Thanks for posting the "wake up call," Nicolaas. Ya sure got ME thinking! Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Nicolaas Marais Sent: Thursday, April 16, 1998 12:23 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Good Advice! This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0056_01BD6919.5F499A80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I think this was written for us! ----------------------------------------- Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each morning with = $86,400.00! It carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to = keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the = amount you had failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out = every cent of course! Well, everyone has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes = off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good = purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it = opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. = If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no = going back.=20 There is no drawing against the "tomorrow". You must live in the present = on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in = health, happiness, and success! The clock is running. Make the most of = today! To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who fails a grade; To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who has given birth to a = premature baby; To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask an editor of a weekly newspaper; To realize the value of ONE DAY, ask a daily wage laborer who has kids = to feed; To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to = meet; To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who has missed the = train; To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who has avoided an = accident; To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who has won a = silver medal in the Olympics. Treasure every moment you have! And treasure it more because you shared = it with someone special; special enough to have your time...and = remember, time waits for no one! Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift, that's why = they call it the present! -------------------------------------------------------- Greetings! Keep praying for a cure! Nicolaas Marais 46,4 [log in to unmask] ------=_NextPart_000_0056_01BD6919.5F499A80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=3DGENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> <P>I think this was written for us! </P> <P>----------------------------------------- </P> <P>Imagine there is a bank which credits your account each morning with=20 $86,400.00! It carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to = keep no=20 cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount you = had=20 failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent of = course!=20 Well, everyone has such a bank. Its name is TIME.</P> <P>Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it = writes off,=20 as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It = carries=20 over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account = for=20 you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the = day's=20 deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. </P> <P>There is no drawing against the "tomorrow". You must live = in the=20 present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost = in=20 health, happiness, and success! The clock is running. Make the most of=20 today!</P> <P>To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who fails a = grade;</P> <P>To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who has given birth = to a=20 premature baby;</P> <P>To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask an editor of a weekly = newspaper;</P> <P>To realize the value of ONE DAY, ask a daily wage laborer who has = kids to=20 feed;</P> <P>To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to = meet;</P> <P>To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who has missed the=20 train;</P> <P>To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask a person who has avoided an=20 accident;</P> <P>To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who has won a = silver=20 medal in the Olympics.</P> <P>Treasure every moment you have! And treasure it more because you = shared it=20 with someone special; special enough to have your time...and remember, = time=20 waits for no one!</P> <P>Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, Today is a gift, that's = why they=20 call it the present!</P> <P>--------------------------------------------------------</P> <P>Greetings!</P> <P>Keep praying for a cure!</P> <P>Nicolaas Marais 46,4</P> <P><A = href=3D"mailto:[log in to unmask]">[log in to unmask]</A></P> <P> </P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0056_01BD6919.5F499A80--