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In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away
- shing xiong

Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss

"I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry."
- Unknown
 
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I love Dr. Seuss :)

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
Any direction you choose.
You’re on your own. And
you know what you know.
And YOU are the guy who’ll
decide where to go.

-From: Oh, the places you'll go by: Dr. Seuss
 
sumi said:
Here's a thought for the day, everyday. Two days ago, late evening, we had a thunderstorm and as is tradition in our little town with it's outdated electricity infrastructure, the power got knocked out with the first thunder clap. I phoned the electrician, who gave me the number of another new (to me) electrician, who had the misfortune of being on stand-by that night. I phoned him, told him what the problem was and waited. As soon as the rain stopped the power came back on. By this time it was quite late. Since I had the guy's cell phone number I send him a text message to thank him for restoring the power and all but forgot about it, until yesterday afternoon when I finally checked my cell and found a reply from him: "Thank you for your gesture. This does not happen often." A few weeks ago I gave the honey wagon drivers each a box of eggs when they came to pump our septic tank. These guys now hoot and wave every time they drive past me in town. Such a small gesture from me, but it meant so much to them. A few times over the years we phoned the emergency services. Every time I thanked the paramedics for coming out they looked surprised?

I think many of us take these people and services for granted. We complain when the power goes off, phone the electricians, grumble because we have to pay so much for services like getting our septic tank emptied, our garbage removed, etc. Maybe we should make more effort to say "Thank you". Thank our electricians, our bin-men, our honey wagon drivers, our paramedics and our police. These people we ignore until we need them to come clean up our messes and then forget about until we need them again. A simple "Thank you" really means a lot to them. Let's make an effort to appreciate these people more and let them know we do! 
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Nice story and thanks for sharing. We try to pay it forward as much as we can. We live in a rural area outside of the Boulder city limits. We are in an area with a bunch of old timers, we are zoned for Ag and Residential. Well we have cisterns for water and we have to have our water hauled in. Last time we got water delivered it was right after Christmas and we got snow and it was snowy and icy out. Well we called and their message said they were not delivering except to certain areas. Since we have been a good customer they delivered the next day. We gave a $40 tip (the owner delivers to us) and a dozen eggs,we left it on our stoop and secretly watched. He stood there for while looking at the eggs and then took the envelop. Our guess is he didn't even know about the tip until he opened that envelop. Gotta keep our water guys happy as we really rely on them.
 
You reminded me of that my Feedstore story.
I didn't stock up on feed around Christmas and of course the feed store was closed for a couple weeks for holidays, when the new year came they were closed for inventory and I was literally out of every kind of feed ( duck, chick, layer etc)... I couldn't let my birds starve, so I went and knocked on the door... the owner opened it and asked what I needed, even though it was a big problem to let me purchase feed while his computers are set in inventory mode, he let me buy my feed anyway he said he "can't let my critters starve"... I've yet to his kindness but I figure a nice big plate of brownies or something home-baked with my beautiful eggs would probably show him how much I appreciated it...
 

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