Three women die together in an accident and go to heaven. When they get there, St. Peter says, "We only have one rule here in heaven: don't step on the ducks!" So they enter heaven, and sure enough, there are ducks all over the place. It is almost impossible not to step on a duck, and although they try their best to avoid them, the first woman accidentally steps on one. Along comes St. Peter with the ugliest man she ever saw. St. Peter chains them together and says, "Your punishment for stepping on a duck is to spend eternity chained to this ugly man!" The next day, the second woman steps accidentally on a duck and along comes St. Peter, who doesn't miss a thing. With him is another extremely ugly man. He chains them together with the same admonishment as for the first woman. The third woman has observed all this and, not wanting to be chained for all eternity to an ugly man, is very, VERY careful where she steps. She manages to go months without stepping on any ducks, but one day St. Peter comes up to her with the most handsome man she has ever laid eyes on. He is very tall, long eyelashes, muscular, and thin. St. Peter chains them together without saying a word. The happy woman says, "I wonder what I did to deserve being chained to you for all of eternity?" The guy says, "I don't know about you, but I stepped on a duck!"
Everyday Facts:
- Almost 70,000 thoughts hit the mind of an average human everyday.
- Seahorses move along at about 0.01 mph, making them what scientists believe to be the slowest fish in the ocean.
- Eleutheromania is an intense obsession with freedom.
- Queen Elizabeth II keeps a crown-adorned rubber ducky in the royal bathtub.
- Each year, about 440,000,000 birds die from smashing into windows — most birds don’t understand reflections.
- The scent that women find most arousing is Good & Plenty candy mixed with cucumber, according to a study.
- The voice actor of SpongeBob is married to the voice actor of Plankton’s computer wife (Karen) in real life.
- Eating bacon can help you live longer because it contains niacin.
- You are more likely to be injured by a folding lawn chair than while riding a roller coaster.
- Dogs cannot feel guilt — they can only feel sad because their owner is yelling at them.
- The average American 3-year-old can recognize about 100 brand logos.
- People become extremely honest, awkward, weird and or personal during the late night/early morning.
- Psychology says – staying quiet doesn’t mean you’ve got nothing to say. It means you don’t think they’re ready to hear your thoughts.
- We learn how to laugh before we learn how to talk.
- The people who get upset with each other over the stupidest of things are usually the ones who care the most!
- Old text messages, songs and photos provide a psychological window into the past. Revealing what you miss, how things used to be.Winnie-The-Pooh characters all represent some type of mental disorder. (Eeyore – Depression, Pooh – Addiction, Tigger – ADHD, Owl – OCD)
- 75% of women ask questions in which they already know the answer to. This is why it’s best to simply tell her the truth.
- If you don’t do stupid things while you’re young, you’ll have nothing to smile about when you’re old.
- The most powerful way to win an argument is by asking questions. You’d be surprised at how it can make people see the flaws in their logic.
- Delete your browser cookies before you buy airline tickets. Ticket prices go up when you visit travel sites multiple times.
- The best revenge is to move on, get over it, and continue to succeed. Never give someone the satisfaction of watching you suffer.
- 86% of people use music to escape from their daily stress.
- The unhappiest people in this world are the people who care the most about what everyone else thinks.
- When you don’t eat for 12 hours, your metabolism slows by 40%. This is why eating regular meals is essential when trying to lose weight.
Random Information given by LJ Adap.
Portrait of A Friend
I can’t give solutions to all of life’s problems, doubts, or fears. But I can listen to you, and together we will search for answers.
I can’t change your past with all it’s heartache and pain, nor the future with its untold stories. But I can be there now when you need me to care.
I can’t keep your feet from stumbling. I can only offer my hand that you may grasp it and not fall. Your joys, triumphs, successes, and happiness are not mine;
Yet I can share in your laughter. Your decisions in life are not mine to make, nor to judge; I can only support you, encourage you, and help you when you ask.
I can’t prevent you from falling away from friendship, from your values, from me. I can only pray for you, talk to you and wait for you.
I can’t give you boundaries which I have determined for you, But I can give you the room to change, room to grow, room to be yourself.
I can’t keep your heart from breaking and hurting, But I can cry with you and help you pick up the pieces and put them back in place.
I can’t tell you who you are. I can only love you and be your friend
The One that got Away….
In your life, you’ll make note of a lot of people. Ones with whom you
shared something special, ones who will always mean something. There’s the
one you first kissed, the one you first loved, the one you lost your
virginity to, the one you put on a pedestal, the one you’re with…and the
one that got away.
Who is the one that got away? I guess it’s that person with who everything
was great, everything was perfect, but the timing was just wrong. There was
no fault in the person, there was no flaw in the chemistry, but the cards
just didn’t fall the right way, I suppose.
I believe in the fact that ending up with someone, finding a longtime
partner that is, does not lie merely in the other person. I can actually
argue that an equal part, or maybe even the greater part, has to do with
the matter of timing. It has to do with you being ready to settle down and
commit to someone in a way that goes beyond the little niceties of giddy
romance.
How often have you gone through it without even realizing it? When you’re
not ready to commit in that mature manner, it doesn’t matter who you’re
with, it just doesn’t work. Small problems become big; inconsequentials
become dealbreakers simply because you’re not ready and it shows. It’s not
that you and the person you’re with are no good; it’s just that it’s not
yet right, and little things become the flashpoint of that fact.
Then one day you’re ready. You really are. And when this happens you’ll be
ready to settle down with someone. He or she may not be the most perfect,
they might not be the brightest star of romance to ever have burned in your
life, but it’ll work because you’re ready. It’ll work because it’s the
right time and you’ll make it work. And it’ll make sense, it really will.
So that day comes when you’re finally making sense of things, and you find
yourself to be a different person. Things are different, your approach is
different, you finally understand who you are and what you want, and you’ve
become ready because the time has truly arrived. And mind you, there’s no
telling when this day will come. Hopefully you’re single but you could be
in a long-term relationship, you could be married with twoe kids, it
doesn’t matter. All you know is that you’ve changed, and for some reason,
the one that got away, is the first person you think about.
You’ll think about them because you’ll wonder, What if they were here
today? You’ll wonder, What if we were together now, with me as I am and
not as I was? That’s what the one that got away is. The biggest What if?
you’ll have in your life.
If you’re married, you’ll just have to accept the fact that the one that
got away, got away. Believe me, no matter how fairy tale you think your
marriage is, this can happen to the best of us. But hopefully you’re mature
enough to realize that you’re already with the one you’re with and this is
just another test of your commitment, one which will just strengthen your
marriage when you get past it. Sure, you’ll think about him/her every so
often, but it’s alright. It’s never nice to live with a might have been,
but it happens.
Maybe the one that got away is the one who’s already married. In which case
it’s the same thing. You just have to accept and know that your memories of
that person will probably bring a nice little smile to your lips in the
future when you’re old and gray and reminiscing.
But if neither of that is the case, then it’s different. What do you do if
it’s not yet too late? Simple…find him, find her. Because the very
existence of a one that got away means that you’ll always wonder, what if
you got that one?
Ask him out to coffee, ask her out to a movie, it doesn’t matter if you’ve
dropped in from out of nowhere. You’d be surprised, you just might be the
one that got away as well for the person who is your the one that got away.
You might drop in from out of nowhere and it won’t make a difference. If
the timing is finally right, it’ll all just fall into place somehow and you
know, I’m thinking, it would be a great feeling, in the end, to be able to
say to someone, Hey you, you’re the one that almost got away.