This date is significant to many people, especially the Chinese. Eight is supposed to be a lucky number, for some religions as well. The Summer Olympics in Beijing starts today. My friend, Arliin, told me on several occasions that her 30th anniversary with her employer (a major Canadian bank) would be August 8, 2008. She was looking forward to it, and we joked on New Year’s Day — our last time together — that it was now her lucky year. But she never made it to 08/08/08, she died of unknown causes sometime in the early hours of January 3, 2008. Whether you’re superstitious or not, don’t put off living or wait for your ship to come in or hold out for your day in the sun. [Stop buying lottery tickets!] There is beauty and life even under clouds. Make each day count, even the grey ones.
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Good advice but sometimes hard to take.
Ah the Chinese and their crazy of love of the number 8.
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” — Buddha
Good advice but sometimes hard to take.
It’s usually hard to take. And advice usually given when it’s the hardest to take. I’m reluctant to dispense pithy advice here, but I do it to remind myself, too.
I posted this photo because Georges kept apologising about the weather, but I wanted to prove to him that I can take photos in any weather. It can’t be sunshine all the time, and yes it’s a challenge to shoot in grey weather but you can always find something interesting.
Anf, the love of the number 8 is especially evident in Vancouver, where you will often see two addresses for one property, one of the addresses incorporating as many ‘8’s as possible. And phone numbers! Yeesh, just try getting one with an 8 in it… and custom automobile license plates with 8s? Forget it!
What a pity people have to be so superstitious. Why make life easy when you can complicate it with all that nonsens. I like 39. That’s when I stopped counting my age. Ha-ha.
[...] I guess I’ll jump on the bandwagon (Gail posted about it, Neesa just emailed me about it) and mention that today is indeed [...]
Great advice Gail
And for some reason today just feels extra special for me too
Plus just 8 weeks to the wedding
Can I Live *and* keep buying lotto tickets? It wouldn’t hurt if that ship came in you know…
Thanks for the kind words. They are heartwarming as I attend another cousin’s funeral today.