Each week, you trade 5 days for 2. That doesn't sound right to me.

I recently received this e-mail from my aunt. It is pretty rad. It is worth reading.

So, its Sunday evening. The only reason I’m still awake is because I have to study for economics. Also, I think I have gotten so use so only going to bed at 2 A.M. I’m not able to rest my head yet. Life is more exciting this way in any case + I believe the less you sleep the more value you get out of your time on earth.

My week was relentless, but I enjoyed every effed moment of it. Saw Soccer City. I think some things you only do to be able to say afterwards, ‘I did it.’
Supporting Bafana Bafana on a Wednesday night is one of them . I also realised that it takes a lot to get me excited and a 90min sporting event is not one of those things.
Drove around in a car like a cool-cat. Participated in Quiz masters, didn’t win but had the bestes time of all. Art is in. Did some other random stuff.

I actually wanted to write about Vogue Italia, the BP Oil Spill and how most of us never really take the bigger picture into consideration. But my brain is lame, my heart is too light and Enrique Iglesias is singing how HE LIKES IT!

So, read the story, have a flabbergasting week. Live because you WANT to and not because you have to.Good to go?

THE E-MAIL:
I finally bought a GPS. I fought the idea because I already had a wife. Didn’t need a GPS. Diane was my GPS. “Turn left in 500 ft – Stay on this road for three miles – Stop! – We’re here!”
Diane was always right and she didn’t need batteries. I travel alone now and I’m not very good at getting to my destination. On several occasions I’ve found myself in the middle of a corn field, fifty miles from where I wanted to be. So I bought a GPS. Named it Lulu. Lulu has my destination locked in her memory and shows me the perfect way to get there. It’s kind of nice. Lulu doesn’t make me stop to go to the bathroom, she never asks me what I am thinking and she too is always right. But sometimes I deliberately, or by accident, turn right when Lulu says left…or left when she says right. In those moments Lulu gently instructs me to make a U turn and get back on track. More often she simply says “recalculating.” Then she comes up with a whole new perfect plan for me. A new beginning from my current position. How cool is that! The destination remains the same… the journey getting there has been adjusted taking into account my diversion.

We have a lot to learn from Lulu. The path to success, in business, marriage, friendship, faith is NEVER, you heard it right, NEVER without misguided or intentional detours.
Every missile fired into space has its own GPS guiding it. Every missile goes astray, every single one. A computer is constantly recalculating and sending new commands, “correct one degree to the left.” Soon the missile is back on course….. but not for long. What looks like a flawless shot to the moon is actually a million little recalculations made along the way. The ability to recalculate gets the missile to where it is going. The same ability will get you where you want to go and where you are supposed to go.
We are extremely reluctant to accept “recalculating” as a pattern of success. We want to believe the journey will be seamless and without error. But it is those who accept failure as a reality, those who eagerly seek to learn from mistakes, those who are anxious to recalculate and get back on course, those are the people who reach the pinnacles of success.
• It took Thomas Edison thousands of failures and approximately 10,000 experiments to invent the electric light bulb. He knew how to recalculate.
• Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steam engine, failed so publicly that his creation was dubbed Fulton’s Folly. But he knew how to recalculate!
• Abraham Lincoln was defeated in several elections before he was elected as president of the United States. He didn’t give up! He recalculated, made adjustments changed the face of history.
Even God recalculates for us, why shouldn’t we? When we make a wrong turn in life He doesn’t ban us from making the journey. He just whispers, “recalculating” and redirects us, from where we find ourselves right now, to a NEW and PERFECT path to the right destination. (that would be grace, wouldn't it?)
Where are you right now?
Where do you want to be?
Recalculate!
You can get there from here!
I’d like to write more but I have to make a U-turn!
THE END OF THE E-MAIL


OH, happy Ramadan. Pres. Obama said last week that Muslims may built their Ground Zero Mosque. So a happy time all-round for Islam.


Forget about your lists and do what you can because that's all you can do. Phone up the people you miss and tell them you love them. Hug those close to you as hard as you can. Because you are always only a drunk driver's stupidity, a nervous shopkeeper's mistake, a doctor's best attempts and an old age away from forever.