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  I Want To Go Back To The Time When INNOCENCE Was NATURAL, Not FAKE. When GETTING HIGH Meant On A SWING, Not PROMOTIONS. When DRINKING Meant RASNA ORANGE, Not BEERS Or WHISKEYS . When DAD Was The Only HERO, Not  Amitabh Or Sallu . When LOVE Was MOM HUG, Not The GIRL / BOY -FRIEND . When DAD'S SHOULDER Was The HIGHEST PLACE On The Earth, Not Your DESIGNATION . When Your WORST ENEMIES Were Your SIBLINGS, Not Your MANAGER. When The Only Thing That Could HURT Were BLEEDING KNEES, Not The TEARS Falling Down Your Cheeks. When The Only Things BROKEN Were TOYS, Not The DYING HEARTS . And When GOOD-BYES Meant TILL TOMORROW, Not For YEARS & YEARS. Life Has Changed A Lot . And The People Too. Its dis-heartening to see and to feel how swiftly people who were most important to you are replaced by others.   (Ending ending sentence changed) Source-Unknown  __,_._,___

*Two Choices* What would you do?....you make the choice. Don't look for a punch line, there isn't one. Read it anyway. My question is: Would you have made the same choice?** At a fundraising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disabilities, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would never be forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and its dedicated staff, he offered a question: 'When not interfered with by outside influences, everything nature does, is done with perfection. Yet my son, Shay, cannot learn things as other children do. He cannot understand things as other children do.** Where is the natural order of things in my son?'**   The audience was stilled by the query. The father continued. 'I believe that when a child like Shay, who was mentally and physically disabled comes into the world, an opportunity to realize true human nature presents itself, and it comes in the way other people