The 'L I T T L E' Things

As you might remember
the head of a company survived in 9/11 
because his son started kindergarten.

Another fellow was alive because it was 
His turn to bring donuts. 

One woman was late because her
Alarm clock didn't go off in time. 

One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike
Because of an auto accident. 

One of them
Missed his bus.

One spilled food on her clothes and had to take
Time to change. 

One's 
Car wouldn't start. 

One couldn't 
Get a taxi. 

The one that struck me was the man
Who put on a new pair of shoes that morning,
Took the various means to get to work
But before he got there, he developed
A blister on his foot.

He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid.
That is why he is alive today.. 

Now when I am
Stuck in traffic,
Miss an elevator,
Turn back to answer a ringing telephone....
All the little things that annoy me.
I think to myself,

This is exactly where 
God wants me to be 
At this very moment.. 

Next time your morning seems to be
Going wrong,

You can't seem to find the car keys,
You hit every traffic light,
Don't get mad or frustrated; 
It May be just that 
God is at work watching over you. 

May God continue to bless you
With all those annoying little things
And may you remember their possible purpose.

မ်က္ႏွာမ်ား

မ်က္ႏွာဖံုးေတြ ျမင္ရလြန္းလို႕
တစ္ခါတစ္ရံ ေတြ႕တဲ့
မ်က္ႏွာစစ္စစ္ေတြကိုေတာင္
အတုအေယာင္လို႕ ထင္လာမိတယ္။

ျဖစ္မလာေသးတဲ့ အိမ္မက္ေတြ
လက္မခံႏိုင္ေသးတဲ့ အမွန္တရားေတြ
ငါကိုယ္တိုင္ ဖ်က္စီးလဲယူခဲ့တဲ့ အနာဂတ္ေတြ
ေႁမြတစ္ေကာင္လို ဟန္ေဆာင္ေကာင္းတဲ့
ေနာက္ဆံုးပရိယာယ္ေတြ ...

ဒီလိုညတိုင္း ေလထဲမွာ ေမ်ာလြင့္ေနၾက
ငါရဲ ့ ဦးတည္ခ်က္မဲ့ အေတြးနက္နက္ေတြ
မ်က္ႏွာဖံုးတစ္ခုေအာက္ ဖိသိပ္သြပ္သြင္းလိုက္ရတဲ့
ငါ့ရဲ ့ (ရည္ရြယ္ခ်က္မဲ့) ေန႕ရက္ေတြ

ေသခ်ာတာတစ္ခုပဲ ...
ငါဟာ .. ကံၾကမၼာကိုလည္း (ဘယ္တုန္းကမွ)
မယံုၾကည္ခဲ့ဘူး ...။

Express your LOVE when you can ...

One fine day, an old couple around the age of 70, walks into a lawyer’s office. Apparently, they are there to file a divorce. Lawyer was very puzzled, after having a chat with them, he got their story….

This couple had been quarrelling for all their 40 over yrs of marriage nothing ever seems to go right. They hang on because of their children, afraid that it might affect their up-bringing. Now, all their children have already grown up, have their own family, there’s nothing else the old couple have to worry about, all they wanted is to lead their own life free from all these years of unhappiness from their marriage, so both agree on a divorce…. Lawyer was having a hard time trying to get the papers done, because he felt that after 40 yrs of marriage at the age of 70, he couldn’t understand why the old couple would still want a divorce..While they were signing the papers, the wife told the husband..“I really love u, but I really cant carry on anymore, I’m sorry..”“Its o.k., I understand.” said the husband.

Looking at this, the lawyer suggested a dinner together, just 3 of them, wife thought, why not, since they are still going to be friends..At the dining table, there was a silence of awkwardness. The first dish was roasted chicken. Immediately the old man took the drumstick for the old lady.” Take this, it’s your favourite.” Looking at this, the lawyer thought maybe there’s still a chance, but the wife was frowning when she answer.” This is always the problem, you always think so highly of yourself, never thought about how I feel, and don’t you know that I hate drumsticks?”Little did she know that, over the years, the husband have been trying all ways to please her, little did she know that drumsticks was the husband’s favourite. Little did he know that she never thought he understand her at all, little did he know that she hates drumsticks even though all he wants is the best for her.

