I'd Pick More Daisies

This is something Nancy sent me at school in March '97.

This is the beginning of a new day.

The Lord/Lady has given me this day to use as I will.
I can waste it or use it for good.
What I do today is important because I am exchanging it for a day of my life.
When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever;
Leaving in it's place, something I traded for it.

I want it to be gain, not loss;
good, not evil;
success not failure.

In order that I shall not regret the price I paid.
- author unknown

This is something my Dad sent me in Edmonton sometime in 1990.

I'D PICK MORE DAISIES

"Of course you can't unfry an egg, but there's no law against thinking about it.

If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places, I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones.

You see, I have been one of those fellows who live prudently, hour after hour, day after day. Oh! I have had my moments, but if I had it to do over again, I would have more of them . . . a lot more. I never went anywhere without a thermometer, a map, a raincoat and a parachute. If I had it to do over again, I would travel lighter.

If I had my life to live over, I would start going barefoot a little earlier in the Spring and stay that way a little later in the Fall. I would have more dogs. I would keep later hours. I would have more sweethearts, I'd fish more, ride more merry-go-rounds. and go to more circuses.

For no one ever lay on their deathbed and said "I wish I'd spent more time at the office."

In a world in which practically everybody else seems to be consecrated to the gravity of the situation, I would rise to glorify the levity of the situation. For I agree with Will Durant, who said, "Gaiety is wiser than Wisdom."

If I had my life to live over, I'd pick more daisies."