What Goes around...

[Nick]

Parmenion,

I enjoyed that story, and had no idea of those facts. It really is true that our acts and ommissions impact everyone, ourselves included. Sometimes a word or deed may affect someone in such a profound way, that it is something they carry with them their whole life.

Very best,

[Squeek]

But of course.  Every read the story "The monkey's paw"?  It kinda relates, and it's sick, which makes it awesome

Basically, the monkey's paw gives the owner 3 wishes.  The man first wishes for 1,000,000 dollars.  He gets it, but he gets it by his own son's death (caught in a meat grinding machine), which was insured for 1,000,000 dollars.  The man then wishes for eternal life, and gets it.  Unfortunately, he goes to jail and is sentences for life.  The woman, feeling all alone, wishes her son were back alive, and the story ends with him knocking on the door, still bloodied and cut up from the meat grinder .  

All things come at a price is the lesson here, but it relates.  No really.  Seriously.

~Squeek

[beav31is]

wish for eternal life... that would suck to be stuck here that long

[Squeek]

Yea, that's the irony!

~Squeek

[Parmenion]

Thats very true Nick.

I think that's a great quote at the end too. I'd like to know who wrote it.

Take care, Dave

[Parmenion]

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

 The next day a fancy carriage pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy that Farmer Fleming had saved. "I want to repay you," said the nobleman, "You saved my son's life."

 "No, I can't accept payment for what I did," The Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer.

 At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel. "Is that your son?" the nobleman asked. "Yes," the farmer replied proudly.
"I'll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good education. If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be proud of." And that he did.

 In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St.Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillan.

 Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What saved him? Penicillan. The name of this nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir Winston Churchill.

 Someone once said: What goes around comes around. Work like you dont need the money. Sing like nobody's listening. Dance like theres no-one watching, and love like you've never been hurt.

  - from "The Rest of the Story" by Paul Harvey