Yes, I guess so. You’d laugh all the way to your Bank and still be laughing all the way back to your home.

Yes, you’d laugh so much that you’d finally be confined in a mental asylum had you not read about this Canadian couple who won that amount and gave it all away, almost.

Excerpts:

“What you’ve never had, you never miss,” 78-year-old Violet Large explained to a local reporter.

and….

“That money that we won was nothing,” her tearful husband, Allen, told Patricia Brooks Arenburg of the Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald. “We have each other.”

You may read the entire story H E R E.

What would I have done had I won USD11.3 Million?

I will let you know AFTER I have won any money. LOL!

I read this explanation…

Well…. let me ask you one thing, can you explain why you love someone? you may be able to tell them what it is that you love about them, but what you love about them and why you love them are two different things, personally, I find that I can’t explain why I love the person, I just do, now what I love about them are; their personality, their smile, their kind heartedness, and so on, I could go on for ever, but when you are in doubt, ask yourself this one question, “Why do i love him?”…. if the question comes to you QUICKLY, then you are not in love, if you have no idea, and feel confusion, but certainty at the same time, you may be in love.

When you can just look into each others eyes and know exactly what they are thinking, that is how I know I love the person that I do, and how I know he loves me, and when you love someone, it should be necessary to say “I love you” all the time, it may be nice to hear, but say it when you think the time is right, and it will be much more worth it.

And there was so much more that followed it. Just too long for this article.

Then comes the the perennial question, How do you know that it is Love (in the first place)?

And I found this…

1. When, at the beginning of the day, you are already filled with thoughts of the other person: what he/she is doing, how he/she looks, what you could do to make him/her smile today… when something good or nice happens to you, you always think of how you must share this with him/her, be it a funny story or a moment of your triumph. You always wish that he/she would be right there with you, but even if he/she isn’t, it’s okay because you know that soon you will be together and you anticipate that. No moment, no matter how dull it seems like simply watching TV together, is ever a wasted moment. Every minute counts when you’re with that person.

And much more that followed after Number 1.

What do you think is this confounded thing, called Love?

As a young teen, I recall having seen a wood engraving that displayed these words against an image of a barefoot man…

“I thought I had no shoes
Until I met a man
Who had no feet”

I learned something from that wood carving.

Today, decades later, those same words raced across my mind. I was asked to mind my Computer Shop while my wife had to be away for an errand. As she left the shop, she told me to help one of her students.

And as she walked out, she turned round and told me that this student although he is 26 years old, he had the mental response of a boy of 12 years of age. “Just be patient with him”, she said as she walked away, “and show him how to use the Internet Browser”.

Hmmm, so I walked over to the guy, sat beside him and watched him. He had a peaceful composure, smiled most of the time as he tried to make progress at his Browser. I helped him whenever he seemed lost and even when he was in that lost state, he was smiling gently.

Soft spoken and somewhat unsure about what he was doing, he had this small notebook that he kept referring to read his handwritten notes from previous lessons. I kept watching him. He did not seem perturbed or impatient by his inability to repeat how it is done correctly.

His father appeared later at the shop. I thought he was a drop-in customer and realized that he was not a customer when he sat nearby his son. The father facial features bore testimony to the years of burden caring for his son. He never smiled and had an expressionless look on his face.

I started to analyze the mystery of suffering and I learned something valuable from this student. He was innocently oblivious to what would naturally drive a normal thinking person to the ground.

This student, I think, would walk through a hail of gunfire without a care and come out at the other end, alive – even with a smile on his face. His father obviously might not and probably die from fright without ever being hit by a bullet.

It is several hours since that incident today and I am still reminiscing about it. Something really precious that this student taught me.

I Believe…
That just because two people argue,
It doesn’t mean they don’t love each other.
And just because they don’t argue,
It doesn’t mean they do love each other.

I Believe…
That we don’t have to change friends if
We understand that friends change.

I Believe….
That no matter how good a friend is,
they’re going to hurt you every once in a while
and you must forgive them for that.

I Believe…
That true friendship continues to grow,
even over the longest distance.
Same goes for true love.

I Believe…
That you can do something in an instant
That will give you heartache for life.

I Believe….
That it’s taking me a long time
To become the person I want to be.

I Believe…
That you should always leave loved ones with
Loving words. It may be the last time you see them.

I Believe….
That you can keep going long after you think you can’t.

I Believe….
That we are responsible for what
We do, no matter how we feel.

I Believe…
That either you control your attitude or it controls you.

I Believe…
That heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs
to be done, regardless of the consequences.

I Believe…..
That my best friend and I can do anything or nothing and have the best time.

I Believe….
That sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you’re down
will be the ones to help you get back up.

I Believe…
That sometimes when I’m angry
I have the right to be angry,
But that doesn’t give me the right to be cruel.

I Believe….
That maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you’ve had
And what you’ve learned from them and less to do with how many
birthdays you’ve celebrated.

I Believe….
That it isn’t always enough,
to be forgiven by others.
Sometimes, you have to learn to forgive yourself.

I Believe…
That no matter how bad your heart is broken
the world doesn’t stop for your grief.

I Believe….
That our background and circumstances
may have influenced who we are,
But, we are responsible for who we become.

I Believe…
That you shouldn’t be so eager to find
Out a secret. It could change your life Forever.

I Believe….
Two people can look at the exact same
Thing and see something totally different.

I Believe…
That your life can be changed in a matter of
Hours by people who don’t even know you.

I Believe…..
That even when you think you have no more to give,
When a friend cries out to you -
you will find the strength to help.

I Believe…
That credentials on the wall
do not make you a decent human being.