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There are times when we are timid and shy about expressing the
love we feel. For fear of embarrassing the other person, or ourselves,
we hesitate to say the actual words "I love you." So we try to
communicate the idea in other words. We say 'take care' or 'don't
drive too fast' or 'be good.' But really, these are just other
ways of saying 'I love you,' 'you are important to me,' 'I care what
happens to you,' 'I don't want you to get hurt.'
We are sometimes very strange people. The only thing we want to
say,and the one thing that we should say, is the one thing we don't
say.And yet, because the feeling is so real, and the need to say it
is so strong, we are driven to use other words and signs to say what we
really mean. And many times the meaning never gets communicated
at all and the other person is left feeling unloved and unwanted.
Therefore,we have to LISTEN FOR LOVE in the words that people are saying to
us.sometimes the explicit words are necessary, but more often, the manner of
saying things is even more important. A joyous insult carries more affection
and love within the sentiments which are expressed insincerely. An impulsive
hug says I LOVE YOU even though the words might be saying very different.
Any expression of a person's concern for another says I love you. Sometimes
the expression is clumsy, sometimes even cruel.Sometimes we must look and
listen very intently for the love that contains. But it is often there,
beneath the surface.
A mother may nag her son constantly about his grades or cleaning
his room. The son may hear only the nagging, but if he listens
carefully, he will hear the love underneath the nagging. His mother
wants him to do well, to be successful. Her concern and love
for her son unfortunately emerge in her nagging. But it is love all
the same.
A daughter comes home late, way past her curfew, and her father
confronts her with angry words. The daughter may hear only the anger, but
if she listens carefully, she will hear the love under the anger. "I was
worried about you," the father is saying. "Because I care about you and I
love you. You are important to me." We say I love you in many ways - with
birthday gifts, and little notes, with smiles and sometimes with tears.
Sometimes we show our love by just keeping quiet and not saying a word, at
other times by speaking out, even brusquely. We show our love sometimes by
impulsiveness. Many times we have to show our love by forgiving someone
who has not listened to the love we have tried to express.
The problem is listening for love is that we don't always understand the
language of love which the other person is using. A girl may use tears or
emotions to say what she wants to say, and her boyfriend may not understand
her because he expects her to be talking his language.
Thus, we have to force ourselves to really listen for love. The
problem with our world is that people rarely listen to each other.
They hear the words, but they don't listen to the actions that company
the words or the expression on the face. Or people listen only for
rejection or misunderstanding. They do not see the love that is
there just beneath the surface, even if the words are angry. We have to
listen for love in those around us. If we listen intently we will discover
that we are a lot more loved than we realize. Listen for
love and we will find that the world is a very loving place, after
all.
LOVE is a happy feeling.
It makes us laugh.
It makes us sing.
It makes us sad.
It makes us cry.
It makes us seek the reason why.
It makes us take.
It makes us give.
Above all else it makes us LIVE.
It is not the presence or absence of people that makes the
difference because a person need not be lonely even if he is
alone.
Sometimes it is good to be alone. But that does not make us
lonely. It is not a matter of being present WITH someone. It is a matter of
being present TO someone.
Seize the day and have no regrets. Most importantly, stay close
to your friends and family, for they have helped make you the person
that you are today and are what it's all about anyway.
1. The venom in a Daddy Long-Legs spider is more poisonous than a
Black Widow's or a Brown Recluse, but they cannot bite humans because their
jaws won't open wide enough.
2. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
3. On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.
4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
5. If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but
more like 4950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.
6. Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
7. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
8. Humans and Dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
9. The pop you get when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas
bursting.
10. 101 Dalmatians and Peter Pan (Wendy) are the only two Disney cartoon
features with both parents who are present and don't die throughout the movie.
11. The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely
solid.
12. There's no Betty Rubble in Flintstones Chewable Vitamins.
13. It's impossible to get water out of a rimless tire.
14. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
15. Did you know that you are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork
than by a poisonous spider?
16. In Minnesota it is illegal to cross state lines with a duck on your head.
17. In Indiana it is illegal to ride public transportation for at least 30
minutes after eating garlic.
18. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed
people do.
19. A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
20. Polar bears are left-handed.
21. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to
death.
22. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
23. The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. (YUK!)
24. A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
25. The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896.
26. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
27. A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.
28. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood
donors.
29. Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wearpants.
30. More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane
crashes.
31. Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
32. Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump."
33. Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
34. If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.
35. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
36. The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" usesevery
letter in the English language.
37. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that theystart
with.
38. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able toremember
the word you want.
39. TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letterson only
one row of the keyboard.
40. If the population of China walked past you in single file, the
line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.
41. A snail can sleep for 3 years.
42. American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in first-class.
43. China has more English speakers than the United States.
44. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
45. Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a population of
1,000 and a size 108.7 acres.
46. The longest town name in the world has 167 letters.
47. You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the
world.
48. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
49. The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and it
refers to a distinct part of DNA.
50. No president of the United States was an only child.
51. The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every
five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in
times of war or other emergencies.
52. The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night!
(DOUBLE YUCK!)
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