That night, both of them couldn’t sleep, toss and turn, toss and turn…after hours, the old man couldn’t take it anymore, he knows that he still loves her, and he cant carry on life without her, he wants her back, he wants to tell her, he is sorry, he wanted to tell her “I love you”.He picks up the phone, starting dialling her number….ringing never stops. He never stops dialling. On the other side, she was sad, she couldn’t understand how come after all these years, he still doesn’t understand her at all, she loves him a lot, but she just cant take it anymore….phone’s ringing, she refuses to answer knowing that its him.” What’s the point of talking now that its over…I have ask for it and now I want to keep it this way, if not I will lose face.” She thought…still ringing…she has decided to pull out the cord.

Little did she remember, he had the heart problems.The next day, she received news that he had passed away…she rushed down to his apartment, saw his body, lying on the couch still holding on to the phone…he had a heart attack when he was still trying to get through her phone line. As sad as she could be…she will have to clear his belongings…when she was looking thru the drawers, she saw this insurance policy, dated from the day they got married, with the beneficiary being her… And together in those file, there was this note…“To my dearest wife, by the time you’re reading this, I’m sure I’m no longer around, I bought this policy for you, though the amount is only $100, I hope it will be able to help me continue my promise that i have made when we got married, I might not be around anymore, I want this amount of money to continue taking care of you, just like the way I will if I could have live longer. I want you to know that I will always be around, by your side… I love you”

Tears flowed like river……

“When you love someone, let them know… You never know what will happen the next minute…. Learn to build a life together. Learn to love each other. For who they are… not what they are…”God Bless You".

