Fulfillment
Here is your Friday STORY on: HAPPINESS: Happiness can be the result of forgetting. Emotional highs and lows use up our energy and ability to remember. We forget how to be happy. Today's story explains how easy it is to forget, but at the same time how valuable it is to remember. The story is about a speech, cleverly written to express a point. Be assured that the writer was happy during its composure. If some anxiety or anger would have occurred whilst writing this clever speech, we would have never felt the expressive gratitude given to the VALUE of good friends. A CENSORSHIP-FREE GRADUATION The following salutatorian speech was delivered by the author at the June 7, 2002 graduation ceremony of Hollidaysburg Area High School. The text was initially censored by school officials because of its religious content. The school later allowed the author to deliver her remarks un-censored after being contacted by Liberty Counsel, a public interest legal group. The uncensored speech is presented here. I don't know about all of you, but I definitely don't feel old enough to be standing here today. I maintain that I am really an eight year-old somehow trapped in the body of an eighteen year-old. But, in the past few weeks, I've really started to think about what I have done in my life, and I am slowly coming to the realization that a lot has transpired in my seemingly few eighteen years. Time seems to have flown past without me, though I possess a mind full of memories that indicate otherwise. If I try as hard as I can, I am able to pull up some memories as far back as kindergarten, though this is quite a chore, as most of those memories have been crowded out by derivatives, the structure of DNA, and the format for a diction paragraph. But once I dig through to those early years, I begin to understand how far I have come. I've gone from being unable to even write my own name to being able to understand (supposedly) college level calculus and live for a month in Germany. My repertoire has expanded greatly, and, looking back, I cannot imagine how I accomplished everything I have. As pictures from my past cross my mind, I am glad for what I have achieved, but then I look a little closer and catch a glimpse of something even more amazing in my life. Yes, I am blessed to have done all I have to reach this point, but when I look hard at where I have been, I see how I have arrived here. At that point, I finally understand that I owe success not to my own efforts, but to the love and friendship of some truly wonderful people. Usually they are not on the forefront garnering attention for themselves; no, they are in the background, doing the things that matter most, the things that have gotten me where I am today. They stayed up with me into the wee hours of the morning, discussing all the things that really matter; they pored through history books, trying to pick out the information that would surely be on that massive test tomorrow; they were there to listen to my frustrations when time seemed too short and the work too long; they gave me advice when I didn't know what to do, yet never pushed me to do what they thought was right. More than any of that, though, they taught me how to have fun in life, regardless of the ugly situations that often present themselves at the most inopportune of times. By now you must be wondering who these awesome people are, and to that I answer that I have been very blessed to call them my friends and family. God, in His perfect way, has managed to connect me with these people who have shaped my life, and for that I am forever grateful to Him. Now, as I prepare to go off to college, the hardest part is not starting a new chapter, but finishing this one. Those people who have grown so dear to my heart must now be allowed to go their own ways, and in the case of some, must be left behind as I move ahead. But just when I think I can't go through with it all, who should be there, encouraging me to follow the dreams God has given me, but those dear people, the same ones I don't want to leave. I dread these partings that draw nearer by the day, but these people have helped me understand that there is One who will never leave me or forsake me. He will stick closer to me than a brother, even when I mess up or even try to run from Him. He, even more so than the people I love, has been there every day, never forcing me to do anything, but always encouraging me to stretch my limits and strive for the best He has to offer. As we prepare to continue in this journey of our lives, I look back with special fondness on everything my friends and family have done for me. Through all we have been through together, I have learned the lessons that will make my life happier in years to come. The people God has placed around me are some of life's sweetest blessings, and my prayer is that God will bless them as much as they have blessed me. I encourage all of you today to remember those people who have made you who you are; do not forget to thank them before you leave. They have aided us in reaching this point where we now stand, and for that they should never be forgotten. (Shannon Wray) QUOTE: 'Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.' (Eileen Caddy, Spiritual Writer)
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Tata Communications Deploys Amdocs Solution to Consolidate Network Inventory ...
22 May 2012 at 4:02am MarketWatch (press release) Having already installed Amdocs' fulfillment solution in India, this deployment now expands to cover the North America markets and gives Tata Communications bi-directional operability between its Indian and North American inventories, ... and more » |
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Top-ranked Independent Audio And Video Distributor Alliance Entertainment ......
22 May 2012 at 4:02am MarketWatch (press release) SUNRISE, Fla., May 22, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Alliance Entertainment, LLC ( www.aent.com ) has acquired Audiolife ( www.audiolife.com ), the music industry's leading direct-to-fan fulfillment company, it was announced today by Mike Davis, ... and more » |
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Amazon's Jeff Moore Touts FBA Benefits, Prime on Your Site - Auctionbytes
21 May 2012 at 8:30am  Auctionbytes | Auctionbytes By Julia Wilkinson Amazon.com's Jeff Moore explained the many benefits to merchants of using Amazon's Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) service in a session titled "The ABCs of Fulfillment by Amazon" Sunday morning at the Monsoon Commerce conference in ... and more » |
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Wineshipping investing millions in Napa fulfillment facility - North Bay Busi...
21 May 2012 at 7:15am North Bay Business Journal By Jeff Quackenbush, Business Journal Staff Reporter SONOMA ? Increasing sales of wine plus greater demand for direct shipments has fulfillment services provider Wineshipping packing for a major expansion to Napa Valley. The 14-year-old company is ... |
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Tech Data Corporation Reports First-Quarter Fiscal 2013 Results - MarketWatch...
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Shear fulfillment - Denton Record Chronicle
20 May 2012 at 10:47pm  Denton Record Chronicle | Denton Record Chronicle Recently retired Dixie Reeves, who owned Dixie's Pet Grooming in Denton, holds her dog, Poco, as new owner Amber Sanders grooms Bella in the background Thursday. Reeves sold the business to Sanders, who changed the name to Ultimutt Pet Grooming. |
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Pronto Post, South Florida's Largest Direct Marketing and Product Fulfillment...
20 May 2012 at 8:06am Houston Chronicle Pronto Post, South Florida's largest direct marketing and product fulfillment company is pleased to announce the promotion of long time employee Michael Suita to Fulfillment Manager. Michael is in charge of product fulfillment operations. and more » |
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Amazon poised to get a cut of California sales taxes - Los Angeles Times
19 May 2012 at 9:31pm Los Angeles Times Workers push carts full of merchandise at an Amazon fulfillment center in Phoenix in 2010. Amazon is setting up such centers in the California cities of San Bernardino and Patterson, bringing some 1000 jobs to each. (Joshua Lott, Bloomberg / November ... Amazon Figures Out How To Funnel California Sales Tax Back Into Its Own PocketsThe Consumerist all 2 news articles » |
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Shawn Johnson Joins South Florida Direct Mail and Product Fulfillment Company...
19 May 2012 at 8:06am Houston Chronicle Pronto Post, South Florida's largest direct marketing and product fulfillment company is pleased to announce the hiring of Shawn Johnson as Operations Manager. Pronto Post, South Florida's largest direct marketing and product fulfillment company is ... and more » |
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Australian Company Outsources Fulfillment Center to Southern California - San...
18 May 2012 at 10:33pm San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Innovex Party Limited Announces Landgraf Enterprises LLC / Mind Machines as North American Fulfillment Center for MicroBeatMini Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 18, 2012 Australian manufacturer Innovex outsources its fulfillment center to the USA. and more » |
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