I like happy stories and I like love stories.
Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson could be called a lot of things, and although happiness and love are a huge part of the book, they are not the first descriptive adjectives that come to mind.
It was downright depressing, yet very happy in its own way and had one incredible love story included. I'll let you read the book to form your own opinion; this is not my book report.
The book had many pages that I "doggie-eared" while reading and this is a little lesson I think everyone could, and should, benefit from hearing.
Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls-- family, health, friends, integrity-- are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered. And once you truly understand the lesson of the five balls, you will have the beginning of balance in your life.
(come to find, after a little research, this was a lesson given as a commencement address in 1996 by President and CEO of Coca-Cola)
What a great lesson for all of us.
Actually..... two lessons.
1. Be very careful with the things you're juggling, because sometimes you don't realize those things are fragile glass until they're dropped.
2. You, yourself, are a fragile glass ball and you better recognize and honor that about yourself before you allow somebody else to juggle you along with the other things in their life.
