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« on: January 21, 2015, 10:09:23 pm »
The Magic Bank Account

Imagine that you had won the following *PRIZE* in a contest: Each morning your bank would deposit $86,400 in your private account for your use.  However, this prize has rules:

The set of rules:

1. Everything that you didn't spend during each day would be taken away from you.

2. You may not simply transfer money into some other account.

3. You may only spend it.

4. Each morning upon awakening, the bank opens your account with another $86,400 for that day.

5. The bank can end the game without warning; at any time it can say, "Game Over!". It can close the account and you will not receive a new one.

What would you personally do?

You would buy anything and everything you wanted right? Not only for yourself, but for all the people you love and care for. Even for people you don't know, because you couldn't possibly spend it all on yourself, right?

You would try to spend every penny, and use it all, because you knew it would be replenished in the morning, right?

ACTUALLY, This GAME is REAL ...

Shocked ??? YES!

Each of us is already a winner of this *PRIZE*. We just can't seem to see it.

The PRIZE is *TIME*

1. Each morning we awaken to receive 86,400 seconds

as a gift of life.

2. And when we go to sleep at night, any remaining time is Not credited to us.

3. What we haven't used up that day is forever lost.

4. Yesterday is forever gone.

5. Each morning the account is refilled, but the bank can dissolve your account at any time WITHOUT WARNING...

SO, what will YOU do with your 86,400 seconds?

Those seconds are worth so much more than the same amount in dollars.  Think about it and remember to enjoy every second of your life, because time races by so much quicker than you think.

So take care of yourself, be happy, love deeply and enjoy life!

Here's wishing you a wonderful and beautiful day. Start "spending"....

"DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT GROWING OLD.!!!"
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« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2015, 10:13:06 pm »
awesome post lee........thank you!
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« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2015, 10:24:57 pm »
Good post.  :eusa_clap:

However it's sure easy to get absorbed in all the problems of a day to forget our time is limited.  Now I gotta figure out how many more seconds to spend on that darn bat  ;D
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« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2015, 10:39:39 pm »
3. What we haven't used up that day is forever lost.

  I disagree.  I spend a few seconds of each day remembering the seconds of days past, friends past, and friends lost. In those memories there is still hurt, but there is also a smile, lurking just under the surface.  The hurt will slowly fade, but that smile will be there, until the day the bank ends the game!
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« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2015, 10:48:13 pm »
very true scott, the day is lost, but not the memories.....

logic, you are truly a funny guy, bats, toads and moles.......... :D
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« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2015, 11:33:52 pm »
yeah, but all that money would be fun!  :D
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« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2015, 12:04:21 am »
I remember one day weeding my wife's grand parents garden with her grandma, we were laughing and cutting up, she stopped and smiled at me and said, Jack honey ;D, make every day count and have as much fun as you can while your young, because you'll be old before you know it. ??? Well she's gone now, and i'm her age when she told me that. :o WHAT HAPPENED. Jack
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« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2015, 12:28:03 am »
Lee- ""DON'T COMPLAIN ABOUT GROWING OLD.!!!"

      Actually Lee! I'm not having a problem with the aging process. It's just the joints that are complaining. But I'm getting a handle on that.

      I like the way I think now better than ever before ~ and I think you do too  ;) 8)
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« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2015, 08:54:19 am »
So many beekeepers are hopeless romantics.
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« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2015, 07:34:04 am »
Great post!  :eusa_clap:

Never regret growing old, it's a privilege denied to many!
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« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2015, 08:37:53 am »
Very true, and many a friend I had hoped to grow old with did not make it this far.  Thankfully, my best friend is still getting old and fat right beside me..  just... please dont tell her I said that!    The fat part  ;D
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« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2015, 10:32:19 am »
My dad was intolerant of the excuse, "I didn't have time".  He drilled into us, that every living thing on this earth has the same amount of time each day.....Life is what you make of it.   :)

Thanks for all the great comments!
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« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2015, 10:48:58 am »
Our dad was intolerant of the phrase " i can't do that" he would say, you stay there until you can do it. ??? Jack
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« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2015, 06:39:53 pm »
Quote from: brooksbeefarm on January 23, 2015, 10:48:58 am
Our dad was intolerant of the phrase " i can't do that" he would say, you stay there until you can do it. ??? Jack
I seem to have heard that somewhere as well Jack  :)
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« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2015, 07:34:42 pm »
Quote from: Lburou on January 23, 2015, 10:32:19 am
My dad was intolerant of the excuse, "I didn't have time".  He drilled into us, that every living thing on this earth has the same amount of time each day.....Life is what you make of it.   :)

Thanks for all the great comments!

I'm one of the world's best planners.

It's just that nothing ever goes according to plan............    :eusa_doh:
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