Advices from a 90 year old

I have seen these words  of wisdom  earlier. But I didn't know it was written by this 90 year old lady !

This is something we should all read at least once a week!!!!! Make sure you read to the end!!!!!!

Written by Regina Brett, 90 years old, of the Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio .

 
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most requested column I've ever written.

My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:

 

1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.

3. Life is too short – enjoy it..

4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and family will.

5. Pay off your credit cards every month.

6. You don't have to win every argument. Stay true to yourself.

7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.

8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.

9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.

10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.

12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.

13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.

14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it..

15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye But don't worry; God never blinks.

16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.

17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful. Clutter weighs you down in many ways.

18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.

19. It's never too late to be happy. But it’s all up to you and no one else.

20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.

21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.

22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.

23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.

24. The most important sex organ is the brain.

25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.

26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'

27. Always choose life.

28. Forgive but don’t forget.

29. What other people think of you is none of your business.

30. Time heals almost everything. Give time time.

31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does..

33. Believe in miracles.

34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.

35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.

36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

37. Your children get only one childhood.

38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.

39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.

40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.

41. Envy is a waste of time. Accept what you already have not what you want.

42. The best is yet to come...

43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.

44. Yield.

45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."

Linux: All things about Cows...

Recently a friend (Ishan Karve) of mine introduced me to nifty small script/ program called 'cowsay' which has makes life on the Linux command terminal interesting and amusing. Pity, Windows users won't be able to use it.

It is basically a ASCII cow which  moooos...... to you interesting quotes (when linked with the 'fortune' program) or you can make it say un-interesting things as shown below (when used alone!!) :-
__________________________
< My name is Gantayet >
 ----------------------------------------
        \   ^__^
         \  (oo)\_______
            (__)\       )\/\
                ||--------w |
                ||     ------||

The program developer Tony Monroe mentions that he decided on this ASCII cow mooing as cows were quite popular in his life!!! Wow! And I thought only Indian revered cows!! He says: "ASCII cows have been wandering in herds around the net for a long time, bringing good will and unnecessary bovine humor to all who meet them"

You can check out the cows grazing on the Internet at this linked site: Canonical list of cows

The program is pretty easy to install - just get the package from Tony Monroe's cowsay site  or if you are on a Debian system (like Ubuntu, Mint etc), just do a 'sudo apt-get -i cowsay' at your command prompt. Post that you can directly run cowsay from the terminal giving it some text to moo about like 'cowsay My name is foo' or pipe fortune quotes like 'fortune | cowsay' at the terminal screen.

Coming to the interesting part: The COW ASCII image has many variation which can be invoked by the -f option to cowsay  (cowsay -f ) . To know what are the options available, just do 'cowsay -l'. This will list all the options availablewhich is pretty interesting. Ok, the options are :

apt beavis.zen bong bud-frogs bunny cheese cower daemon default dragon dragon-and-cow elephant elephant-in-snake eyes flaming-sheep ghostbusters head-in hellokitty kiss kitty koala kosh luke-koala mech-and-cow meow milk moofasa moose mutilated ren satanic sheep skeleton small sodomized sodomized-sheep stegosaurus stimpy supermilker surgery telebears three-eyesturkey turtle tux udder vader vader-koala www

And if you use 'cowthink' instead of 'cowsay', you will get a thinking moooo :-)

Here is an examples when I ran 'fortune | cowsay -f :

fortune | cowsay -f tux
_______________________________________
/ You'll be called to a post requiring    \
\ ability in handling groups of people. /
 ----------------------------------------------------------------
   \
    \
        .--.
       |o_o |
       |:_  / |
      //       \ \
     (|          | )
    /'\_       _/`\
    \___)=(___/


And this Option is interesting ;-) 'fortune | cowsay -f sodomized'
____________________________________________
/ Increased knowledge will help you now. \
\ Have mate's phone bugged.                     /
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
      \                _
       \              (_)
        \   ^__^       / \
         \  (oo)\_____/_\ \
            (__)\           ) /
                ||---------w ((
                ||            ||>>

 Pretty interesting, yeah??