Cancel Your Credit Cards Before You Die
This sounds like as good advice as don't rent a casket when you die. It's not just the government... Be sure and cancel your credit cards before you die. This is priceless, and so easy to see happening, customer service being what it is today. A lady died this past January, and Citibank billed her for February and March for their annual service charges on her credit card, and then added late fees and interest on the monthly charge. The balance had been $0.00, now is somewhere around $60.00. A family member placed a call to Citibank:
Family Member: "I am calling to tell you that she died in January."
Citibank: "The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply." Family
Member: "Maybe you should turn it over to collections."
Citibank: "Since it is two months past due, it already has been."
Family Member: "So what will they do when they find out she is dead?"
Citibank: "Either report her account to the frauds division or report her to the credit bureau, maybe both!"
Family Member: "Do you think God will be mad at her?"
Citibank: "Excuse me?"
Family Member: "Did you just get what I was telling you - the part about her being dead?"
Citibank: "Sir, you'll have to speak to my supervisor." Supervisor gets on the phone: Family
Member: "I'm calling to tell you, she died in January."
Citibank: "The account was never closed and the late fees and charges still apply." Family
Member: "You mean you want to collect from her estate?" Citibank: "Are you her lawyer?"
Family Member: "No, I'm her great nephew." ( Lawyer no info given) Citibank: "Could you fax us a certificate of death?"
Family Member: "Sure." (Fax number is given) After they get the fax:
Citibank: "Our system just isn't set up for death. I don't know what more I can do to help."
Family Member: "Well, if you figure it out, great! If not, you could just keep billing her. I don't think she will care."
Citibank: "Well, the late fees and charges do still apply."
Family Member: "Would you like her new billing address?"
Citibank: "That might help."
Family Member: "Odessa Memorial Cemetery, Highway 129, Plot Number 69." Citibank: "Sir, that's a cemetery!"
Family Member: "What do you do with dead people on your planet?"
Citibank: MAKE THEM PAY !!
Friday, May 16, 2008
Monday, May 12, 2008
A Beautiful Poem
A beautiful poem written by a Father !!! TO MY CHILD
Just for this morning, I am going to smile when I see your face and laugh when I feel like crying. Just for this morning, I will let you choose what you want to wear,
and smile and say how perfect it is.
Just for this morning, I am going to step over the laundry and pick you up and take you to the park to play. Just for this morning, I will leave the dishes in the sink,
and let you teach me how to put that puzzle of yours together.
Just for this afternoon, I will unplug the telephone and keep the computer off,
and sit with you in the backyard and blow bubbles.
Just for this afternoon, I will not yell once, not even a tiny grumble when you scream and whine for the ice cream truck, and I will buy you one if he comes by.
Just for this afternoon, I won't worry about what you are going to be when you grow up,
or second guess every decision I have made where you are concerned.
Just for this afternoon, I will let you help me bake cookies,
and I won't stand over you trying to fix them..
Just for this afternoon, I will take us to McDonald's and buy us both a Happy Meal so you can have both toys.
Just for this evening, I will hold you in my arms and tell you a story about how you were born and how much I love you.
Just for this evening, I will let you splash in the tub and not get angry.
Just for this evening, I will let you stay up late while we sit on the porch and count all the stars.
Just for this evening, I will snuggle beside you for hours, and miss my favourite TV shows.
Just for this evening when I run my finger through your hair as you pray,
I will simply be grateful that God has given me the greatest gift ever given.
I will think about the mothers and fathers who are searching for their missing children, the mothers and fathers who are visiting their children's g raves instead of their bedrooms. The mothers and fathers who are in hospital rooms watching their children suffer senselessly and screaming inside that little body And when I kiss you goodnight I will hold you a little tighter, a little longer. It is then, that I will thank God for you, and ask him for nothing,
except One More Day......
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
WHAT DOES IT FEEL TO BE A HOUSE WIFE?
We all have often heard the term ‘house wife’- what does it mean in its truest form? Who has coined the term ‘house wife’? –
- does the term- house wife - say that the husband has the right to have another wife who is not a house wife, does it allow the husband to look for another wife to look after his desires and not only house. Does it allow a husband to have a girlfriend outside and not only a wife in the house? Does the term ‘house wife’ mean that the house wife is a legally enforced being on the husband by the society and not by choice, of either the husband or the wife.
Is a bride ever allowed to choose her groom? If there can be a house wife then why not a house husband- with similar meanings as for the house wife.
