Thought for the day

[Winnie]

“Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling some five balls in the air. You name them – Work, Family, Health, Friends and Spirit and you’re keeping all of these in the air.

You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls – Family, Health, Friends and Spirit – are made of glass. If you drop one of these; they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand that and strive for it.

Work efficiently during office hours and leave on time. Give the required time to your family, friends and have proper rest. Value has a value only if its value is valued.”

Bryan Dyson - former CEO of Coca Cola

[growler2058]

Under the age of 40? You won't understand.)
My mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread butter on bread on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleachbut we didn't get food poisoning.
school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e. Coli. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake or at the beach instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
We all took PE ..... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop sandshoes instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors that cost as much as a small car. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
We got the cane for doing something wrong at school, they used to call it discipline yet we all grew up to accept the rules and to honour & respect those older than us.
We had 50 kids in our class and we all learned to read and write, do maths and spell almost all the words needed to write a grammatically correct letter......., FUNNY THAT!!

We all said prayers in school irrespective of our religion, sang the national anthem and no one got upset.Staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention we wish we hadn’t got.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. We weren't!! Oh yeah ... And where was the antibiotics and sterilisation kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played “King of the Hill” on piles of gravel left on vacant building sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled out the 2/6pence bottle of iodine and then we got our backside spanked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10 day dose of antibiotics and then mum calls the lawyer to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?We never needed to get into group therapy and/or anger management classes.
We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
How did we ever survive?

The person who sent this to me didn’t mention Grandma who sugared the dummies when they dropped on the floor and before she put it back in the wailing mouth; nor the brandy she put in the bottle of milk to stop the baby crying; nor the alternate licking of the ice cream by the toddler and the dog; nor the food served up cold and stale until you ate it; nor having to leave the table if you spoke out of turn or attempting to leave the table without permission; or sitting down to a meal without washing face, hands and doing your hair. Certainly one wouldn’t dream of answering one’s parent back even if they were wrong….that would be a clear demonstration of disrespect particularly in your parent’s home which they allowed you to share. This, incidentally, is from the land of Australia the socalled unsophisticated country.



LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA.
AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED.

life's most simple pleasures are very often the best.

[growler2058]

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.
–Abigail Van Buren

[Bob]

“A couple of kind words
can not only make a person’s day,
but earn you a friend and supporter for life.
For the rest of the week,
whenever you see someone
you want to judge negatively,
pay them a compliment instead.
See what happens.”

~ Neil Strauss

[MEGOMONSTER]

Under the age of 40? You won't understand.)
My mum used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread butter on bread on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleachbut we didn't get food poisoning.
school sandwiches were wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e. Coli. Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake or at the beach instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.
We all took PE ..... and risked permanent injury with a pair of Dunlop sandshoes instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors that cost as much as a small car. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.
We got the cane for doing something wrong at school, they used to call it discipline yet we all grew up to accept the rules and to honour & respect those older than us.
We had 50 kids in our class and we all learned to read and write, do maths and spell almost all the words needed to write a grammatically correct letter......., FUNNY THAT!!

We all said prayers in school irrespective of our religion, sang the national anthem and no one got upset.Staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention we wish we hadn’t got.
I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations. We weren't!! Oh yeah ... And where was the antibiotics and sterilisation kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!
We played “King of the Hill” on piles of gravel left on vacant building sites and when we got hurt, mum pulled out the 2/6pence bottle of iodine and then we got our backside spanked.
Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10 day dose of antibiotics and then mum calls the lawyer to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.
To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family. How could we possibly have known that?We never needed to get into group therapy and/or anger management classes.
We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!
How did we ever survive?

The person who sent this to me didn’t mention Grandma who sugared the dummies when they dropped on the floor and before she put it back in the wailing mouth; nor the brandy she put in the bottle of milk to stop the baby crying; nor the alternate licking of the ice cream by the toddler and the dog; nor the food served up cold and stale until you ate it; nor having to leave the table if you spoke out of turn or attempting to leave the table without permission; or sitting down to a meal without washing face, hands and doing your hair. Certainly one wouldn’t dream of answering one’s parent back even if they were wrong….that would be a clear demonstration of disrespect particularly in your parent’s home which they allowed you to share. This, incidentally, is from the land of Australia the socalled unsophisticated country.



LOVE TO ALL OF US WHO SHARED THIS ERA.
AND TO ALL WHO DIDN'T, SORRY FOR WHAT YOU MISSED.

life's most simple pleasures are very often the best.

What about riding your bikes through derelict quarries, chasing rabbits and snakes through the local creek, painting a cricket pitch and a tennis court on the road of the court you lived in, climbing all over the cricket practice nets at the local park, spending half a day playing hide and seek in Kmart when it first opened its doors locally, building a BMX track in the empty block in the next street, catching a bus to get to the beach, having a V8 on your p's, when ICE used to be what was in your drink, getting 30 of your mates together for a BBQ and game of soccer at a park for your birthday, when you had to build a car up and not just buy it.

[growler2058]

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.
–Beverly Sills

[Bob]

“Remember,
happiness doesn’t depend upon
who you are
or what you have,
it depends solely upon
what you think.”
~ Dale Carnegie

[MEGOMONSTER]

Beer and Bourbon is proof god loves us and wants us to be happy.
- Benjamin Franklin

[Bob]

“If advertisers spent the same amount of money
on improving their products as they do on advertising
then they wouldn’t have to advertise them.

~ Will Rogers

[Avo]

Internet is not overrated,this phone is to small to type it crapola