Just came across the blog NIE NIE today via A CUP O JO

Going through her blog right now and reading her posts, viewing her photos.... leaves me choked up.... and makes me think of our family friend CAROL DECKER and what happened to her over a year ago... I cannot express enough how thankful I am for my family and friends and the love I receive from them every single day. Both of these ladies mentioned above have had their lives literally flipped upside down and have had to pretty much start their lives all over again. Can you imagine what it would be like to all of a sudden be blind tomorrow...to loose your hands, loose your feet? That is what happened to Carol last year...please go to her blog and read about her story, along with Stephanie's of Nie Nie.... hopefully after reading about them you will look at life differently. Rather than think of things you don't have you will think of all the things you do have, the simplest and most humblest things. Appreciate the moments with family, children, friends, co-workers etc. Treat each moment with others like it could be your last...and LASTLY...... Stay in present time! A sad realization I had over a year ago was when I was reading "The Power of Now" there was a part about needing to stay in present time order to fully remember things. For instance, if I was having lunch with a girlfriend and lets say at that time "crushing" on some guy, normally I would be there having lunch talking with my friend about whatever and all the while trying to look like I am involved with the conversation but really my mind is thinking about Mr. So&So...and then flash forward 6 months and I am having lunch again with the same friend and she happens to say "remember when we had lunch last and I said this and you laughed and laughed etc." and then I say "oh yeah......that was soo funny" While really I don't remember what she is talking about because the whole lunch time we spent together my mind was off thinking about some guy... :/ I hope this is making sense... Well, the point I hope I am making is that, when we allow our minds to constantly be in the past or the future [a future that we have no control over] it makes it sooooo hard to have real true memories, because our mind was never there in the present... I didn't realize how important it was to stay in present time till after reading that book, it literally changed my wake of thinking and has helped me with trying to be better about when I am with family and friends and enjoying that time right then and there with them rather than letting my mind trail off and thinking about something/someone else....