Sunday 27 May 2018
That's Life
80 years ago, on 1st June 1938 a man was walking through Paris when a branch fell from a tree and killed him. The man, Odin Von Horvath, was a Hungarian and the author of the play Tales from the Vienna Woods. He had emigrated to Paris from Vienna to escape the Nazi occupation of Austria. He was 37.
In this life you never know what is waiting for you around the next corner.
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Very true Gwil, so make the most of every day.
ReplyDeleteThank you. Your wisdom is more precious than rubies.
DeleteSo true. My son is an ambulance volonteer of the "Croce Verde", he tells me that there are more accidents in places considered safe, like, for example, ones own home.
ReplyDeleteGreetings Maria x
I just read a story about 5 people being attacked by a crazy Rottweiler at the main train station in Munich. Thankfully not something that happens every day. An Austrian man won something like 45 million euro on the lottery about a month ago.
DeleteGolfer Lee Trevino was struck by lightning 5 times I think. When I was young I used to be a glutton for a series called Ripley's Believe it or Not. I expect it's on the internet these days. Well, I've even revived my own curiosity! Ciao, Maria.
So true. It really came home to me in August last year when I woke up in the morning to find my doors all open and Peter had left in the night. No warning, no change of behaviour, nothing. Just gone. If somebody had asked me could this happen to you I would save said no, of course not. But it did. I have never recovered from it.
ReplyDeleteLife is like that. It's like the song says " . . . pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again." It's what we have to do sometimes. I did, and ended up here. Best thing that ever happened to me. At first it felt a bit like learning to swim. But now I wouldn't change a thing.
DeleteQuite right too.
DeleteThanks.
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