12 days to go.......Words.....Hawaiian Rules

How many junk e-mails do we get with various lessons for life, mottoes (mottos?), messages of hope; on the promise that if we send it on to fifty one people (no more, no less) then something earth-shatteringly incredible will happen every single day for the rest of your life? It does make me laugh when I receive on, and look at the distribution list to discover I am one of....let me see, now.....what a coincidence!!.....fifty one e-mail addresses. I suppose people think that it's all rubbish, but they don't want to take any chances! Anyway that's not the point (there's a point, now that WOULD be a first!....get to it then Blaydon....); not once in those numerous e-mails that come bounding into my inbox (and may I say for the record rarely bounce back out again, unless it is genuinely good) did I see the list of 'Hawaiian Rules'.

Now I have no idea whether these are indeed the law in the aloha state, or indeed whether the list was indeed put together by a Hawaiian and not a 55 year old accountant from Bangor (it could happen!); but when I received them from a friend of mine who shall remain Wee-Ali nameless they have adorned my fridge door ever since. I love them!

In the space of these ten, sun-drenched commandments; my thoughts are provoked, my soul is comforted, and I am smiling. Wherever they came from, there are certainly lessons to be learned here; and what good is a lesson if it isn't shared.......

•  Never judge a day by the weather
• The best things in life aren't things
• Tell the truth; there's less to remember
• Speak softly, and wear a loud shirt
• Goals are deceptive - the unaimed arrow never misses
• He who dies with the most toys, still dies
• Age is relative; when you're over the hill, you pick up speed
• There are two ways to be rich; make more, or want less
• Beauty is internal - looks mean nothing
• No rain-no rainbows

One can't help feeling that our lives, and the world would be so much better if we could all adhere to these simple instructions.......