မႏၱေလးသြား ေတာလား

ေရႊမႏၱေလးရဲ ့ လမ္းမေတြဟာ မီးဟုန္းဟုန္း ေတာက္မယ့္အလား ပူျပင္းလို ့ေနတယ္။ နင္ဂ်ာတစ္ေကာင္လို ဖန္ဆင္းၿပီး ဆိုင္ကယ္ေတာ္ျမတ္ (နန္းဆန္ေသာ ၿမိဳ႕ျဖစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္ နန္းဆန္ဆန္ သံုးႏႈန္းထားျခင္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္) ေပၚမွာ ခြ၍ သြားခ်င္ရာခရီးကို အေသာ့ႏွင္ရပါေတာ့သည္။ မၾကာခဏ (စိတ္ကူးေပါက္မွ) လာတတ္ေသာမီးေၾကာင့္ အဲကြန္း၊ ပန္ကာ မ်ားလည္း အလုပ္လက္မဲ့ ျဖစ္ေနတာၾကာၿပီ။ ျပင္းျပေသာ အပူဒဏ္ကို ေ႐ွာင္ရန္ နည္းလမ္းမ်ားမွာ အဲကြန္း႐ွိေသာ အေအးဆိုင္၊ အင္တာနက္ဆိုင္ ႏွင့္ ႐ုပ္႐ွင္႐ုံမ်ားတြင္ အခ်ိန္သြားျဖဳန္းျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ အေအးေသာက္ဖန္မ်ား၍ လည္ေခ်ာင္းေရာင္ရမ္းျခင္းသည္လမ္း ေဘးထြက္ဆိုးက်ဳိး တစ္ခုပင္ျဖစ္သည္။
မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕​၏ မီးပိြဳင့္မ်ားသည္ ဘာသိဘာသာႏိုင္လွသည္။ မၾကာခဏဆိုသလိုပင္ ဇိ၀အသက္ကင္းမဲ့ကာ ေရႊဆိုင္ကယ္ေတာ္မ်ားကလည္း ကိုယ့္ဥပေဒကိုယ္ ျပဌာန္းကာ ျဖတ္သန္းၾကေပသည္။ ေသခ်ာတာတစ္ခုက မႏၱေလးမွာ ဆိုင္ကယ္စီးတတ္လွ်င္ တစ္ကမာၻလံုး ပတ္ႏိုင္ေလာက္၏။ ထူးထူးျခားျခား သတိထားမိတာ တစ္ခုကေတာ့ အစားအေသာက္မ်ား လက္ရာေကာင္းမြန္ျခင္းႏွင့္ ေစ်းသက္သာျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ ၾကံရည္တစ္ခြက္ ၁၀၀ ဆိုေတာ့ ေတာ္ေတာ္ေလး သေဘာက်မိသသည္။ ေအာက္ေစ်းလိုက္ေသာ (မႏၱေလးအသံုးအႏႈန္း) ေရႊမႏၱေလးသားမ်ားအတြက္ အဆင္ေျပလွသည္။ ဘယ္လိုပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ လက္ရာေကာင္းမြန္ေသာ အစားအစာမ်ားကို သင့္တင့္ေသာႏႈန္းထားျဖင့္ စားေသာက္ႏိုင္ေသာ မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕ျဖစ္ပါသည္။
ညေနခင္း ေတာင္တမန္းအင္းကိုအသြား ဧရာ၀တီျမစ္႐ိုးတစ္ေလွ်ာက္ ဆည္းဆာအလွနဲ႕ ပနံတင့္ေနခဲ့တယ္။ တစ္ျဖည္းျဖည္း တိမ္ေကာလာတဲ့ မိခင္ဧရာ၀တီျမစ္ႀကီးရဲ႕ ၀ိုးတ၀ါး အနာဂတ္ကို ေတြးၾကည့္မိေတာ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ့ရင္ေတြ တင္းက်ပ္လာခဲ့တယ္။ ထိန္းသိမ္းမႈအားနည္းတဲ့ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို့ ပတ္၀န္းက်င္၊ တစ္ခ်ိန္မွာ ဘုရားစူးရွိခဲ့ပါတယ္လို႕ ေျပာယူရမယ့္ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို့ရဲ႕ သယံဇာတ အရင္းအျမစ္ေတြ ... ကၽြန္ေတာ့ရဲ႕ လူၿဗိန္းဦးေႏွာက္နဲ႕ ပူေလာင္ေနတဲ့ရင္ .. ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေလ .. သက္ျပင္း႐ွည္႐ွည္တစ္ခုကိုပဲ ခ်မိေတာ့တယ္။
သူရဲေကာင္းဆန္ဆန္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္မ်ဳိးနဲ႕ ျပင္ဦးလြင္ၿမိဳ႕ကို မနက္ခပ္ေစာေစာ တက္ဖို႕ႀကိဳးစားခဲ့ၾကသည္။ စပ္ဖ်င္းဖ်င္းေလပူမ်ားက ခရီးစဥ္တစ္ေလွ်ာက္ ေတြ႕သမွ် အရာတိုင္းလို ႏြမ္းလွ်သြားေစသည္။ ေတာင္တက္လမ္းတစ္ေလွ်ာက္ ယက္ကန္ကန္နဲ႕ ေတာင္ေပၚၿမိဳ႕ေလးသို႕ အေရာက္သြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ၿမိဳ႕၀င္တယ္ဆိုရင္ပဲ ေအးျမတဲ့ေလေအးေလးေတြက စတင္မိတ္ဆက္ပါေတာ့တယ္။ စိတ္ေတြၾကည္လင္ ေပါ့ပါးသြားေစတယ္။ မေရာက္မျဖစ္ ကန္ေတာ္ႀကီးကိုလည္း အေရာက္သြားခဲ့ေသးတယ္။ ဧပရယ္လဆိုေတာ့ ပန္းေတြက မ်ားမ်ားစားစား မပြင့္လွဘူး။ ဘယ္လိုပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ကန္ေတာ္ႀကီးကေတာ့ သူ႕ရဲ႕ စံကို ထိန္းသိမ္းထားတုန္းပဲ။ ရႊံ႕ႏြံေတာမွာ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ခဲ့တယ္။ မျမင္တာၾကာၿပီျဖစ္တဲ့ ယူကလစ္ပင္ေတြေအာက္ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ခဲ့တယ္။ သစ္ပင္ႀကီးေတြကို ရွင္သန္ခြင့္ေပးထားလို႕ စိတ္ခ်မ္းသာရတယ္။ သဘာ၀ရဲ႕ အလွက တန္ဖိုးအရွိဆံုးပဲ။
သတိထားခဲ့မိတာက ျပင္ဦးလြင္မွာ ေဘာဒါေတြေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား ဖြင့္ထားတာကိုေတြ႕ ခဲ့ရတယ္။ ရန္ကုန္ထက္စာရင္ ကုန္က်စရိတ္သက္သာတာရယ္၊ ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ ပိုၿပီးဆိတ္ၿငိမ္တာရယ္၊ ရာသီဥတုေကာင္းမြန္တာ ရယ္ေၾကာင့္ မိဘအမ်ားစုက သေဘာက်က်တယ္လို႕ ဆိုပါတယ္။ ပညာေရးအတြက္ေကာင္းမြန္ေပမယ့္ အခ်ိန္တိုင္း စာ၊စာ၊စာ ျဖစ္ေနရတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားေလးေတြကိုေတာ့ သနားမိတယ္။ ညေနေစာင္း ျပင္ဦးလြင္ၿမိဳ႕ အျပင္ဘက္ ဒီဇင္ဘာစားေသာက္ဆိုင္မွာ သြားစားျဖစ္တယ္။ အလြန္ဆိတ္ညံၿပီး သက္ေတာင့္သက္သာရွိတဲ့ ဆိုင္ေလးပါပဲ။ အျပန္ေတာ့ ေအးစက္လြန္းတဲ့ ျပင္ဦးလြင္ညကို ဆိုင္ကယ္စီးရင္း ေတြ႕ၾကံဳခဲ့ရတယ္။ ပင္လယ္ျပင္မ်က္ႏွာအထက္ ေပ ၃၅၀၀ ေက်ာ္မွာရွိတဲ့ ေတာင္ေပၚၿမိဳ႕ေလးရဲ႕ လြမ္းေမာဖြယ္ညေလးနဲ႕အတူ ကၽြန္ေတာ့ရဲ႕ ေမြးရပ္ေျမ ျမစ္ႀကီးနားၿမိဳ႕ေလးကိုလည္း လြမ္းေနမိေတာ့တယ္။
အျပန္ခရီးမွာေတာ့ မ၀ယ္မျဖစ္ ေဒသထြက္၀ိုင္နဲ႕ စေတာ္ဘယ္ရီယိုေတြ ၀ယ္လာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ေတာင္ဆင္းလမ္းေတြကေတာ့ လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ ၁၀ ႏွစ္ (ကၽြန္ေတာ္ ေနာက္ဆံုးေရာက္ခဲ့တဲ့အခ်ိန္) ထက္စာရင္ အလြန္ေကာင္းသြားခဲ့ပါၿပီ။ ၂၁ မိုင္မွာခဏနားရင္း ေတာင္ေပၚၿမိဳ႕ေလးကိုလည္း ႏႈတ္ဆက္ခဲ့တယ္။ ေနာင္ ... ဘယ္အခ်ိန္မွ ျပန္ေရာက္မွာလဲ ..မသိ။
မႏၱေလးကအျပန္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္လမ္းမႀကီးက ေျဖာင့္ျဖဴးလို႕ ။ သီတင္ကၽြတ္ညမ်ားလို ထိန္ထိန္သာေနတဲ့ မီးေရာင္က လမ္းမႀကီးတစ္ေလွ်ာက္။ ထံုးစံအတိုင္း တပ္ကုန္းက Pioneer restaurant မွာရပ္နားပါတယ္။ ကမာၻေပၚမွာ အညစ္ပတ္ဆံုးဆိုင္ပဲျဖစ္မယ္ ထင္ပါတယ္။ April 10 မနက္ေစာေစာ ရန္ကုန္ကို ျပန္ေရာက္ပါတယ္။ မႏၱေလးရဲ႕ အေငြ႕အသက္ေတြက ကၽြန္ေတာ့စိတ္ကို ရသမ်ဳိးစံုေပးႏိုင္သလို အျပင္ပိုင္းေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြလည္း ေပးပါတယ္။ ဥပမာ - လည္းေခ်ာင္းနာျခင္း၊ အသားမည္းျခင္း။ ဘယ္လိုပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈအေမြအႏွစ္ေတြနဲ႕ ျပည့္ႏွက္ေနတဲ့ ဂုဏ္ယူစရာ ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕ ရဲ႕ မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕ေလးကို ဒီထက္ပိုၿပီး လွပလာေစခ်င္တာ၊ တိုးတက္လာေစခ်င္တာ ကၽြန္ေတာ့ရင္ထဲက စစ္မွန္တဲ့ ေတာင္းဆုေလးတစ္ခုပါ။

