Category: Let's talk
I'll start off by saying that this e-mail, which I willl post below, contains some pretty good advice. None of it sounds superstitious to me. I do disagree with some of these words, which I will discuss in a second post.
ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
TWO ... Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.
THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.
FOUR . When you say, 'I love you ,' mean it.
FIVE. When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye.
SIX ... Be engaged at least six months before you get married.
SEVEN.. Believe in love at first sight.
EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
NINE . Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
TEN. . In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.
ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives.
TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.
THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 'Why do you want to know?'
FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
FIFTEEN. Say 'bless you' when you hear someone sneeze.
SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson !
SEV ENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and responsibility for all your actions.
EIGHTEEN.... Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship..
NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone... The caller will hear it in your voice.
TWENTY-ONE. Spend some time alone.
Now, here's the FUN part!
Send this to at least 5 people and your life will improve.
1-4 people: Your life will improve slightly.
5-9 people: Your life will improve to your liking.
9-14 people: You will have at least 5 surprises in the next 3 weeks
15 and above: Your life will improve drastically and everything you ever dreamed of will begin to take shape.
A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
A few things I disagree with are:
1. Saying bless you isn't mandatory. And I think that one should not only say it when another sneezes, but also when they cough, burp, etc. Or, you can say it whenever you feel it is necessary.
2. I don't believe in love at first sight. I think that one must know a person in order to love them
Other than that, I agree with the rest of advice. Especially concerning the three r's and mistakes as well.
The ones I really agree with:
FOUR. When you say, 'I love you ,' mean it.
FIVE. When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye.
SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.
EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
NINE . Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.
SEV ENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and responsibility for all your actions.
EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
TWENTY-ONE. Spend some time alone.
Well, what I really don't agree with is the chain mail element, it's up to me whether I want to send it to 100 people or no one, that disclaimer makes me automatically delete all such emails from my inbox without reading them, even if they may contain good advice.
I also don't think "believing" is something you can control. You can't determine to believe or not believe in love at first sight, either it happens to you or it doesn't, your attitude towards it will not affect how you feel, or don't feel.
Otherwise, sure, it's all good advice, although with introduction of caller ID I can pretty much decide whether to smile, frown or just not pick up the phone when it rings.
I like the advice but hate any email advising me to send it to others. If I like something, I pass it on. If not, I don't. Back on September 7, 2001, I got an email telling me to pass it on. It was similar to this one where the more people you sent it to, the sooner good things would happen. Well I sent it to whatever number of people it said would make good things start happening in four days. Guess what happened in four days...September 11, 2001. Ever since then, I either immediately delete those kinds of emails or read them and decide to pass it along only if it is a joke or funny story I really like and want to share.
Yeah, I received this particular e-mail from my best friend telling me to send it in six minutes and to delete it or an unpleasant surprise would occur. This is the first time I've ever received chain mail.
And poster 4, I totally agree with you about the whole phone deal. Lmaoo!
Oh yes, and as for respecting others, I'll be the judge of who deserves my respect. Respecting everyone doesn't always turn out so great. Respect in one way toward a person could be perceived as disrespect to another person.
Chain mail is very, very annoying. Grrrr.
Yeah, I too hate "pass this on" emails, they are juvenile, a lie, and so old it isn't funny. Using that ploy makes me want to disregard the whole thing.
However, some of this seems to be sort of true, but there too, I hate platitudes posing as truths. For example, how can one know that there's no such thing as love at first sight unless they've experienced it, which makes it true by definition. So how can you say it doesn't exist?
Anyway, thanks for posting this.
Bob
I don't believe in chain Email or texts, so whenever I get either of the above, they're deleted. Voom! I'm not supersticious and don't believe in superstition either.
Jen.
first of all this email is not a superstition. Those are things which are developed through time to explain something which is not understandable. These would include statements such as friday the 13th is horrible or you will have bad luck if a raven lands on your house. Well I've had good luck on many of the dreaded days described in the first ssentence. Other then being big, black, noisy, meating generators of tremendous amounts of runny poop, that particular avian animal means nothing to me.
Here's an interesting superstition. Bananas are bad luck on boats. Ha, you say. What a stupid superstition. After research it appears that during the ripening and rotting processes, this particular fruit generates some kind of noxious gas. In the poorly ventilated boats of old, sailors actually got sick and even died from being around those stinky yellow things.
What do you expect from a fruit, bananas, that doesn't produce sexually. The reason it has three sections is because it is asexual. The only way banana trees can grow is if they are grafted or something.
All the reasons i've listed even convince me more that hating my least favorite fruit is a good thing. Eat away you noisy filthy monkeys!!!! You have my bananas from now until eternity!!!
I digress
ladies and Gentleman, boys and girls, cats and dogs!!!! I've been a computer user since nineteen hundred and 84. This list of so called profundities has been around in various itterations since then. Would that my words were cherished so well and shared so freely. Even better, wish I got paid for them!!!!
Below are the ones I take issue with and why. They're out of order. I mean this in the most loving and kind way. if that's a problem get over it.
SEV ENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and responsibility for all your actions.
Give me a freakin' break. The whole basis of this goes back to poor home training. Courtesy should be practiced and given freely. Respect is earned. The reason we teach and use the former is to be socially acceptable until we see if the latter is possible.
SEVEN.. Believe in love at first sight.
another word for love at first sight is lust. We see someone, we want them and often if we get our desire too soon, there isn't a love at seccond sight.
It is a hell of a lot easier to be in love then to love someone. During the transition from the first to the seccond stage of a relationship usually is often wwhen failure and disolution occurs. Being in love is like fireworks on the 4th of july Loving someone is that warm toasty fire of a winters night.
EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dream. People who don't have dreams don't have much.
and what exactly are they saying here? it's ok to laugh at their relatives, car, clothes, or appearance, but the dream is sacro sanct? How about don't laugh at anyone at any time for any thing period exclamation point. Laughter shared is wonderful. When used as a weapon it is cruel and unfair!!!
FIVE. When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye.
Gee, I'm blind. Therefore since I can't look directly in to your eyes, my apology is suspect?
That's about it. I'm taking my nasty self off to ruin others' days. What do you all think of my thoughts?
Well, one thing that does come to mind is I would rather laugh at someone's dream than seeing some of the people that make it on to American Idol and, seriously, think thay have a singing career, despite sounding so off key I could not be as bad if I tried really really hard, and I am a bad singer to begin with. I'd be doing the and the world a huge favor.
I'm sorry but if I had a blind friend who wanted to become a professional hair stylist or nascar driver I'd laugh at them and tell them to get over it (incidentally there's an old post somewhere about professions unsuitable for the blind, it was quite a hillarious one, but it's in the 2004 2005 pile so we need someone like our friend Rachel to dig it up and sadly she only digs up dating board posts).
Lol Holly and B!
Holly, I totally agree with you on all those points, especially the one about laughing at others. I also agree that love at first sight is lust.