Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot…
…who calls you back when you hang up on him…
…who will stay awake just to watch you sleep…
…wait for the guy who kisses your forehead…
…who wants to show you off to the world when you are in your sweats…
…who holds your hand in front of his friends…
…wait for the one who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares about you and how lucky he is to have you…
…wait for the one who turns to his friends and says, “…that’s her”…

~Death~

what a wonderful way to explain it!!!!!

A sick man turned to his doctor,
as he was preparing to leave the examination room and said,
“doctor, i am afraid to die.
Tell me what lies on the other side.”very quietly, the doctor said, “i don’t know.”

“you don’t know?
You, a Christian man, do not know what is on the other side?”

the doctor was holding the handle of the door;
on the other side came a sound of scratching and whining,
and as he opened the door,
a dog sprang into the room
and leaped on him with an eager show of gladness.

Turning to the patient, the doctor said,
“did you notice my dog?
He’s never been in this room before.
He didn’t know what was inside.
He knew nothing except that his master was here,
and when the door opened, he sprang in without fear.
I know little of what is on the other side of death,
but i do know one thing…

I know my Master is there and that is enough.”

When you were 8 years old, your mom handed you an ice cream. You thanked her by dripping it all over your lap.

When you were 9 years old, she paid for piano lessons. You thanked her by never even bothering to practice.

When you were 10 years old she drove you all day, from soccer to football to one birthday party after another. You thanked her by jumping out of the car and never looking back.

When you were 11 years old, she took you and your friends to the movies. You thanked her by asking to sit in a different row.

When you were 12 years old, she warned you not to watch certain TV shows. You thanked her by waiting until she left the house.

When you were 13, she suggested a haircut that was becoming. You thanked her by telling her she had no taste.

When you were 14, she paid for a month away at summer camp. You thanked her by forgetting to write a single letter.

When you were 15, she came home from work, looking for a hug. You thanked her by having your bedroom door locked.

When you were 16, she taught you how to drive her car. You thanked her by taking it every chance you could.

When you were 17, she was expecting an important call. You thanked her by being on the phone all night.

When you were 18, she cried at your high school graduation. You thanked her by staying out partying until dawn.

When you were 19, she paid for your college tuition, drove you to campus carried your bags. You thanked her by saying good-bye outside the dorm so you wouldn’t be embarrassed in front of your friends.

When you were 25, she helped to pay for your wedding, and she cried and told you how deeply she loved you. You thanked her by moving halfway across the country.

When you were 50, she fell ill and needed you to take care of her. You thanked her by reading about the burden parents become to their children.

And then, one day, she quietly died. And everything you never did came crashing down like thunder on YOUR HEART…

“If you love your mom, thank her deeply. Don’t take for granted what she does for you because she’s doing it out of love and out of the kindness of her heart. In return, she deserves your undying love and devotion. Don’t wait another minute, thank her now and tell her how much you love her. Tomorrow may be too late.”

it was a rainy day
and i just got to thinking
of how our lives had changed
with all the years

this room was once alive
with all your laughter
and when i heard the silence
i called you right away
now please don’t say a word
hear what i say

oh, love me like the first time again
let’s pretend its never gonna end
for one last night
just hold me in the way you used to do
you know, love me like the first time and go

is it my imagination, are you lonely?
well i’m sorry but i thought you sounded sad
i’m not trying to start a fire again please listen
if you’re free at all tomorrow the next day who knows when
for the last time can we say goodbye as friends?

Click here to listen to this song…

As you grow up, you will learn that even the one person that wasn’t supposed to ever let you down probably will. You will have your heart broken probably more than once and it’s harder every time. You’ll break hearts too, so remember how it felt when yours was broken. You’ll fight with your best friend. You’ll blame a new love for things an old one did. You’ll cry because time is passing too fast, and you’ll eventually lose someone you love. So take too many pictures, laugh too much, and love like you’ve never been hurt because every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you’ll never get back. Don’t be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin.

Two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey, they had an argument; and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: today my best friend slapped me in the face.

They kept on walking, until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him.

After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: “today my best friend saved my life.”

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “after i hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?”

The friend replied “when someone hurts us we should write it down in sand, where winds of forgiveness can erase it away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your benefits in stone. They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life to forget them.

When we meet the right person to love when we’re at the right place at the right time, that’s chance. When you meet someone you’re attracted to, that’s not a choice. That’s chance. Being caught up in a moment (and there’s a lot of couples who get together because of this) is not a choice. That’s also a chance.

The difference is what happens afterwards. When will you take that infatuation, that crush, that mind-blowing attraction to the next level? That’s when all sanity goes back, you sit down and contemplate whether you want to make this into a concrete relationship or just a fling.

If you decide to love a person, even with his faults, that’s not a chance. That’s choice. When you choose to be with a person, no matter what, that’s choice. Even if you know there are many people out there who are more attractive, smarter, and richer than your mate, and yet, you decide to love your mate just the same, that’s choice. Infatuation, crushes, attraction comes to us by chance. But true love that lasts is truly a choice.

A choice that we make.

Regarding soul mates, there’s a beautiful movie quote that I believe is so true about this:

“Fate brings you together, but it’s still up to you to make it happen.”

I do believe that soul mates do exist. That there is truly someone made for you. But it’s still up to you to make the choice if you’re going to do something about it or not. We may meet our soul mates by chance, but loving and staying with our soul mates is still a matter of choice we have to make.

We came to the world not by finding someone perfect to love. BUT to learn how to love an imperfect person perfectly…”

Beautiful ain’t it? Doesn’t it gives us something to ponder about? Whether we end up with our present loves through love, chance or choice? If it was the right chance, was it the right choice to make?