The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
What are we waiting for? We live our lives on the installment plan or "I'll be happy whenÉ" We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, have another. Then we get frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are. Then we're frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage! We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, when we are able to go on a nice vacation or when we retire. The truth is there is no better time to be happy than right now! If not nowÉ when? Your life will always be filled with challenges. It is best to realize this and just be happyÉ you are only as happy as you allow yourself to be! Happiness is indeed a state of mind. Treasure every moment that you have and treasure it even more because you have shared it with someone special. Remember, time waits for no one! Stop living on the installment plan and saying to your self, that you'll be happy when the car or house is paid off, the kids leave home, you go back to school, you finish school, you lose 10 pounds, you gain 10 pounds, you get married, you get a divorce, you have kids, you retire, when spring comes, when summer comes, etc. Happiness is a journey, not a destinationÉ so work like you don't need the money, love like you have never been hurt, dance like no one is watching! Enjoy your days and the people in them! See 'The' P.# Con't from P.# Do you remember: Can you guess what year this was? - I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buys a week's groceries for $20. - Have you seen the new cars coming out for next year? It won't be long till $5,000 will only buy you a used one! - If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit! A quarter a pack is ridiculous! - Did you hear that the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter! - If they raise the minimum wage to $1, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store! - When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage! - Kids today are impossible. Those ducktail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls! - I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies anymore. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying damn in "Gone with the Wind", it seems every new movie has either hell or damn in it! - I read the other day where some scientist thinks it is possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas. - Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday that they will be making more than the President! - I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now! - It is too bad things have gotten so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet! - It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work! - I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business. - Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the government takes half our income in taxes. - The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on! - I guess taking a vacation is out of the question nowadays. It costs nearly $15 a night to stay in a hotel. - No one can afford to be sick anymore, $35 a day in hospital is too rich for my blood. The year was 1957.
