I received this in my e-mail... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! "WHO I AM MAKES A DIFFERENCE A teacher in New York decided to honor each of her seniors in high school by telling them the difference they each made. She called each student to the front of the class, one at a time. First she told each of them how they had made a difference to her and the class. Then she presented each of them with a blue ribbon imprinted with gold letters, which read, "Who I Am Makes a Difference." Afterwards the teacher decided to do a class project to see what kind of impact recognition would have on a community. She gave each of the students three more ribbons and instructed them to go out and spread this acknowledgment ceremony. Then they were to follow up on the results, see who honored whom and report back to the class in about a week. One of the boys in the class went to a junior executive in a nearby company and honored him for helping him with his career planning. He gave him a blue ribbon and put it on his shirt. Then he gave him two extra ribbons and said, "We're doing a class project on recognition, and we'd like you to go out find somebody to honor, give them a blue ribbon, then give them the extra blue ribbon so they can acknowledge a third person to keep this acknowledgment ceremony going. Then please report back to me and tell me what happened." Later that day the junior executive went in to see his boss, who had been noted, by the way, as being kind of a grouchy fellow. He sat his boss down and he told him that he deeply admired him for being a creative genius. The boss seemed very surprised. The junior executive asked him if he would accept the gift of the blue ribbon and would he give him permission to put it on him. His surprised boss said, "Well, sure." The junior executive took the blue ribbon and placed it right on his boss's jacket above his heart. As he gave him the last extra ribbon, he said, "Would you do me a favor? Would you take this extra ribbon and pass it on by honoring somebody else? The young boy who first gave me the ribbons is doing a project in school and we want to keep this recognition ceremony going and find out how it affects people." That night the boss came home to his 14-year-old son and sat him down. He said, "The most incredible thing happened to me today. I was in my office and one of the junior executives came in and told me he admired me and gave me a blue ribbon for being a creative genius. Imagine. He thinks I'm a creative genius. Then he put this blue ribbon that says: "Who I Am Makes a Difference, on my jacket above my heart. He gave me an extra ribbon and asked me to find somebody else to honor. As I was driving home tonight, I started thinking about whom I would honor with this ribbon and I thought about you. I want to honor you. My days are really hectic and when I come home I don't pay a lot of attention to you. Sometimes I scream at you for not getting good enough grades in school and for your bedroom being a mess, but somehow tonight, I just wanted to sit here and, well, just let you know that you do make a difference to me. Besides your mother, you are the most important person in my life. You're a great kid and I love you!" The startled boy started to sob and sob, and he couldn't stop crying. His whole body shook. He looked up at his father and said through his tears, "Dad, earlier tonight I sat in my room and wrote a letter to you and Mom explaining why I had killed myself and asking you to forgive me. I was going to commit suicide tonight after you were asleep. I just didn't think that you cared at all. The letter is upstairs. I don't think I need it after all." His father walked upstairs and found a heartfelt letter full of anguish and pain. The envelope was addressed, "Mom and Dad." The boss went back to work a changed man. He was no longer a grouch but made sure to let all his employees know that they made a difference. The junior executive helped several other young people with career planning and never forgot to let them know that they made a difference in his life...one being the boss's son. And the young boy and his classmates learned a valuable lesson. Who you are DOES make difference. You are under no obligation to send this on to anyone...not to two people or to two hundred. As far as I am concerned, you can delete it and move on to the next message. But if, you have anyone who means a lot to you, I encourage you to send him or her this message and let them know. You never know what kind of difference a little encouragement can make to a person. Send it to all of the people who mean anything important to you, or send it to the one, two, or three people who mean the most. Or just smile and know that someone thinks that you are important, or you wouldn't have received this in the first place. Remember that! I give you a blue ribbon. WHO YOU ARE MAKES A DIFFERENCE, AND I WANTED YOU TO KNOW THAT!!" Love, Nelson
TS Hey, I got the same email. I thought it was pretty cool. Take care Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Sounds like a great made-for-tv-movie is in the works. I'm thinking the skipper from Gilligan's Island should play the grouchy guy from work, and when he finds out that his son wants to commit suicide he should say 'Oh it's alright, little buddy.'
I wish somone would send depressing Catallus poems as spam. Like: My woman says to me that there is none With whom she'd rather spend her days than I, Should even Jove himself ask her to wed. So she says, but women often lie, And loving words they speak ought to be written In rapid winds and water flowing by.
That's strange porfiry, maybe a nice blue ribbon would cheer you up. I don't feel nauseated, in fact I was ready to cry my eyes out all over my keyboard and electrify myself, with glee I might add, stupid, happy glee, because gosh darnit now that I've read that I really do make a difference I feel like inducing a painful electric shock. I am horrified, in fact so much that I have just lost my monacle.
Tsk tsk tsk, Porfiry... You make SUCH a difference in our lives! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Group hug time! I've known the huge difference i make ever since i got laid by the tooth fairy when i was 16, and most of the children who'd put their just-pulled tooth under their pillow that night woke up with the tooth still there the next morning. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Yeah I was wondering why I woke up this morning with several rashes on my genitals, I have no idea why, but just last night I had laid down one of my teeth but also thought to myself 'hmm I should buy more condoms, I just ran out, because I like to have a lot of fun with my eight or nine girlfriends.' Sarcasm here. Wow, lykan, we have really messed up this thread. Congratulations!
Was she good? Absolutely -- fairy dust was going everywhere. And i was glad when she didn't drag her teeth, as i wasn't too sure about that given her career and all. But alas, Santa was more of a nympho, when we took that weekend get-away down to the Bahamas last year. Ho ho ho...
Yeah... fantastic... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! 'Thanks' folks... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I used to think that the world can be fixed but now I start to doubt... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Love (as usual...), Nelson
What, Nelson? We're just discussing whether the Tooth Fairy is good in bed! What's wrong with that? It's a nice way to unwind after a really bad week. Prude. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Thanks for sharing that email, TruthSeeker. It's a good one, i've received it before too, though it's been a while. <X-files theme fades in and then fades out>
its like that movie, "pay it forward" where the kid dies at the end Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
I think Lykan is nuts. I really have to respect that. And wouldn't the tooth fairy have to be good in bed? All fairies are. I thought everyone knew that!Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Hey, just kidding.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Don't worry Porify you're not the only one that's nauseated....:bugeye: Sounds like a "pay it forward" wannabe thang....except the boys life is saved instead of the boy dieing... Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
