The life on this earth is quite enough for any reasonable man. But there is no harm in getting a new base of life, if one can have all the good things of life. Every child during the early years of school read stories and fancy many of the characters portrayed in them. I once read a Chinese story illustrating this point of view. .
There was a man who was in hell and about to be reincarnated, and said to the King of Reincarnation, "If you want me to return to the earth as a human being, I will only go on my own conditions." "And what are they?"," asked the King. The man replied, "I must be born the son of a cabinet minister and father of a future cabinet minister. I must have ten thousand acres of land surrounding my home and fish ponds and fruits of every kind and a beautiful wife, good and loving to me, and rooms stocked full of grain and trunks full to the top with money, and I myself must be a Grand Councilor or Duke of the First Rank and enjoy honor and prosperity and live until I am hundred years old. And the King of Reincarnation replied, "If I were such a lot on earth, I would go and be incarnated myself, and not give it to you. This is a very reasonable answer to any man who wants to have all the good things of life. Life is to be accepted with all its joys and sorrows, with its sunny days and cloudy nights. The world in which we live is necessarily an imperfect world, and man is, as it were, sandwiched between. Therefore, I do not seek at any moment in my life a world which is perfect in all respects. If I am given the chance (I wonder, if it ever happen) to be born again, I will not lay down any unreasonable conditions unlike the man in the Chinese story which may embarrass my Creator.
I shall be glad if I am delivered upon this beautiful earth as its transient guest and asked to leave after seventy five years (I ask only for this much concession) of rough and tumble life. After I have seen two generations of children and grand children I should be perfectly satisfied to rise from my seat and go away saying: It was a good game and I have really played well and enjoyed my innings to the full.
Only if I knew that in fact it took a real man to step up and say no I've had enough . ... I had forgotten where I was; even that I was in the hospital. ... And if I don't change it will cost me my life some day. ... I felt like a new person that was given a gracious second chance at life. ... And that's okay for most people because they can live to realize their mistake. ...
In the second chapter of Walden, "Where I Lived and What I Lived For", Thoreau expresses his desire "to live deliberately" (pg. 271) and to "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life" (pg. 271). He wished to live for everything nature itself had to offer, instead of becoming distracted by trivialities, such as social gossip, materialism, and modern technology. ... He felt that these things prevented him from living life to the fullest and feared dying, only to "discover [he] had not lived" (pg. 271). ... In "Where I Lived and What I Lived For&qu...
The first and the most important reason, as Woolf says in her essay, they had no chance to get an education at that time. ... If in that time women had an opportunity to study at school, learn grammar and logic, I think at least one of them would have recewed good grades and of course would be a good writer. ... The second reason, is that women in the 16th century would have been writers, if they would have been married a little bit older than they were, because first of all they had to make a career. ... Writers need inspiration to write, but if they do not like how they live, they can not wr...
It says that if you want to be adventurous you have to take chances. ... The story behind the first house was that a scientist had lived there a long time ago and studied wildlife. ... The letter was from some relative of whoever had lived in this house. ... Said Scott "Good call" seconded Cory. ... So the guys put Ashley and I on their backs and we went through the room the rat just scurried into a second ago. ...
The first mistake that I will cover is the time when I ruined the chance to recruit a civilian. ... If I had humbled myself, and allowed this cadet to speak, we would have had one more cadet in our program now. The second mistake that I want to discuss is how I allowed conformity when I was teaching a cadet to lead a flight. ... When I was promoted to Sergeant I thought that I was the greatest sergeant that had ever lived. ... For example If I had continued my education and bettered myself, I would be a Lieutenant by now. ...
However, regardless all of that I still haven't found my "second half," which would make me a truly happy person. ... Going forward if I would be able to do that there would be also in that scenario based on statistic a greater chance for me to find "my love". ... We have never heard about people complaining about because he or she had too much money. ... I also thing that people like that always had to live with that question deep down inside of them, which in my opinion prevent them in some way of having a happy relationship. ... First one would be ugly people, second normal and the...
For instance if DNA testing had been done back then in the early 80's then quite possibly Morin would not have been put in jail for a crime he did not commit. ... If they had then quite possibly the forensics team and police could have did a full out grid search of the area and could have taken soil samples and other organic samples from around the area. ... He was young about 22yrs lived next door to Christine Jessop and was peculiar in nature. ... This gave Guy Paul a chance to do the crime. ... When Morin was sentenced to his second trial that's when things became hostile. ...
Tizzie Dunn was dead, too, and the Waters had gone back to England. ... Her past life, which is depicted to be a "black mass with illumined portholes", "blew a long mournful whistle into the mist" and hinted for her to give it a second chance. ... Night after night I had passed the house (it was vacation time) and studied the lighted square of window: and night after night I had found it lighted in the same way, faintly and evenly. If he was dead, I thought, I would see the reflection of candles on the darkened blind for I knew that two candles must be set at the head of a corpse (The Sis...
On May 3, 1986, Jon and Dawn Phillips were blessed with the birth of their second of four children. ... I successfully lived the "Christian Life- up until fourth grade. ... I cannot live without my dad. ... Deep down inside, I knew that if I did not come out of this trance, I would end up hurting myself more than I already had. ... I think that if I had the chance to go back and change anything in my life, I would not. ...