Life Lessons

I usually don't post emails I get but I liked this one. I have always liked listening to the seasoned citizens because wisdom can only come from experience.

Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The PlainDealer, Cleveland, Ohio "To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45lessons life taught me.. It is the most-requested columnI've ever written. My odometer rolled over to 90 in August,so here is the column once more:

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone...

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick.Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree todisagree.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than cryingalone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up thepresent.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have noidea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, youshouldn't be in it.

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. Butdon't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautifulor joyful.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make youstronger.

19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. Butthe second one is up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear thefancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wearpurple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words:'In five years, will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive everyone everything.

29. What other people think of you is none of yourbusiness.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it willchange.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one elsedoes.

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not becauseof anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of itnow.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that youloved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waitingeverywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saweveryone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all youneed.

42. The best is yet to come.

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and showup.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still agift."

God and Texas,
Jason Watson