I had to share this with you my friends!



A good friend sent me this.......makes you think!!
Husbands what can you do for your wife and kids?
Wife what can you do for your husband and kids?
Kids what can you do for your parents and siblings?
Learn to enjoy and appreciate each other while you have each other.


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The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the
quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's
the unbounded joy of not having to be at work. Either way, the first
few hours of a Saturday morning are most enjoyable.

A few weeks ago, I was shuffling toward the garage with a
steaming cup of coffee in one hand and the morning paper in the other.
What began as a typical Saturday morning turned into one of those
lessons that life seems to hand you from time to time. Let me tell
you about it:

I turned the dial up into the phone portion
of the band on my ham radio in order to listen to a
Saturday morning swap net. Along the way, I came
across an older sounding chap, with a tremendous
signal and a golden voice. You know the kind; he
sounded like he should be in the broadcasting
business. He was telling whom-ever he was talking
with something about "a thousand marbles." I was
intrigued and stopped to listen to what he had to say

"Well, Tom, it sure sounds like you're busy
with your job. I'm sure they pay you well but it's a
shame you have to be away from home and your family
so much. Hard to believe a young fellow should have
to work sixty or seventy hours a week to make ends
meet. It's too bad you missed your daughter's
dance recital" he continued. "Let me tell you
something that has helped me keep my own
priorities." And that's when he began to explain his
theory of a "thousand marbles."

"You see, I sat down one day and did a little
arithmetic. The average person lives about
seventy-five years. I know, some live more and some
live less, but on an average, folks live about
seventy-five years.

"Now then, I multiplied 75 times 52 and I
came up with 3900, which is the number of Saturdays
that the average person has in their entire
lifetime. Now, stick with me, Tom, I'm getting to
the important part.

It took me until I was fifty-five years old
to think about all this in any detail", he went on,
and by that time I had lived through over
twenty-eight hundred Saturdays." "I got to thinking
that if I lived to be seventy-five, I only had about
a thousand of them left to enjoy. So I went to a
toy store and bought every single marble they had.
I ended up having to visit three toy stores to round
up 1000 marbles. I took them home and put them
inside a large, clear plastic container right here
in the shack next to my gear."

"Every Saturday since then, I have taken one
marble out and thrown it away. I found that by
watching the marbles diminish, I focused more on the
really important things in life.

There is nothing like watching your time
here on this earth run out to help get your
priorities straight."

"Now let me tell you one last thing before I
sign-off with you and take my lovely wife out for
breakfast. This morning, I took the very last marble
out of the container. I figure that if I make it
until next Saturday then I have been given a little
extra time. And the one thing we can all use is a
little more time."

"It was nice to meet you Tom, I hope you
spend more time with your family, and I hope to meet
you again here on the band. This is a 75 Year old
Man, K9NZQ, clear and going QRT, good morning!"

You could have heard a pin drop on the band
when this fellow signed off. I guess he gave us all
a lot to think about. I had planned to work on the
antenna that morning, and then I was going to meet
up with a few hams to work on the next club
newsletter.

Instead, I went upstairs and woke my wife up
with a kiss "C'mon honey, I'm taking you and the
kids to breakfast." "What brought this on?" she
asked with a smile. "Oh, nothing special, it's just
been a long time since we spent a Saturday together
with the kids. And hey, can we stop at a toy store
while we're out? I need to buy some marbles.

A friend sent this to me, so I to you, my friend.

And so, as one smart bear once said..."If
you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a
hundred minus one day, so I never have to live
without you." - Winnie the Pooh.

lol, chopperdan got me think,think,thinking,thanks for sharing

Chopper good to see ya,,,
Gives us lots to think about,, Thanks

This definetly makes u stop and think about what your priorties in life
are. Thank you.

nice story chopperdan tks

Does make ya think doesn't it thank's gives all of us something worth
thinking about

nice to see you chopper!! and yea!! makes you think!!

I think about this and it kinda makes things seem small. we all have a
limited time and we need to use it in a constructive way. Thank You to
all my friends, even the ones I have not met yet!

I LOVE this..it really makes you stop to truly cherish what is important
in life!!!!!!!!!!!! I may count the days until my son graduates from
highschool and put those marbles in a jar?????

Thank you so much for this!