Time Waits for No One - 19/06/08

Interesting and Meaningful story...

Many years ago, i bought a house on the resale market. The previous owners had lived there for the past twenty years. They moved in when they got married. For us, it was the time when my younger son had just been born, and we bought it because we wanted to provide two lively boys with a lawn to run around. When i was cleaning out of the rooms, I found a wedding photograph of the Tsai couple, the previous owners, stacked in a corner of the master bedroom. I contacted them to come and retrieve their photograph.

When we met, i teased them for leaving their precious photograph behind. Mrs tsai smiled back and said:" Its funny, ever since we got it back from the photo studio, it had been placed in that corner. We wanted to put it up over the bed when we have the time, never did we think twenty years would pass by and it would still be there in the corner" At this, we all laughed out loud together. As they left, i still called after them:" this time, remember to hang that on the wall in your new house."

My mother often said to me, " Time waits for no one!" She would tell me:" three years can go by in the blink of an eye. A lifetime could be like three blinks; your life could all be spent with nothing at all save the white hairs to show for it." So i constantly remind myself to cherish the present. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is undecided. Only today is what we have in hand. Tomorrow will have its beginning in today. How we fare tomorrow is bring determined from today. So ask yourself what sort of future you really want.

My eldest brother was an artist. All his peers held their art exhibitions. They also urged him to hold one. Each time he would decline, saying " My paintings are just not good enough! Wait till I can do them better," Once, while i was back Taiwan and his classmates had just held their exhibitions, I urged him:" Big brother, you are their equal. What are you waiting for? Until your are too old?" He said:" relax, I will hold a really great one man show when i reach 70." Alas, my eldest brother died at the age of 66 years. Last november when it would have been his 70th birthday, his old classmates came together and held for him the "Mr Lee Wen Ya Memorial Art Exhibition" It was a great show. But he was no longer around to see it.

The 3 golden rules of "DON'T WAIT"
When u have the need, DON'T WAIT
When u have the vision, DON'T WAIT
When u have the passion, DON'T WAIT

For this simple reason-" Time waits for no one"