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Reply With QuoteThamks for Putting that up Taz. We can all learn something from that.
I just received this in an e-mail and thought I would share it with you all as it really touched me
Slow Dance
This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer in a New York Hospital.
She wants to see how many people get her poem.
It is quite the poem.
It was sent by a medical doctor.
SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done !
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,"Hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
This young girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying wish, she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live their life to the fullest, since she never will.
She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get married and have a family of her own.
Thamks for Putting that up Taz. We can all learn something from that.
Really does mean Live for the day!!! Each one so precious! Thanks Taz
Think I'm gonna cry
Re: Touching
WOW...I don't know what else to say!
Lovely sentiment.
The teenage girl dying of cancer doesn't actually exist – the poem was written by a child psychologist called David L. Weatherford.
Here's the poem on his web site... (Warning: His web site has music on every page that you can't easily turn off!)
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
Just back from seeing the film "Click" - similar idea.
"He's always chasing the pot of gold, but when he gets there, at the end of the day, it's just corn flakes."
They never bloody do....Originally Posted by ducasi
Lovely sentiment.
The teenage girl dying of cancer doesn't actually exist – the poem was written by a child psychologist called David L. Weatherford.
Here's the poem on his web site... (Warning: His web site has music on every page that you can't easily turn off!OK so I am gullable.....................They never bloody do....
But I still think it's a lovely poem even if the story behind it is a hoax
Unfortunately, outside of chain emails, they do – I'd guess thousands (millions?) of children around the world are dying of cancer.They never bloody do....
If this poem does touch you, perhaps you should send a donation to CLIC Sargent or Cancer Research UK.
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
Hiya Taz,
A good poem to post - whatever its origin.
Heart breakingly thought provoking.... thanks
Martin
PS:
On a lighter note.
Thanks for the dances at Breeze - I was doing my usual rushing around to the music... perhaps I should slow down and enjoy the moments - instead of trying to wring every bit of live out of each track.... Perhaps I'd last to 4.30am then!
Hiya Taz,
A good poem to post - whatever its origin.
Heart breakingly thought provoking.... thanks
Martin
!it makes you think and feel good to be alive and kicking.
thanks for the poem.. it was lovely. xx
Uh huh. Why they feel a need to 'package it up' as coming from a dying child I don't know - except for the fact that more people will send it on. But if it's worth reading, then it won't need the package. Anyhow, usual rule of thumb on any chain mail you get from a dying child, or warning that there's a virus about to destroy the known world, or information that MSN is about to start to cost money to use, etc. etc., is that it's a load of cr@p. That doesn't stop it being a nice poem though....OK so I am gullable.....................
But I still think it's a lovely poem even if the story behind it is a hoax
Okie. I was talking about the chain mail stuff. Duncan is right. And just for that, I'll send a donation. Since it's so unusual!Unfortunately, outside of chain emails, they do – I'd guess thousands (millions?) of children around the world are dying of cancer.
If this poem does touch you, perhaps you should send a donation to CLIC Sargent or Cancer Research UK.
*sniff* I knew a kid at my Mum's primary school who was dying from an illness. All the teachers knew. It was hard for them. Whenever they asked them to write a passage about what they wanted to be when they grew up, he would always right something about watching over his family from heaven. It was heartbreaking.
People don't really know how lucky they are. So I don't have it in me to care about whether or not it's a hoax. It's the sentiment that counts.
People don't really know how lucky they are. So I don't have it in me to care about whether or not it's a hoax. It's the sentiment that counts.
.... Funnily enough, that's just what I was about to say ... a few hours too late I guess!!OK so I am gullable.....................
But I still think it's a lovely poem even if the story behind it is a hoax
There seems to be more and more pressure on us to get more and more done, in less and less time, that we simply just lose sight of what's important [rather than urgent].
There's rarely a wrong time to stop and smell the flowers!!
As for the chain letter stuff .... my fave is www.breakthechain.org
... there's a fab debunking of all the usual type of chain letter in there somewhere!!
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