My days seem endless
without you here by my side.
When you were taken away so suddenly,
I had to stop... and I cried!

Everyday at three o'clock, the bus rides by our house.
I am waiting for the front door
to fly wide open and get a kiss and a hug from you,
but that never happens anymore.

Everything we shared, all the moments where we cared
were taken away so suddenly- we had a bond that will never break,
and when God took you away...
he made a big mistake.

He took the wrong sweet girl.
I miss you every second of the day
and when I want to see you,
I have to bow my head and pray.

I pray for a sense of peace,
and I pray for a better day,
but right now it seems like that
better day will never come again.

I try to be stong for everyone,
but that just can't be done.
I am still grieving, and I am stunned.

I wish we could be together, but in some ways we are,
like in our minds and in our hearts.
As I look at your picture I have to ask why,
you were only sixteen years old, not willing to die.

You had your whole life ahead of you,
planning your future out,
I will be by your side forever
I've never missed a day.

Although your life has ended,
my love for you
will never grow short,
it's here to stay.

When something like this happens
lives are changed forever,
but I know, in my heart, we will always be together.
I miss you, my angel .

The cicada, the praying mantis and 

the sparrow

The prince of Wu decided to attack the state of Chu. He gave a stern warning to his subjects that anyone who raised objections would be put to death.

One of his stewards wanted to protest, but dared not. Instead, he took a catapult and pellets and wandered in the back courtyeard until his clothes were wet with dew. He did this for three mornings. 

Come here, ordered the prince. " What are you doing to make your clothes wet with dew ?"

" There is a tree in the garden, " replied the steward, and on it there is a cicada. This cicada perches up there, chirping away and drinking the dew, not knowing that there is a praying mantis behind it. And the praying mantis leans forward, raising its forelegs to catch the cicada, not knowing that there is a sparrow beside it. The sparrow, again, cranes its neck to peck at the praying mantis, not knowing that there is someone with a catapult waiting below. These three small creatures are so eager to profit by something directly in front of them that they fail to realize the danger behind.

" Well said, " replied the prince and he gave up his plan of invasion.

The Wrong Direction

The Prince of Wei decided to invade Hantan, the capital of the state of Chao. Although Chi-liang was on a journey when he heard this, he turned back at once and, without waiting to smooth his crumpled garments or brush the dust from his head, went to see the king.

" On my way back,"  he said, I came across a man at Taihang Mountain, who was riding northwards. He told me he was going to the state of Chu.

" In that case, why are you heading north" ? I asked him.

" That's all right," he replied. I have good horses.

Your horses may be good, but you're taking the wrong direction.

Well, I have plenty of money.

You may have plenty of money, but this is the wrong direction.

Well, I have an excellent charioteer.

" The better your horses,"  I told him, " the more money you have and the more skilled your charioteer, the further you will get from the state of Chu."

The Frog in the Well       داستان قورباغه و لاك پشت

There was a frog that lived in a shallow well.

" Look how well off I am here ! " he told a big turtle from the Eastern Ocean. " I can hop along the coping of the well when I go out, and rest by a crevice in the bricks on my return. I can wallow to my heart's content with only my head above water, or stroll ankle deep through soft mud. No crabs or tadpoles can compare with me. I am master of the water and lord of this shallow well, What more can  a fellow ask ? Why don't you come here more often to have a good time ? "

Before the turtle from the Eastern Ocean could get his left foot into the well, however, he caught his right calw on something. So he halted and stepped back then began to describe the ocean to the frog.

" It's more than a thousand miles across and more than ten thousand feet deep. In ancient times there were floods nine years out of ten yet the water in the ocean never increased.

And later there were droughts seven years out of eight yet the water in the ocean never grew less. It has remained quite constant throughtout the ages. That is why I like to live in the Eastern Ocean. " 

Then the frog in the shallow well was silent and felt a little abashed.

A Big Decision تصمیم بزرگ

A six-year-old boy walked up to his father one day and announced, 'Daddy, I'd like to get married.'

A Wife's Duty   وظایف یک زن در قبال همسرش

A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office. After his checkup , the doctor called the wife into his office alone. He told her, "Your husband is suffering from a very severe disease, combined with horrible stress . If you don't do the following , your husband will surely die...Each morning, fix him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant , and make sure he is in a good mood . For lunch make him a nutritious meal. For dinner prepare an especially nice meal for him. Don't burden him with chores , as he probably had a hard day. Don't discuss your problems with him, it will only make his stress worse . And most importantly, make love with your husband several times a week and satisfy his every whim . If you can do this for the next 10 months to a year, I think your husband will regain his health completely."  On the way home, the husband asked his wife. "What did the doctor say?"  She replied, "You're going to die"!

The Butcher and the Lawyer    داستان قصاب و وكيل

A lawyer's dog, running about unleashed, beelines for a butcher shop and steals a roast. The butcher goes to the lawyer's office and asks, "If a dog running unleashed steals a piece of meat from my store, do I have a right to demand payment for the meat from the dog's owner?" The lawyer answers, "Absolutely." "Then you owe me $12.50. Your dog was loose and stole a roast from me today." The lawyer, without a word, writes the butcher a check for $12.50. A few days later the butcher receives a letter from the lawyer: "$45 due for consultation".  

Gray Hairs 

One day, a little girl was sitting and watching her mother do the dishes at the kitchen sink. She suddenly noticed that her mother had several strands of white hair sticking out in contrast to her brunette hair. She looked at her mother and inquisitively asked, "Why are some of your hairs white, Mom?" Her mother replied "Well, every time that you do something wrong and make me cry or unhappy, one of my hairs turns white." The little girl thought about this revelation for a while and then asked, "Mom, how come all of grandma's hairs are white?"