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----- Original Message ----- From: "Bonnie Tully-Adams" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, May 06, 2001 10:44 AM Subject: Re: echoes of 'what if' > Janet, > > If any person - regardless of beauty, talent or age - is struck by illness, > it is tragic. > > Actors use the term 'Magic if' for questions used to put yoursefl > into someone else's shoes or experiences. You ask yourself: what if I > were...then how would I feel, react, etc. > > It is asked in the past, present and future. To ask 'what if' as a > means of finding a strategy is essential. What if I went for a walk ever day. > What if my true calling is something that I have not yet found? What if I > actively pursue ways to balance the sorrows with joys? > > To simply ask 'what if' without a goal seems detrimental because the > possibilities are without end. What if I hadn't become sick? What if I hadn't > dumped that boy in high school? What if I was a foot taller? What if I had > become that job? > > The Magic If helps you make discoveries. The other 'what if' might > keep you from appreciating 'what is'. Life's short for everyone. Seize the > day. Live with passion. > > "what's past is prologue, what to come > In yours and my discharge" Tempest Act2 sci > > > bta > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn