[ddots-l] 3900 saturdays
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- Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:45:15 -0600
sorry didn't paste for some reason. lets try this again.
hello all, I recieved this email out of the blue. made me stop and think.
hopefully it will do the same for you. may you all be blest.
and for the ham who sent this to me,
73s from kb9tzr
'3900 Saturdays'
The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet
solitude that comes with being the first
to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either
way, the first few hours of a Saturday
morning are most enjoyable.
A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the garage with a steaming cup of
coffee in one hand and the morning paper
in the other. What began as a typical Saturday morning turned into one of those
Lessons that life seems to hand you
from time to time. Let me tell you about it:
I turned the dial up into the phone portion of the band on my ham radio in
order to listen to a Saturday morning
swap net. Along the way, I came across an older sounding chap, with a
tremendous signal and a golden voice. You know the
kind, he sounded like he should be in the broadcasting business. He was telling
whom-ever he was talking with something
about 'a thousand marbles..' I was intrigued and stopped to listen to what he
had to say....
' Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy with your job. I'm sure they pay
you well but it's a shame you have to
be away from home and your family so much. Hard to believe a young fellow
should have to work sixty or seventy hours a
week to make ends meet. It's too bad you missed your daughter's 'dance recital'
he continued. 'Let me tell you
something that has helped me keep my own priorities.' And that's when he began
to explain his theory of a 'thousand
marbles.'
'You see, I sat down one day and did a little arithmetic. The average person
lives about seventy-five years. I
know, some live more and some live less, but on average, folks live about
seventy-five years.
'Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I came up with 3900, which is the
number of Saturdays that the average
person has in their entire lifetime. Now, stick with me, Tom, I'm getting to
the important part.
It took me until I was fifty-five years old to think about all this in any
detail', he went on, 'and by that time I
had lived through over twenty-eight hundred Saturdays.' 'I got to thinking that
if I lived to be seventy-five, I only
had about a thousand of them left to enjoy. So I went to a toy store and bought
every single marble they had. I ended
up having to visit three toy stores to round up 1000 marbles I took them home
and put them inside a large, clear plastic
container right here in the shack next to my gear.'
'Every Saturday since then, I have taken one marble out and thrown it away. I
found that by watching the marbles
diminish, I focused more on the really important things in life.
There's nothing like watching your time here on this earth run out to help get
your priorities straight .'
'Now let me tell you one last thing before I sign-off with you and take my
lovely wife out for breakfast. This
morning, I took the very last marble out of the container. I figure that if I
make it until next Saturday then I have
been given a little extra time.. And the one thing we can all use is a little
more time.'
'It was nice to meet you Tom, I hope you spend more time with your family, and
I hope to meet you again here on the
band. This is a 75 Year old Man, K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!'
You could have heard a pin drop on the band when this fellow signed off. I
guess he gave us all a lot to think
about. I had planned to work on the antenna that morning, and then I was going
to meet up with a few hams to work on the
next club newsletter.
Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up with a kiss. 'C'mon honey, I'm
taking you and the kids to breakfast.'
'What brought this on?' she asked with a smile. 'Oh, nothing special, it's just
been a long time since we spent a
Saturday together with the kids. And hey, can we stop at a toy store while
we're out? I need to buy some marbles.
A friend sent this to me, so I to you, my friend.
And so, as one smart bear once said.....'If you live to be a hundred, I want to
live to be a hundred minus one day,
so I never have to live without you.' - Winnie the Pooh.
Pass this on to all of your FRIENDS, even if it means sending it to the person
that sent it to you.
And if you receive this e-mail many times from many different people, it only
means that you have many FRIENDS.
And if you get it but once, do not be discouraged for you will know that you
have at least one good friend...
And that would be ME.
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