Can we men allow our wife’s the privilege of having another husband who is not a house husband? For how long are we going to exploit the fairer sex – at this I differ – how can a female be a fairer sex when she is the strongest. Only a woman can bear a child only a woman can give, she gives her body to her husband, she gives love to her children, care and concern for everybody around, she never asks nor takes. Only the strong can give. So if a woman always gives how does she become the fairer sex? In comparison with them we men are the weakest we need our lady by our side when we are scared we men want to hide in our lady’s arms when we want some peace. Has anybody ever heard of any woman not forgiving her man for cheating her, abusing her, and the worst; taking her for granted. Are women really difficult to understand? Or we simply do not want to understand just because she belongs to the fairer sex. Even today on this day and age of advanced technology and science we still have a different opinion on women. We men still find it difficult to accept the fact that women are at par with us and most of the time even does extremely well than us. Is it our insecurity or chauvinism that we still expect the wife to cook food, wash our clothes, and then please us in the bed? Can we ever think beyond all this? We always want from the wife. What have we given to her? We have been raised with the thought that we are superior to women, even the scriptures say that, the manusmriti too says that women are the cause of all the problems. Is this the reason that we consider women to be mere object of desire that we say we must protect her? In fact we men are so insecure that even when we are scared frightened we want our girl to be on our side (read bed). So how does the woman get the title of being the fairer sex, she always has given and still gives without a word of remorse. She gives all that she has and what does she get or expect in turn – but on the other she receives more torture, more abuse. The story of a woman is the same every where rural or urban it’s the same every where. Most surprisingly even the American constitution starts with ‘ All men are equal’ and NOT ‘All men and women are equal’ The woman labourer works all day to earn a meagre amount which she uses to buy food for the family and the man uses his money to buy some alcohol, his reason - he works soo hard!!!!!. Similarly the working woman of 21st century still has to worry about cooking food at home, washing clothes children’s education and so on. While the man would come home, wash, ask for tea, dinner and then expect her to satisfy him in bed – because he had a tough day in office. WHAT ABOUT THE LADY – DID SHE NOT HAVE A TOUGH DAY IN OFFICE? DID SHE NOT GO TO WORK? This itself proves that we men are the most insecure and to make us feel stronger we exploit and abuse the woman in our house. And hence we call her a HOUSE WIFE. Because we are much confident that she will never raise a word but accept every thing as fate. A FATE THAT WAS DESIGNED BY HER PREDECESSORS AND NOT BY HER EXISTENCE. No body is concerned about her feelings about her ideas. She has been nurtured as a commodity meant to be used. The ancient tradition of Devdasi’s, though now abolished, proves that. But still she is a Dasi and not Basi. Such that since her birth the parents start raising her as ‘Paraya Dhan’... – one that belongs to other and has to be given away some day to the rightful owner – decided by her parents. In short she is raised as a liability. The woman has always been treated as a liability, firstly by her parents then her husband. The parents decide for her then the husband decides and then the children decide. WHAT ABOUT THE WOMAN DOES SHE HAVE A MIND OF HER OWN? OR WE MEN DO NOT WANT TO ACCEPT THAT?
Consider this – the husband goes off to work – has a tough day in office – returns home tired. The wife is all day home – made breakfast – washed clothes – cooked lunch – cleaned the house - the wife is tired.
The husband enters throws his bag on the couch and himself too in it – orders for tea – removes shoes and throws them around house – the wife serves tea smiles and places the shoes on the shoe rack and sits next to the husband – the husband ignores her – gets up goes for a shower – returns – reads the news paper - eats dinner goes to bed – the wife cleans up the utensils and enters the bedroom – the husband starts his action – the wife says she does not want to but just wants to cuddle up – the husband ignores and forces himself - the wife gives in - WHY? - does she too want it or it is the best way to keep away a beast. Or only to make her husband happy BECAUSE he had a tough day in office. WHAT about her day? Did she not work? If she did not work then who cooked food, washed clothes, cleaned house??????????? When will the husband realise that he has married a human being with a soul and not a machine. This may not be the case for many but few. But true, circumstances may differ but a woman is still considered an object of lust.
If the man and wife both are working even then it is the wife who is concerned with housekeeping, cooking food washing clothes etc and then making him happy whether she wants or not. Does a man ever realise that she has faked orgasm. Or is it just penetration that is all that matters to him. If that is the cases then why marry, there are many available on hire. Why spoil a life? Is it to have the feeling of ownership; men always love to own. - hence are always losers in love......
