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The Rose Recipe

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Ingredients

Love

Faith

Hope

Understanding

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The first day of school our professor introduced

himself and challenged us to get to know someone

we didn't already know. I stood up to look around

when a gentle hand touched my shoulder.

I turned round to find a wrinkled little old lady

beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire

being.

She said, "Hi, handsome. My name is Rose. I'm

eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?"

I laughed and enthusiastically responded, "Of

course you may!" And she gave me a giant squeeze.

"Why are you in college at such a young, innocent

age?" I asked.

She joking replied, "I'm here to meet a rich

husband, get married, and have a couple of kids..."

"No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may

have motivated her to be taking on this callenge at

her age.

"I always dreamed of having a college education

and now I'm getting one!" she told me.

After class we walked to the student union

building and shared a chocolate milkshake.

We became instant friends. Every day for the

next three months we would leave class together

and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized

listening to this 'time machine," as she shared her

wisdom and experiences with me.

Over the course of the year, Rose became a

campus icon and she easily made friends

wherever she went.

She loved to dress up and she reveled in the

attention bestowed upon her from the other students.

She was living it up.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to

speak at our football banquet.

I'll never forget what she taught us. She was

introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she

began to deliver her prepared speech, she

dropped her three by five cards on the floor.

Frustrated and a little embarrassed, she leaned

into the microphone and simply said, "I'm sorry I'm

so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey

is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order

so let me tell you what I know."

As we laughed she cleared her throat and

began, "We do not stop playing because we are

old; we grow old because we stop playing.

There are only four secrets to staying young,

being happy, and achieving success. You have to

laugh and find humor everyday. You've got to have

a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.

We have so many people walking around

who are dead and don't even know It!

There is a huge difference between growing

older and growing up.

If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for

one full year and don't do one producive thing,

you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven

years old and stay in bed for a year and never do

anything, I will turn eighty-eight.

Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take

any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by

always finding opportunity in change. Have

no regrets.

The elderly usually don't have regrets for

what we did, but for things we did not do. The

only people who fear death are those with

regrets." She concluded her speech by

courageously singing "The Rose."

She challenged each of us to study the

lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.

At the year's end Rose finished the

college degree she had begun all those

years ago.

One week after graduation Rose died

peacefully in her sleep.

Over two thousand college students

attended her funeral in tribute to the

wonderful woman who taught by example

that it's never too late to be all you can be.

These words have been passed along

in loving memory of ROSE.

REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS

MANDITORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.

We make a Living by what we get,

we make a Life by what we give.

God promises a safe landing, not a

calm passage. If God brings you to it,

He will bring you through it.

Good friends are like stars..............

You don't always see them, but you know

they are always there.

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Comments

22566 1 year, 4 months ago said:
Much needed,will said:

--------THANK-YOU!!!!!!!------------

yumyumm 1 year, 4 months ago said:
What a wonderful legacy this woman left.

cardinal54 1 year, 4 months ago said:
Wow, isnt it amazing what people can learn and teach at any age. Thanks for shareing this.

busmamawilliams 1 year, 4 months ago said:
Thank you for this poignant reminder to keep our hearts & our priorities in the right place. I'm a bus driver & once had a very elderly & very lonely passenger named Rose. You rode every day, because she was lonely, & every day she'd come to me & say "I need a hug" & every day i'd give her one. I miss her.

greekgirrrl 1 year, 4 months ago said:
What an incredibly touching story..Thank you.

tuilelaith 1 year, 2 months ago said:
This is so touching.... Thank you for the post. I will be sharing it with my friends and family.

momo_55grandma 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Rose was a beautiful soul and a great mind wow ya got to say she was a beautiful lady thanks

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