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I started out this year saying that there were no resolutions that I would make this year...that I always failed to keep them and saw no point in them. I just finished reading an email, and whereas
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death. The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.
"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."
"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied waving off the offer. At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.
"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes," the farmer replied proudly.
"I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education my own son will enjoy. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll no doubt grow to be a man we both will be proud of."
And that he did. Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time, graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin. Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill.
His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.
didn't really affect me, it just struck me as interesting, some of the points at the end did. They are things that we have all heard, but I don't think really pay attention to. They are things I have decided to put forth the effort to do this year. So whereas I am not saying that I vow or promise to do these things I am going to try. I know of atleast one person who will be happy about that when they read the list of
Someone once said:
**What goes around comes around.
**Work like you don't need the money.
**Love like you've never been hurt.
**Dance like nobody's watching.
**Sing like nobody's listening.
**Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
So here goes 2006 in all it's glory. All I can say is it better be better than 2005...but I have a feeling already that it will be simply by those keeping me company. They know who they are and they know I appreciate everything they do and all the time we spend together just hanging out, and one knows that they mean the world to me. Chances are if you think that you are one of the people that this applies to - you are, so thank you in advance for all the time we will spend together and fun things we will do...and to the one all the fun and love we will share in 2006!!