Vik Dulat - Life is good

A friend of mine forwarded me this email.

This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital.

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

Do you run through each day on the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.

Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child, we’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste, not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time to call and say,”Hi”

You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift….thrown away.

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

My heart goes out to the ill girl and her family. As you can see, life is too short and you should enjoy it to the fullest. This girl will not be able to graduate from high school or get married because she has only 6 months to live.

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