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Want to be happy? Have True and Loyal Friends

My BFF sent this very inspiring msg through the email which I believe was forwarded as well to her.. Sixty plus and Going Strong (Translated from the original in Chinese) There are 1000-year old trees in the mountain, but not many 100 year-old people………… At the most, you live until 100 years old (only 1 in 100,000). If you live until 90, you only have 30 years …….. If you live until 80, you only have 20 years. Because you don’t have many years to live, and you can’t take along things when you go, you don’t have to be too thrifty……. Spend the money that should be spent, enjoy what should be enjoyed, donate what you are able to donate, but don’t leave all to your children or grandchildren, for you don’t want them to become parasites. Don’t worry about what will happen after you are gone, because when you return to dust, you will feel nothing about praises or criticisms. Don’t worry too much about your children for children will have their own destiny and find their own

To Be Temporarily Stationary

 There's a lot of sense in temporarily not doing anything. This from  famous French writer Marie de Hennezel: When we're not perpetually in action, we have an internal openness to perceiving things that we don't normally possess. A simple example is when we're lying down, relaxing on the grass and just looking at the sky. We are in a state of non-action, and yet we suddenly perceive all sorts of things. We have a new capacity for marvel and contemplation. We see new things. We know that a whole part of our being is dormant when we're constantly in action. There is something very positive in non-action, because our senses are mobilized. We're aware of the sensory. We savor things more. Older people and those who are physically limited and accept their limitations still live well because they're open to a whole different domain. If you do five different things at once, as we often do in our active lives, we pass by so many things. Non-action is