Power to be Happy

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This life is yours.
Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well.
Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly.
Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature.
Take the power to control your own life.
No one else can do it for you.
Take the power to make your life happy.

Beauty

Wildfire

Each year, actress Whoopi Goldberg, co-hosts 'Comic Relief' to aid her country's homeless people. This is one among the many projects that she is involved in.

She says :
I fear waking up one morning and finding out that my life was all for nothing.
We are here for a reason. I believe a bit of the reason is to throw little torches out to reach people through the darkness.

When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope that they remember and are kind to someone else and so on. Soon, it will be like a wildfire and spread itself around.

Listening

Listening is..
knowing when to close your mouth and open your ears.

Looking into a friend's eyes, leaning forward or nodding your head can help someone to open up. The unspoken message is:

You are important
What you say is important
And I want to hear any and every secret
That you are willing to share with me..

Madness in Job Hunting

In a tight market job like today's, a bold imaginative stroke can work wonders.

A young job applicant walked down a corridor at Vogue Magazine in New York after failing to get an interview. As she passed the open door of a large editorial office, she noticed two empty desks and inquired about them. Learning that they have been vacated by 2 caption writers who had recently left the staff, she casually sat down, saying: 'This must be where I am supposed to work.'

The employees in the room stared as the young woman settled in, but her self possession discouraged questions. Very shortly, she was handed some photographs to caption, then more. And she kept right on working until she had an official job.

Such presumptions in seeking a job is usually not recommended. Job hunters are counseled to play it straight, follow traditional routines, avoid the garish, flamboyant and unconditional. And this is sound advice for most people most of the time.

Sometimes though, when you have fought the good fight through ego flattering months, it's good for the soul to smash out of the groove. An occasional bold stroke will not hurt too much. Surprisingly often, it works.

Aging

Age gracefully?
I think not. I will age ferociously instead.
Seize everything valuable within reach.
Extend, Question, Give. The face will follow.
No cosmetic surgeons in the world could ever produce such a face.

As Time Goes By

The day my daughter said she was moving in with her boyfriend, I shared what I know about living without any kind of tie such as marriage. But it was to no avail.

However, over the last few years, as i continue to learn more about living together, I was even more convinced it was the wrong thing to do. I became so determined to help young women and men avoid or cope with the pregnancies that all too often result from living together.

As our children become young adults, we can no longer make decisions for them.
Nor can we keep them completely away from harm. But at least we can arm them with all the facts that we can find.

The last thing that we can do is pray that they will make the right choices..