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Last night I received an email from a friend that made me cry. His partner and love of his life past away 4 days earlier, and only now – after the funeral, he was sharing it with friends that are living abroad. He sent the following poem in his email, and I decided to post it on totally-useless.com for all those that have not read it as, yet.

The Dash Poem
by Linda Ellis

I read of a man who stood to speak
At the funeral of a friend
He referred to the dates on her tombstone
From the beginning to the end

He noted that first came the date of her birth
And spoke the following date with tears,
But he said what mattered most of all
Was the dash between those years

For that dash represents all the time
That she spent alive on earth.
And now only those who loved her
Know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not how much we own;
The cars, the house, the cash,
What matters is how we live and love
And how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hard.
Are there things you’d like to change?
For you never know how much time is left,
That can still be rearranged.

If we could just slow down enough
To consider what’s true and real
And always try to understand
The way other people feel.

And be less quick to anger,
And show appreciation more
And love the people in our lives
Like we’ve never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect,
And more often wear a smile
Remembering that this special dash
Might only last a little while.

So, when your eulogy is being read
With your life’s actions to rehash
Would you be proud of the things they say
About how you spent your dash?

The Dash poem has touched the lives of so many people, and perhaps it will touch yours too, and make you appreciate more your own dash…

After watching the Turkish movie on the TV news, taken in real time on the flotilla attacked by the Israeli’s – I felt so sorry and outraged for all these people trying to bring aid and goods in Gaza and died for it. Such an unnecessary violence against what? While 80% of the populace in Gaza rely on international help for everything, and are uneployed? Than I read the Yahoo News article in regards, and saw how many comments were left. One of these comments I found very appropriate and well said:

“If everyone cared, no body cried. If everyone loved and nobody lied. If everyone shared and swallowed their pride, we see the day nobody died” If only the whole world worked like that…

The sound of the cup beat sounds rather cool, so – it isn’t totally useless after all
Imagine being part of a band and everyone is using only kitchen supplies to create some cool music?

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While checking around for some useless stuff I came accross this funny and totally useless video, that I am sure you will enjoy as much as much as I did

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I stumbled on a Yahoo News story tonight about Karl Rebeder – a Millionaire – who gave all his money and properties to charities set up by himself. And you should go to read the post, and see the comments – many of which left me wondering again about our judgmental human nature – so totally useless… And how difficult it is for most to see the goodness in people when it’s due.

In all honesty – I’ve never seen money making anyone happy. However – the same is true for the statement he made to the Daily Telegraph:

“Money is counterproductive – it prevents happiness to come.”

I’ve always seen wealth and money as a way to be free and be able to live a satisfactory way of life. And this is different for everyone. Money cannot buy one a real love, nor happiness, or health. It could make life much easier than it is to live life while struggling to pay the bills and being unable to enjoy time with the people you love, and doing the things you love doing. I think, he meant to say that he is missing a “Real Purpose” in life that could make him happy, and that probably “less is more” for him at this stage of his life. Here you can read more about Karl Rebeder and this story.

Now I’d love to hear your opinion about this story, and do you agree with his statements. Stay always fabulous and happy!

Some keep calling us humans – animals, and when watching something like the following footage, I do agree with it. There is a big difference still between animals and us humans. The animals – do not have such atrocious rites to prove that they are mature! I couldn’t stop crying at first, and afterwards I felt ill for a while. And I kept wondering is there something that can be done besides for spreading the message on the Net? And it does no matter if these animals are dolphins, or pilot whales. They keep coming to this same island, and keep getting slaughtered year after year, and I wonder why? These are highly intelligent creatures, and aren’t they able to spread the word about the crazy humans that are proving their maturity by killing them in the most despicable ways?

And this video is even more awful…

And after you watched the video – do share it with friends and family if you please, and ask them to spread the word and do something about it. This is the same type of atrocity as the clubbing of baby seals in Canada, and I am ashamed that such shocking and barbaric rituals are allowed in Europe…