Forwarded Email

I usually got a couple of spam email and forwarded chain emails from people whose names are not on my contact list. Personally, I view them as garbage that needs to be disposed immediately for fear of creating havoc on my PC by way of infecting virus on my disk drive. These mails are deleted in no time without opening the message content. I have had enough of forwarded emails from friends and colleagues that promise to bring good luck and god fortune only if forwarded to certain number of people. Sometimes this comes with guarantee notes with testimonials from success stories of people who suffered bad luck and misfortune for failure to forward a particular message to such number of people. I usually delete messages from my mailbox at the sight of the subject without opening them anymore. I just click them away and trash afterwards.

Sometimes however, I opened messages just for curiosity and fun especially after a stressful day @ work. So, here I am sharing you the email I got forwarded by my former officemate Raffy Manrique. I find it such a waste of time if I will not be able to share this to all of you. If you are not interested nothing will happen. If you are interested however, please continue reading this.

Here go the Stress Management.

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?" Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.

The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance."

In each case, it is the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes. He continued, "and that's the way it is with stress management. If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on."

"As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden."

So before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don't carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you are carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can.

So, my friend, why not take a while to just simply relax. Put down everything that may be a burden to you right now. Don't pick it up again after you've rested a while. Life is short. Enjoy it!!!

Here are some great ways of dealing with the burden in life.

• Accept that some day you're the pigeon, and some days you are the statue.
• Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
• Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
• Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
• If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
• If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
• It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
• Nobody cares if you can dance well. Just get up and dance.
• Never buy both feet in your mouth, because then you won't have a leg to stand.
• The second mouse gets the cheese.
• When everything's coming your way you're in the wrong lane.
  
• Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
• Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
• A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.