God has his own plans !

The man slowly looked up. This was a woman clearly accustomed to the finer things of life. Her coat was new. She looked like she had never missed a meal in her life. His first thought was that she wanted to make fun of him, like so many others had done before.
"Leave me alone," he growled... To his amazement, the woman continued standing. She was smiling -- her even white teeth displayed in dazzling rows.
"Are you hungry?" she asked.
"No," he answered sarcastically. "I've just come from dining with the president..Now go away."
The woman's smile became even broader.
Suddenly the man felt a gentle hand under his arm. "What are you doing, lady?" the man asked angrily. "I said to leave me alone.
Just then a policeman came up. "Is there any problem, ma'am?" he asked..
"No problem here, officer," the woman answered. "I'm just trying to get this man to his feet. Will you help me?"
The officer scratched his head. "That's old Jack. He's been a fixture around here for a couple of years. What do you want with him?"
"See that cafeteria over there?" she asked. "I'm going to get him something to eat and get him out of the cold for awhile."
"Are you crazy, lady?" the homeless man resisted. "I don't want to go in there!" Then he felt strong hands grab his other arm and lift him up.
"Let me go, officer. I didn't do anything.."
"This is a good deal for you, Jack," the officer answered. "Don't blow it."
Finally, and with some difficulty, the woman and the police officer got Jack into the cafeteria and sat him at a table in a remote corner. It was the middle of the morning, so most of the breakfast crowd had already left and the lunch bunch had not yet arrived.
The manager strode across the cafeteria and stood by his table. "What's going on here, officer?" he asked."What is all this, is this man in trouble?"
"This lady brought this man in here to be fed," the policeman answered.
"Not in here!" the manager replied angrily. "Having a person like that here is bad for business."
Old Jack smiled a toothless grin. "See, lady. I told you so. Now if you'll let me go. I didn't want to come here in the first place"
The woman turned to the cafeteria manager and smiled. "Sir, are you familiar with Eddy and Associates, the banking firm down the street?"
"Of course I am," the manager answered impatiently. "They hold their weekly meetings in one of my banquet rooms."
"And do you make a goodly amount of money providing food at these weekly meetings?"
"What business is that of yours?"
"I, sir, am Penelope Eddy, president and CEO of the company."
"Oh.."
The woman smiled again.. "I thought that might make a difference."
She glanced at the cop who was busy stifling a laugh. "Would you like to join us in a cup of coffee and a meal, officer?"
"No thanks, ma'am," the officer replied. "I'm on duty."
"Then, perhaps, a cup of coffee to go?"
"Yes, ma'am. That would be very nice."
The cafeteria manager turned on his heel. "I'll get your coffee for you right away, officer."
The officer watched him walk away. "You certainly put him in his place," he said.
"That was not my intent... Believe it or not, I have a reason for all this."
She sat down at the table across from her amazed dinner guest. She stared at him intently.
"Jack, do you remember me?"
Old Jack searched her face with his old, rheumy eyes. "I think so I mean you do look familiar."
"I'm a little older perhaps," she said. "Maybe I've even filled out more than in my younger days when you worked here, and I came through that very door, cold and hungry."
"Ma'am?" the officer said questioningly. He couldn't believe that such a magnificently turned out woman could ever have been hungry.
"I was just out of college," the woman began. "I had come to the city looking for a job, but I couldn't find anything. Finally I was down to my last few cents and had been kicked out of my apartment.. I walked the streets for days. It was February and I was cold and nearly starving. I saw this place and walked in on the off chance that I could get something to eat."
Jack lit up with a smile. "Now I remember," he said.. "I was behind the serving counter. You came up and asked me if you could work for something to eat. I said that it was against company policy."
"I know," the woman continued. "Then you made me the biggest roast beef sandwich that I had ever seen, gave me a cup of coffee, and told me to go over to a corner table and enjoy it. I was afraid that you would get into trouble. Then, when I looked over and saw you put the price of my food in the cash register, I knew then that everything would be all right."
"So you started your own business?" Old Jack said.
"I got a job that very afternoon. I worked my way up. Eventually I started my own business that, with the help of God, prospered.." She opened her purse and pulled out a business card. "When you are finished here, I want you to pay a visit to a Mr. Lyons. He's the personnel director of my company. I'll go talk to him now and I'm certain he'll find something for you to do around the office."
She smiled. "I think he might even find the funds to give you a little advance so that you can buy some clothes and get a place to live until you get on your feet. If you ever need anything, my door is always open to you."
There were tears in the old man's eyes. "How can I ever thank you?" he asked.
"Don't thank me," the woman answered. "To God goes the glory. He led me to you."
Outside the cafeteria, the officer and the woman paused at the entrance before going their separate ways.. "Thank you for all your help, officer," she said.
"On the contrary, Ms. Eddy," he answered. "Thank you. I saw a miracle today, something that I will never forget. And..And thank you for the coffee."
Have a Wonderful Day. May God Bless You Always and don't forget that when you "cast your bread upon the waters," you never know how it will be returned to you. God is so big He can cover the whole world with his Love and so small He can curl up inside your heart.
When God leads you to the edge of the cliff, trust Him fully and let go. Only 1 of 2 things will happen, either He'll catch you when you fall, or He'll teach you how to fly! The power of one sentence! God is going to shift things around for you today and let things work in your favor.

