Pencil
Jakarta Post columnist Aruna P.H. got it from the SMS:
The pencil maker told his pencils five important lessons.1st, everything you do will always leave a mark.
2nd, you can always correct your mistakes.
3rd, what is important is what is inside you.
4th, in life you will undergo painful sharpenings which will make you a better pencil.
5th, to be the best pencil you can you must allow yourself to be guided by the hand that holds you.
It has been quite depressing for me in the last few days, hearing of one death after another.
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Death always seems to be something just out of your understanding, responsibility, control and power. This is completely inaccurate.
No one dies under any circumstances or in a disaster that one is not prepared to die. There is always some conscious recognition, however, though the individual may play tricks with himself and pretend it is not there. Even animals sense their dying ahead of time and on that level man or woman is no different.
No man or woman consciously knows for sure which day will be the last for him or her in this particular life. It seems, perhaps, easier to have no conscious idea of the year or time that death might occur. Unconsciously of course each man and woman knows, and yet hides the knowledge
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May 2, 2006 09:52 AM
We mere mortals cannot run away from this inescapable fate. Lets hope that in our very short life, we do make a different.
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May 2, 2006 10:10 AM
Go back to Mitch Albom's "Tuesdays with Morrie", and remember his eternal; "Death ends a life, not a relationship". Cherish those relationships. They'll live with you in your memory.
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May 2, 2006 10:13 AM
Mitch Albom does make you take a deeper look into life.
I keep thinking of this quote, although I don't know who it's from...
A person who has passed on is never truly gone, for he still lives in your thoughts and your heart, thus granting him immortality.
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May 2, 2006 10:22 AM