We all have often heard the term ‘house wife’- what does it mean in its truest form? Who has coined the term ‘house wife’? –
- does the term- house wife - say that the husband has the right to have another wife who is not a house wife, does it allow the husband to look for another wife to look after his desires and not only house. Does it allow a husband to have a girlfriend outside and not only a wife in the house? Does the term ‘house wife’ mean that the house wife is a legally enforced being on the husband by the society and not by choice, of either the husband or the wife.
Is a bride ever allowed to choose her groom? If there can be a house wife then why not a house husband- with similar meanings as for the house wife.
Can we men allow our wife’s the privilege of having another husband who is not a house husband? For how long are we going to exploit the fairer sex – at this I differ – how can a female be a fairer sex when she is the strongest. Only a woman can bear a child only a woman can give, she gives her body to her husband, she gives love to her children, care and concern for everybody around, she never asks nor takes. Only the strong can give. So if a woman always gives how does she become the fairer sex? In comparison with them we men are the weakest we need our lady by our side when we are scared we men want to hide in our lady’s arms when we want some peace. Has anybody ever heard of any woman not forgiving her man for cheating her, abusing her, and the worst; taking her for granted. Are women really difficult to understand? Or we simply do not want to understand just because she belongs to the fairer sex. Even today on this day and age of advanced technology and science we still have a different opinion on women. We men still find it difficult to accept the fact that women are at par with us and most of the time even does extremely well than us. Is it our insecurity or chauvinism that we still expect the wife to cook food, wash our clothes, and then please us in the bed? Can we ever think beyond all this? We always want from the wife. What have we given to her? We have been raised with the thought that we are superior to women, even the scriptures say that, the manusmriti too says that women are the cause of all the problems. Is this the reason that we consider women to be mere object of desire that we say we must protect her? In fact we men are so insecure that even when we are scared frightened we want our girl to be on our side (read bed). So how does the woman get the title of being the fairer sex, she always has given and still gives without a word of remorse. She gives all that she has and what does she get or expect in turn – but on the other she receives more torture, more abuse. The story of a woman is the same every where rural or urban it’s the same every where. Most surprisingly even the American constitution starts with ‘ All men are equal’ and NOT ‘All men and women are equal’ The woman labourer works all day to earn a meagre amount which she uses to buy food for the family and the man uses his money to buy some alcohol, his reason - he works soo hard!!!!!. Similarly the working woman of 21st century still has to worry about cooking food at home, washing clothes children’s education and so on. While the man would come home, wash, ask for tea, dinner and then expect her to satisfy him in bed – because he had a tough day in office. WHAT ABOUT THE LADY – DID SHE NOT HAVE A TOUGH DAY IN OFFICE? DID SHE NOT GO TO WORK? This itself proves that we men are the most insecure and to make us feel stronger we exploit and abuse the woman in our house. And hence we call her a HOUSE WIFE. Because we are much confident that she will never raise a word but accept every thing as fate. A FATE THAT WAS DESIGNED BY HER PREDECESSORS AND NOT BY HER EXISTENCE. No body is concerned about her feelings about her ideas. She has been nurtured as a commodity meant to be used. The ancient tradition of Devdasi’s, though now abolished, proves that. But still she is a Dasi and not Basi. Such that since her birth the parents start raising her as ‘Paraya Dhan’... – one that belongs to other and has to be given away some day to the rightful owner – decided by her parents. In short she is raised as a liability. The woman has always been treated as a liability, firstly by her parents then her husband. The parents decide for her then the husband decides and then the children decide. WHAT ABOUT THE WOMAN DOES SHE HAVE A MIND OF HER OWN? OR WE MEN DO NOT WANT TO ACCEPT THAT?
Consider this – the husband goes off to work – has a tough day in office – returns home tired. The wife is all day home – made breakfast – washed clothes – cooked lunch – cleaned the house - the wife is tired.
The husband enters throws his bag on the couch and himself too in it – orders for tea – removes shoes and throws them around house – the wife serves tea smiles and places the shoes on the shoe rack and sits next to the husband – the husband ignores her – gets up goes for a shower – returns – reads the news paper - eats dinner goes to bed – the wife cleans up the utensils and enters the bedroom – the husband starts his action – the wife says she does not want to but just wants to cuddle up – the husband ignores and forces himself - the wife gives in - WHY? - does she too want it or it is the best way to keep away a beast. Or only to make her husband happy BECAUSE he had a tough day in office. WHAT about her day? Did she not work? If she did not work then who cooked food, washed clothes, cleaned house??????????? When will the husband realise that he has married a human being with a soul and not a machine. This may not be the case for many but few. But true, circumstances may differ but a woman is still considered an object of lust.
