Stop To Smell The Roses

Don’t race through life. Stop to smell the roses. Try to find happiness in things that you have to do while doing it.

For years I said to myself that I will be happy only after completing a task.

But I have come  to realize that life is time. And if I am only going to be happy at the end of things then my life will be an unhappy one most of the time.

So I am going to stop to smell the roses every now and then.

What Nebiy Makonnen Did In an Ethiopian Prison

He did not rot, he did not go crazy. He translated Gone With The Wind.

Using smoothed 3000 sheets cigarette foil for paper and reading the smuggled in book for an hour at a time ( the book was shared by 350 men) he took two years to complete.

Folded and put back into cigarette boxes of released prisoners to take them out of prison- he had to spend another two years of travel and inquiry before gathering all 3000 sheets. Finally he was able to publish the translation that Ethiopians read today.

The Art of Living - 1

Aart Van de Toorn knows how to live. At the age of 72, Mr Toorn drove through 16 countries for 10 weeks to reach South Africa to watch his beloved Holland play in the World Cup. You can read about here.

You see, there is really no excuse for you and me to be bored. There are so many things to do, so many books to read and so many places to go.

All you have to have is passion for life.