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Pastimes : Tuesdays with Morrie

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To: Jon Khymn who wrote (3)	12/5/2000 5:14:23 PM
From: Greta Mc	Read Replies (2) of 13

I hope you get to see your coworker. I recently spent time with a former neighbor who is in her 80's and has some health problems. I used to live a couple doors down and used to see her pretty frequently, and now am over an hour away and this was the first visit I'd made to see her since I moved 6 months ago. I was overwhelmed at how much she'd missed me and I felt guilty about not having visited her sooner. I don't think I realized until this weekend how much I meant to her and I realize I have to make more of an effort to visit her. She's interesting to talk to. She grew up in a large family (10 children in the family), and they were very poor, yet she talks about how happy her childhood was even though they didn't have much of anything. She talked about one Christmas when her father went out in the snow (walked, no car) on Christmas Eve to get Christmas presents for the kids and she got a little doll, about 3 inches tall. She said she took such good care of that doll, and that it meant so much to her. And it's hard for her to understand the excesses people have today. She says, "We didn't have nothing and we were happy." And I'm embarrassed: I left out an important part of Morrie's quote, so here it is in it's entirety: "So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they are chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning." (Sometimes I'm a stickler for detail.)

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