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A Theory on Relativity

8 04 2006

To realize the value of one year
Ask a student who failed his exam.

To realize the value of one month
Ask a mother who gave birth to a pre-mature baby.

To realize the value of one week
Ask an editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of one day
Ask a daily wage laborer who has ten kids to feed.

To realize the value of one hour
Ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of one minute
Ask a person who missed the train.

To realize the value of one second
Ask a person who survived an accident.

To realize the value of one mili-second
Ask the person who won a silver medal in olympics.

From a friend’s Facebook profile…

8 04 2006: Fergus Macdonald (12:37:46) :

Nice…kudos to the author!
8 04 2006: yee lin (15:23:01) :

jus an after thought, seems like we only realise the worth of something after it has passed
8 04 2006: BL (15:50:47) :

“Gravitation is not responsible for making two people fall in love.”
- Albert Einstein.

Trust me on that, coming from me with a past life being a general relativist.
10 04 2006: cray (09:27:00) :

hmm, something we have has no value. something we don’t, has some value. something we’ll never have is held with great respect and worshipped. (c)

sweet. I’ll begin my book with this.
10 04 2006: lesley (14:51:25) :

loves it~
10 04 2006: yee lin (14:56:09) :

ha Cray, i love your quote u are writing a book?
11 04 2006: cray (17:41:25) :

now that I have a quote AND a fan, the book can’t be far behind, can it?
11 04 2006: bjornlee (20:22:10) :

good u left some digital evidence here, that means i am automatically entitled to future royalties from your book, right? =)
12 04 2006: Jarrold (04:44:01) :

nice quote. makes you stop and think about the time passing you by…
12 04 2006: yee lin (15:50:46) :

ahah cray thats a nice one well yeah haha let me noe if u do have a book i bet it’ll be interesting *whee~
13 04 2006: cray (20:37:19) :

haha, if I know you, you should get a preview copy.