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"Hi handsome are the words" I heard awhile ago." My name is Rose!"

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.

I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being..

She said, 'Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?'

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, 'Of course you may!' and she gave me a giant squeeze..

'Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?' I asked.

She jokingly replied, 'I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids...'

'No seriously,' I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age.

'I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!' she told me.

After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake.

We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this 'time machine' as she shared her wisdom and experience with me..

Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor.

Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, 'I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.'

As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, ' We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing.

There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it!

There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody! Can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change. Have no regrets.

The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets..'

She concluded her speech by courageously singing 'The Rose.'

She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives. At the year's end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those months ago.

One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be.

When you finish reading this, please send this peaceful word of advice to your friends and family, they'll really enjoy it!

These words have been passed along in loving memory of ROSE.

REMEMBER,
GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY.  GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.

We make a Living by what we get. We make a Life by what we give.

G-d promises a safe landing, not a calm passage + will bring you through it.

Share this message with other people. Your miracle is there today + tomorrow ( and if you don't think so....look out your window when you wake in the morning and think about it ) 

'Good friends are like stars..... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there.'



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WHY I LOVED MY  MOM!
Mom and Dad were watching TV  when Mom said, 'I'm tired, and it's getting late. I think I'll go to  bed'.


  She went to the kitchen to make  sandwiches for the next day's lunches.Rinsed out the  popcorn bowls, took meat out of the freezer  for supper the following evening, checked the cereal box levels, filled the  sugar container, put spoons and  bowls on the table and started the coffee pot for brewing the next  morning.She then put some  wet clothes in the dryer, put a load of clothes into the washer , ironed a shirt and secured a  loose button.She picked up  the  game pieces left on the table, put the phone back on the charger and  put the telephone book into the drawer.She watered the plants, emptied a  wastebasket and hung up a towel to dry.



   


                  

                  She yawned and  stretched and headed for the bedroom. She stopped by the desk, wrote a note to  the teacher,counted out some  cash for the field trip, and pulled a text book out from hiding under the  chair

                She  signed a birthday card for a friend, addressed and stamped the envelope and  wrote a quick note for the grocery store. She put both near her  purse.
  







Mom then washed her  face with 3 in 1 cleanser, put on her Night solution & age fighting  moisturizer, brushed and flossed her teeth and filed  her nails.

          







Dad called out, 'I  thought you were going to bed.'

             







I'm on my way,'  she said

           She put some water  into the dog's dish then made sure the doors were  locked and the patio light was off.







       







She looked in on each of the kids and  turned out their bedside lamps and TV's , hung up a shirt,threw some dirty  socks into the hamper, and had a brief conversation with the one up still  doing homework.


In her own room,  she set the alarm ; laid out clothing for the next day, straightened up the  shoe rack. She added three things to her 6 most important things to do list.  She said her prayers, and visualized the accomplishment of her  goals.
          






About that time,  Dad turned off the TV and announced to no one in particular. 'I'm going to  bed'
          






And he did.  without another thought.
      







Anything  extraordinary here? Wonder why women live longer...?
      






'cause we are made  for the long haul....(and we can't die sooner, we still have things to  do!!!!)
            Send  this to five phenomenal women today....they'll love you for it! I just did. Then go to  bed