HOW TO STAY YOUNG

1. Throw out nonessential numbers.

This includes age, weight and height. Let the DOCTORS worry about them. That is why you pay 'them'.  (Note: See # 8)

2. Keep only cheerful friends.

The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning.

Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. 'An idle mind is the devil's workshop.'

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh...

Often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. Let tears happen.

Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love...

Whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health:

If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips.

Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Worry about nothing, pray about everything!!!

Rule 1 :

Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 :

The world doesn't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 :

You will NOT make $100,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a CEO with a smartphone until you earn both.

Rule 4 :

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 :

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6 :

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault , so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 :

Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8 :

Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 :

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 :

Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11 :

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

If you can read this - thank a teacher!

My uncle Juanito died in the 70s, but his birthday is coming up, and that always causes me to reminisce. The long walks we used to take to Cornet in Waipahu, the 25 cents he gave me for meaningless jobs like pulling weeds or washing his car.

Those times were all good, but the one I remember most, the jewel in the crown of "Tito Nito's" advice, happened when I was only about 11.

We were sitting in a park having just finished eating lumpia and pansit, kinda staring into the sky.

He told me that one day, I would find a wonderful woman and start my own family. "And always remember this... Be sure you marry a woman with small hands."
"How come, uncle?' I asked him.

He answered in his soft, upper-class voice: "Makes your boto look bigger."