Things aren't always what they seem

Two traveling angels

Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family.
The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's guest room.
Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold basement.
As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it.
When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied,
"Things aren't always what they seem."
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife.
After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest.
When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears.
Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field.
The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel how could you have let this happen?
The first man had everything, yet you helped him, she accused.
The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die.
"Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied.
"When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall.
Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn't find it."
"Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead.

Things aren't always what they seem."

To my parents

This is just to tell my parents how grateful I am to have them and let them know how much they mean to me.

Love you mummy and daddy.You mean the world to me.

Thank you, mummy and daddy
For all the sacrifices made
For every second spent with me
For helping me grow
For the love so unconditional
For the gift of life
For every step u made me take
For telling me right from wrong
For the faith u have in me
For the patience u have
For not letting us know when you were troubled
For not letting any harm happen to us
For always making us happy
For being a friend
For the shoulder to lean on to
For being so understanding
For putting up with our tantrums
For being my strength
For giving me comfort
For giving the warm hugs and loving kisses

Thank you, God
For giving me my mummy and daddy
For making me their child
For being there for us in their form
For every second I spend with them
For making them so perfect and beautiful

Running with Life: An African Proverb

An African Proverb....

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up,
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
It doesnt matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.

MEMORY !!!

I was going through an old bunch of photographs, and the feeling that took me over can't be put it into words even if I knew every word in the dictionary. I hope I had a time machine, which could take me back to the past.....each photo had a story of it own. Some thing which u forget completely, just one glimpse at the photograph and the memories just came rushing. It was at that second that I realized how I miss my past.

A SMALL ADVISE : Take some time and just go through your old pictures, I'm telling you it will be worth the ride to your past n its worth PRICELESS!!!

Below are a few Quotes on Memories -

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. ~Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses


I am a miser of my memories of you
And will not spend them.
~Witter Bynner, "Coins"

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years

A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. ~Edward de Bono

Every man's memory is his private literature. ~Aldous Huxley

God gave us memories that we might have roses in December. ~J.M. Barrie, Courage, 1922

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. ~Austin O'Malley

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. ~Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal

We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. ~Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest"

It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life. ~P.D. James

And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses - would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? ~Rainer Maria Rilke

The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume. ~Jean de Boufflers

One need not be a chamber to be haunted;
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place.
~Emily Dickinson, "Time and Eternity"

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future. ~David Gerrold

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose. ~Hortense Calisher, Queenie, 1971

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ~Saul Bellow

Memory itself is an internal rumour. ~George Santayana, The Life of Reason

A childhood is what anyone wants to remember of it. It leaves behind no fossils, except perhaps in fiction. ~Carol Shields

It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment - but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer? ~Lord Byron

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen. ~Cynthia Ozick

The past is never dead, it is not even past. ~William Faulkner

--> The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. ~Thomas Fuller

Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
~T.S. Eliot

Memory is what tells a man that his wife's birthday was yesterday. ~Mario Rocco

To live in hearts we leave behind
Is not to die.
~Thomas Campbell, Hallowed Ground

In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified. ~John Updike

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember. ~Seneca

Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges. ~Dante G. Roque

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory. ~Author Unknown

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. ~Thalassa Cruso, To Everything There is a Season, 1973

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. ~Samuel Johnson

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. ~Salvador Dali

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. ~Michel de Montaigne

The faintest waft is sometimes enough to induce feelings of hunger or anticipation, or to transport you back through time and space to a long-forgotten moment in your childhood. It can overwhelm you in an instant or simply tease you, creeping into your consciousness slowly and evaporating almost the moment it is detected. ~Stephen Lacey, Scent in Your Garden, 1991

She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes. ~Frank Deford

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. ~From the movie An Affair to Remember

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact. ~Diane Sawyer

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward. ~Margaret Fairless Barber, The Roadmender

JUST A POEM I WROTE!!!

Would like to dedicate it to my friends with whom i lost touch...

Gone are those days,
We together had enjoyed in many ways.
I look back,
What did I lack.
Where what had gone wrong,
To think back is it too long.
Under the sun together we laughed,
Did you think all that is now enough.
I thought you said friends for ever,
But now it is 'Nah Never'.
You said you can see some change,
I question you to what range?
I thought I will apologize,
Another chance you should have given otherwise.
Angry with you I am,
Should I just forget you wham.
Answer me I say,
U didn't even say go away.
Say something even a simple smile,
We slowly went apart mile by mile.
As the time laps,
It is difficult to bridge the gap.
Now a days you are being very curt,
Have no doubt it still does hurt.
To what extent I need not tell,
Cause in you it will ring no bell.
If you want to stay apart,
I will morn and depart.
But remember U will always be in my heart.