God does EXIST !

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: 'I don't believe that God exists.'
'Why do you say that?' asked the customer. 'Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children?
If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.' The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop.
Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber:'You know what? Barbers do not exist.' 'How can you say that?' asked the surprised barber.. 'I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!' 'No!' the customer exclaimed. 'Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside.'
'Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me.' 'Exactly!' affirmed the customer. 'That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world.'

Gimme some more time?

A woman came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find her 5-year old son waiting for her at the door.

SON: 'Mummy, may I ask you a question?'
MUM: 'Yeah sure, what it is?' replied the woman.
SON: 'Mummy, how much do you make an hour?'
MUM: 'That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?' the woman said angrily. SON: 'I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?'
MUM: 'If you must know, I make R 50 an hour.'
SON: 'Oh,' the little boy replied, with his head down.
SON: 'Mummy, may I please borrow R25?'

The mother was furious, 'If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I don't work hard everyday for such childish frivolities. The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door.

The woman sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money? After about an hour or so, the woman had calmed down , and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that R25.00 and she really didn't ask for money very often.The woman went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.

'Are you asleep, son?' She asked.
'No Mummy, I'm awake,' replied the boy.
'I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier' said the woman. 'It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the R25 you asked for.'
The little boy sat straight up, smiling. 'Oh, thank you Mummy!' he yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills.

The woman saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his mother. 'Why do you want more money if you already have some?' the mother grumbled.
'Because I didn't have enough, but now I do,' the little boy replied. 'Mummy, I have R50 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.'

The mother was crushed. She put his arms around her little son, and she begged for his forgiveness.

It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts. Do remember to share that R50 worth of your time with someone you love.

If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a matter of hours. But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.