If I had my Life to live over

[JennyOmanHill]

Found these Erma Bombeck quotations. They are surprisingly profound and inspirational:

IF I HAD MY LIFE TO LIVE OVER - by Erma Bombeck
(written after she found out she was dying from cancer):

I would have gone to bed when I was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I weren't there for the day.

I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.

I would have talked less and listened more.

I would have invited friends over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.

I would have eaten the popcorn in the 'good' living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone wanted to light a fire in the fireplace

I would have taken the time to listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.

I would have shared more of the responsibility carried by my husband.

I would never have insisted the car windows be rolled up on a summer day because my hair had just been teased and sprayed.

I would have sat on the lawn with my grass stains.

I would have cried and laughed less while watching television and more while watching life.

I would never have bought anything just because it was practical, wouldn't show soil, or was guaranteed to last a lifetime.

Instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished every moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.

When my kids kissed me impetuously, I would never have said, "Later. Now go get washed up for dinner." There would have been more "I love you's." More "I'm
sorry's."

But mostly, given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it, live it and never give it back. Stop sweating the small stuff.

Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what.

Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who do love us.

Let's think about what God HAS blessed us with. And what we are doing each day to promote ourselves mentally, physically, emotionally. I hope you all have
a blessed day.



Words of wisdom.

Hope I can adapt some of this attitude before it's too late.

 

[babydoll2u]

Profound indeed.... thanks for sharing this Jenny

 

[nineinchdale]

If I had life to live over I wouldn't have called the ambulance after swallowing 3 bottles of painkillers.

 

[JennyOmanHill]

If I had life to live over I wouldn't have called the ambulance after swallowing 3 bottles of painkillers.

That sounds like you did start a new life! (Glad you called.)


Personally, if I had my Life to live over, I likely wouldn't have changed a thing.

 

[keiffers]

If I had my life to live over, I would have spent more time with my father and told him I loved him (I'm sure he knows though)

 

[JennyOmanHill]

If I had my life to live over, I would have spent more time with my father and told him I loved him (I'm sure he knows though)

Time is so precious. It would be wonderful if all of us learned how precious it truly is when we were much younger.

 

[freakyone4u]

i wouldnt change a thing. i think we are all here to learn from what we do and we do things to learn from. if i would of lived my life any different up to this point i wouldnt be who i am.

 

[Arden]

Time is so precious. It would be wonderful if all of us learned how precious it truly is when we were much younger.

And how very precious it continues to be today

Thanks for bringing back some memories of such a funny lady... I remember reading "The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank" when I was in high school. I roared with laughter


Here are a few more prime quotes from Erma...

People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there's a wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

Guilt is the gift that keeps on giving.

I just clipped 2 articles from a current magazine. One is a diet guaranteed to drop 5 pounds off my body in a weekend. The other is a recipe for a 6 minute pecan pie.

Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop offs at tedium and counter productivity.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch on fire or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one cares. Why should you?
Education is so important when it comes to domesticity. I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, "Never mind! I'll do it myself."

When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the music that numbs your teeth, or even the bottle of capless shampoo dribbling down the shower drain. They're upset because they've gone from supervisor of a child's life to a spectator. It's like being the vice president of the United States.

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase

I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go into overload and blow up.

Making coffee has become the great compromise of the decade. It's the only thing "real" men do that doesn't seem to threaten their masculinity. To women, it's on the same domestic entry level as putting the spring back into the toilet-tissue holder or taking a chicken out of the freezer to thaw.

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-rearing, they are unemployed.

We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attaché cases and our three-piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

this last one is prophetic

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything you gave me."

 

[jacuzzigal]

i wouldnt change a thing. i think we are all here to learn from what we do and we do things to learn from. if i would of lived my life any different up to this point i wouldnt be who i am.

Well said, freakyone. I agree and I wouldn't change a thing either.

But I like Erma and she makes some good points that make me want to live my life better.

 

[JennyOmanHill]

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