DAILY POSITIVE IMPACT – 87 YEAR OLD COLLEGE GRADUATE INSPIRES YOUNGER STUDENTS
On the first day of school our professor challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t already know.
I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being.
She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old.
Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked.
She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids. Seriously, I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!”
Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk nonstop.
Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She was living it up.
At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium.
As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. “I’m sorry I’m so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me!”
As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You’ve got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.
The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do.”
At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree. One week after graduation she died peacefully in her sleep.
Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught we don’t make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
FROM: Daily Dose Of Kindness – kinddose.com
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The focus of my Daily Positive Impact posts is captured in many studies: In the 2016 article, “POSITIVE EMOTIONS AND WELLBEING,” by Marianna Pogosyan, Ph.D. she wrote, “The health benefits of positive emotions is well documented. They improve physical health. With frequent experience and expression of positive emotions comes resilience and resourcefulness.”
I hope to energize readers to take their own actions to make our world a better place. If you are already there, thanks!!
Have a healthy and impactful life, Peter Prichard CMF
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