Never To Busy For A Friend

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Never To Busy For A Friend

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Never Too Busy for a friend
One day a teacher asked her students to list the names of the other
students
in the room on two sheets of paper, leaving a space between each
name.

Then she told them to think of the nicest thing they could say
about
each of
their classmates and write it down.

It took the remainder of the class period to finish their
assignment,
and as
the students left the room, each one handed in the papers.

That Saturday, the teacher wrote down the name of each student on a
separate
sheet of paper, and listed what everyone else had said about that
individual.

On Monday she gave each student his or her list.

Before long, the entire class was smiling.

"Really?" she heard whispered. "I never knew that I meant anything
to
anyone!" and, "I didn't know others liked me so much." were most of
the
comments.

No one ever mentioned those papers in class again. She never knew
if
they
discussed them after class with their parents, but it didn't
matter. The
exercise had accomplished its purpose.

The students were happy with themselves and one another. That group
of students moved on. Several years later, one of the students was
killed in
Vietnam and his teacher attended the funeral of that special
student.

She had never seen a serviceman in a military coffin before. He
looked
so
handsome, so mature. The church was packed with his friends.

One by one those who loved him took a last walk by the coffin.

The teacher was the last one to bless the coffin.

As she stood there, one of the soldiers who acted as pallbearer
came up
to
her. "Were you Mark's math teacher?" he asked. She nodded: "yes."

Then he said: "Mark talked about you a lot."

After the funeral, most of Mark's former classmates went together
to a
luncheon. Mark's mother and father were there, obviously waiting to
speak
with his teacher.

"We want to show you something," his father said, taking a wallet
out of
his
pocket. "They found this on Mark when he was killed. We thought you
might
recognize it."

Opening the billfold, he carefully removed two worn pieces of
notebook
paper
that had obviously been taped, folded and refolded many times.

The teacher knew without looking that the papers were the ones on
which
she
had listed all the good things each of Mark's classmates had said
about
him.

"Thank you so much for doing that," Mark's mother said. "As you can
see,
Mark treasured it."

All of Mark's former classmates started to gather around. Charlie
smiled
rather sheepishly and said, "I still have my list. It's in the top
drawer of
my desk at home."

Chuck's wife said, "Chuck asked me to put his in our wedding
album."

"I have mine too," Marilyn said. "It's in my diary."

Then Vicki, another classmate, reached into her purse and showed
her
frazzled list to the group. "I carry this with me at all times,
"Vicki
said
and without batting an eyelash, she continued: "I think we all
saved our
lists."

That's when the teacher finally sat down and cried. She cried for
Mark
and
for all his friends who would never see him again.

The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that
life
will
end one day. And we don't know when that one day will be.

So please, tell the people you love and care for, that they are
special and important.

Tell them, before it is too late...

AND ONE WAY TO ACCOMPLISH THIS IS:

Forward this message on.

If you do not send it, you will have, once again passed up the
wonderful
opportunity to do something nice and beautiful.

If you've received this, it is because someone cares for you and it
means
there is probably at least someone for whom you care.

If you're "too busy" to take those few minutes right now to forward
this
message on, would this be the VERY first time you didn't do that
little
thing that would make a difference in your relationships?

The more people that you send this to, the better you'll be at
reaching
out
to those you care about.

Remember, you reap what you sow, what you put into the lives of
others
comes
back into your own.


~~~

Sorry about this... I'm just a little depressed and felt like posting htis...
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We like you! You are a great Emoticon maker and seem to be a very kind person. What's wrong?
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Nothing's that bad that a pink dancing elephant (or three) can't cure :pink: :pink: :pink:
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Post by jabroni76 »

oh come on.. only two people read this... it's not that long... :P
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Post by Luke »

jabroni76 wrote:oh come on.. only two people read this... it's not that long... :P
I read it when you posted it and it made me want to slit my wrists on account of how little I've done for "the lives of others"...kidding....kinda.

It was good. Thanks for sharing. :)
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Post by Prince Phillip »

God... that was so nice... I don't know what to say. I am going to send this to alot of people right now. For those that don't have e-mail, I will just print it out and mail it to them.

I hope you are feeling better now Jabroni :) .

God... that made me kinda depressed :cry: , I just want to cry... I don't know if it is a true story or not, but it doesn't even matter...

That was so deep...
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