How To Live And Die!

By Kumar on December 17, 2015 / 3,566 views

I'e often thought about what it is that makes people happy—what one has to do in order to achieve happiness. 1- First and foremost is good health. If you do not enjoy good health, you can never be happy. Any ailment, however trivial, will deduct something from your happiness. 2- Second, a healthy bank balance. It need not run into crores, but it should be enough to provide for...

Godliness

By C M Reddy on December 16, 2015 / 4,333 views

The following incident happened in the middle of 1950's when the great saintly woman Mother Teresa serving the poor, leper & orphans through her Order of the Missionaries charity in Culcutta of India. One day a man came to her seeking help for a family consists of a single woman & eight children had been starving for many days. Mother went with necessary quantity of food grains to the...

The Snowsuit

By Kay on December 16, 2015 / 3,862 views

"Can you tell me if anyone in our store does community service?" Bill asked. A person spoke up and said, "I know that Rose does. She helps the homeless at her church." Bill, my husband, had recently been transferred to this store as the Store Manager. Bill liked to recognize employees who worked in community service. He met with Rose and found out about the outreach program operating out of...

Be Cranky And Miserable This Christmas!

By Amanda Chouinard on December 16, 2015 / 2,992 views

I woke up this morning and thought, what could I possibly give thanks for during this holiday season?! Here's WHY I'm grouchy, and you should be too. 1)Snow. Here in Canada, most places get it. Lots of it! It's cold. Horrible. Don't quote me on this, but I'm sure millions end up going to the hospital for shovelled-too-much-and-broke-my-back-itis. 2) Store...

Cabbage Patch Dolls

By Kay on December 16, 2015 / 2,771 views

Do you remember "Cabbage Patch" dolls? Years ago, especially at Christmas, those dolls were a big rage. It seemed like everyone wanted one and the stores could not keep them in stock. In order to get a doll people were given a "rain check" they could use when a new supply came in. Even though Bill, my husband was the General Store Manager of K-Mart I did not get any special...

The Crawling Man

By William Engel on December 16, 2015 / 3,762 views

My girlfriend (who is now my wife) and I were taking a hike one afternoon on a wet weekend; it had been raining a lot. We haven't hiked a lot before this, so we were tired from the beginning. I decided we should go up a simple mountain near where we lived, a place where families can be frequently spotted along the way. As we were ascending two girls on their way down looked at us and said "Watch out...

The End Is The Beginning

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 14, 2015 / 5,575 views

With Winter coming on I finally decided to replace the worn and torn blanket and quilt on my bed. Years of washing and dogs and cats jumping on them had left them threadbare and full of holes. I found a nice blanket cheap at a local store and dug an old quilt out of an older dresser in my room. When I looked at the quilt, though, I noticed that underneath the corner was a piece of tape with my Dad's name...

Christmas At The Gas Station

By Unknown on December 13, 2015 / 2,788 views

By Unknown on December 13, 2015 / 2,788 views

The old man sat in his gas station on a cold Christmas Eve. He hadn't been anywhere in years since his wife had passed away. It was just another day to him. He didn't hate Christmas, just couldn't find a reason to celebrate. He was sitting there looking at the snow that had been falling for the last hour and wondering what it was all about when the door opened and a homeless man stepped...

Make Patience Your Behaviour

By Sonia Kaur on December 13, 2015 / 4,941 views

I try to do my everything with little patience because I have realised that hurry converts small problems into bigger ones. Make patience your behaviour because everyday we come across my things, situations, persons which make us loose our temper very easily but once we keep patience we remain with peace. Everything in hurry only makes you heartbroken. Yesterday I have read in a book that...

Bitter And Sweet

By C M Reddy on December 11, 2015 / 5,162 views

Four days back there was an interesting incident occurred to remind me the fundamental truth about the human life in the airport. I was on fasting since it was Monday without having to eat anything & not to drink even a drop of water till the evening. I have gone to temple in the morning & had bananas from priest that were offered to the God. I kept carefully those two bananas wrapped up in a paper at...

I Learned Two Very Important Lessons That Day

By Neko on December 10, 2015 / 4,772 views

Way back in the day I was a hairsylist. Colors, cuts, all that jazz. It was a well known chain (that was anything but Fantastic!) so we usually had a lot of walk-in customers. People, in general, are normally pretty nice and friendly. Will engage you with small talk, which is all I did all day long, and are generally not too bad. Not this one lady though. When she came in it was weird. She was a...

This Teacher Enjoyed Failing Her Student Until One Day She Reads THIS In His File

By Sunny Skyz on December 09, 2015 / 4,595 views

By Sunny Skyz on December 09, 2015 / 4,595 views

Stories like this, always have a way of putting the right perspective on life. Jean Thompson stood in front of her fifth-grade class on the very first day of school in the fall and told the children a lie. Like most teachers, she looked at her pupils and said that she loved them all the same, that she would treat them all alike. And that was impossible because there in front of her, slumped in his...

I'm Just Me

By Andrew Lester Baron on December 09, 2015 / 4,160 views

Hi there! I'm Andrew Lester Baron but you can call me drew or an. I'm from Philippines. I'm glad I can share my life story here. Enjoy reading and I hope it will inspire you to do great things you will never expect to happen. When I was five year old I was far away from my parents. I was just being raised by my aunt, uncle, grandma and with my sisters. Everyone else around me says that I...

Make Good Memories

By Kay on December 09, 2015 / 3,742 views

My husband Bill's Grandma Z. was in a nursing home when we moved back to Michigan. Grandma had been unable to walk for quite some time; now her eye sight was almost gone. Over the years Grandma Z. and I had exchanged many cards and letters. I knew how she enjoyed staying in touch with people. Since I'd come back to Michigan, Grandma Z. thought I should be her "personal...

Tending Your Fire

By Joseph J. Mazzella on December 08, 2015 / 3,864 views

When I was a boy every summer I would spend a wonderful week at 4-H camp. It was always so much fun. Delicious meals were served in the dining hall three times a day. There were fun classes to go to in the morning and sports and swimming in the afternoon. There was a friendly competition between the four tribes for the spirit stick all through the week. And there were long nights spent lying awake, laughing,...

I Wasn't

By Ana Fe Sibor on December 08, 2015 / 4,042 views

I wasn't that child that you will say; she's going to excel in this. I wasn't that kind of a person who got the best records and grades while I was on school, I wasn't that girl who's on the first section. I'll tell you who I was back then. I am that child who dream and aim big, I am that girl who have a bigger vision that sometimes scares me, I am that girl who close her eyes and see...

Fran's Silent Night

By Kay on December 07, 2015 / 2,130 views

I will never hear "Silent Night" and not think of Fran*. No matter where Fran was you could always hear her humming the first two bars of "Silent Night." To be honest, this constant humming of only the first two bars of this beautiful carol, could be quite annoying. Knowing that Fran had Alzheimer's helped me forgive her repetitive humming. However, the other patients living at the...