remember to love the mother. Because you have only one mother in your lifetime.

Life B4 Computers!

THERE WAS LIFE BEFORE THE COMPUTER!

An application was for employment

A program was a TV show

A cursor used profanity

A keyboard was a piano!

Memory was something that you lost with age

A CD was a bank account!

And if you had a broken disk,

It would hurt when you found out!

Compress was something you did to garbage

Not something you did to a file

And if you unzipped anything in public

You'd be in jail for a while!

Log on was adding wood to a fire

Hard drive was a long trip on the road

A mouse pad was where a mouse lived

And a backup happened to your commode!

Cut- you did with a pocket knife

Paste- you did with glue

A web was a spider's home

And a virus was the flu!

I guess I'll stick to my pad and paper

And the memory in my head

I hear nobody's been killed in a computer crash But when it happens

they wish they were dead!

Think about it! It is sooo true. We are all so much addicted to this new era of computers. It can be both advantageous and disadvantageous. But using it extensively for every single, silly things can eventually lead us nowhere but the destruction of ourselves. When we know that life can be in existence without the computer why not use it minimally and save all the energy we use for it. Of course we have to use it for many important aspects but the message I am trying to convey is not to exceed our limits.

Green thing

Checking out at Coles, the young cashier suggested to the older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day. 

Back then, we returned milk bottles, pop bottles and beer bottles to the shop. The shop sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were re cycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocers and didn't climb into a 200-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's nappies because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 2000 watts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right. We didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of Yorkshire. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the post, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn petrol just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right. We didn't have the green thing back then.

When we were thirsty we drank from a tap instead of drinking from a plastic bottle of water which was tossed into landfill. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then. 

Back then, people took the bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical socket in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest fish and chip shop.  

But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then? 

Story - Temper Mangaement

There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence....

Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all, he told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. 

The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.He said, "You have done well my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there."

A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. A wound on the flesh may at least fade away but the wounds left on the heart will never move on. It is always accompanying us whether by our will or not. Hence it is wise to be careful before taking an action against somebody and it is more wise before telling  bad things to somebody.

Now have you hurt anyone? If so it is time to go to them and apologize so that they can at least forgive you and try to the bad memories away...