If the man and wife both are working even then it is the wife who is concerned with housekeeping, cooking food washing clothes etc and then making him happy whether she wants or not. Does a man ever realise that she has faked orgasm. Or is it just penetration that is all that matters to him. If that is the cases then why marry, there are many available on hire. Why spoil a life? Is it to have the feeling of ownership; men always love to own. - hence are always losers in love......
Monday, May 5, 2008
I AM ...
Some lines from me … do you connect or agree with the same…????
We forget that a shortcut never leads to happiness but brings more problems in future. By taking a shortcut we overlook many trivial but important things that need attention at that particular moment, we refuse to face reality, but as we are in a hurry to finish the job we overlook it and then crib later on. Whether or not we love the job and want to do it or not is not the concern. We accept it and then after a while start taking it as an extra baggage that has become a burden for us and still we do not want to discard it, because that would project us in negative. No body is willing to take the longest path. You might say, if there are shortcuts why one should take the longest path. True, there is absolutely no need to take the longest path if shortcuts are available but at the same one must be prepared to wait to have patience. At the same one must know the limit of being patient. Patience is like an elastic string, the more it is stretched the faster it returns back to its normal position. That is the characteristic of elastic. BUT if the elastic is stretched beyond a limit it does not return to its normal position and may break, the elastic string may rip, thus spoil everything and then it cannot be used even as a string. And this may happen to every thing - life, relationship, family, career etc and all such things or actions that is done by force or made to do forcibly.
We tend to go on stretching things beyond a limit and then it breaks. We are just not prepared to jump out of the box and prevent the elastic string of life from breaking. On the other we tend to stretch it further. It is not about quitting or accepting defeat but one must know when to give up, when to let go. Our ego prevents us from giving up. Our ego says that giving up means accepting defeat and our lower self-esteem says that we are being selfish. It is not about accepting defeat or being selfish but our decision for a better life for us and the other. It means ‘AHAM BRAMHA ASMI – I am the universe’. And every individual has the right to say so. By believing in AHAM BRAMHA ASMI – we say I AM I WILL…. TOGETHER WE WILL. Aham Bramha Asmi is not – I, ME, MYSELF… but WE, US. The whole universe is made up by US and not me alone. If every individual believes that he/she is alone will automatically create US, WE. That is THE POWER OF ONE. So the ego must be separated from our lives. At the same removing ego from our lives does not mean to give up self-respect. One must not allow anybody to take him/her for granted. I may not be doing any thing constructive for the other similarly the other may not be doing any thing constructive as per my view. Hence I say – value others time if you want others to value your time.
We forget that a shortcut never leads to happiness but brings more problems in future. By taking a shortcut we overlook many trivial but important things that need attention at that particular moment, we refuse to face reality, but as we are in a hurry to finish the job we overlook it and then crib later on. Whether or not we love the job and want to do it or not is not the concern. We accept it and then after a while start taking it as an extra baggage that has become a burden for us and still we do not want to discard it, because that would project us in negative. No body is willing to take the longest path. You might say, if there are shortcuts why one should take the longest path. True, there is absolutely no need to take the longest path if shortcuts are available but at the same one must be prepared to wait to have patience. At the same one must know the limit of being patient. Patience is like an elastic string, the more it is stretched the faster it returns back to its normal position. That is the characteristic of elastic. BUT if the elastic is stretched beyond a limit it does not return to its normal position and may break, the elastic string may rip, thus spoil everything and then it cannot be used even as a string. And this may happen to every thing - life, relationship, family, career etc and all such things or actions that is done by force or made to do forcibly.
We tend to go on stretching things beyond a limit and then it breaks. We are just not prepared to jump out of the box and prevent the elastic string of life from breaking. On the other we tend to stretch it further. It is not about quitting or accepting defeat but one must know when to give up, when to let go. Our ego prevents us from giving up. Our ego says that giving up means accepting defeat and our lower self-esteem says that we are being selfish. It is not about accepting defeat or being selfish but our decision for a better life for us and the other. It means ‘AHAM BRAMHA ASMI – I am the universe’. And every individual has the right to say so. By believing in AHAM BRAMHA ASMI – we say I AM I WILL…. TOGETHER WE WILL. Aham Bramha Asmi is not – I, ME, MYSELF… but WE, US. The whole universe is made up by US and not me alone. If every individual believes that he/she is alone will automatically create US, WE. That is THE POWER OF ONE. So the ego must be separated from our lives. At the same removing ego from our lives does not mean to give up self-respect. One must not allow anybody to take him/her for granted. I may not be doing any thing constructive for the other similarly the other may not be doing any thing constructive as per my view. Hence I say – value others time if you want others to value your time.
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