Life is Short, Be Happy

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“Here’s Something New To Feel Good About Today!”

“There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don’t. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.” July 20, 2011 – “Living your life” Lillian Uba (Noda)

A friend shared this amazing quote on her facebook page. These poignant words resonated with me so I did a search and found this incredibly inspiring story to share with you. I think these are truly words to live by. What words do you live by? Share a quote about living your life, and I will pass it along so others can benefit from it. Share the words that touch your heart and you will touch someone else’s too.

Lillian's Story

The dormitory that housed Noda – an 18-year-old “dorm mother” to younger girls who had been pulled from the countryside to work with her making wireless radios for airplanes – had been incinerated as well. It was time to go to another city, to begin another leg on the journey that had started in 1936 when her parents had sent her to Japan from Sacramento, Calif., to go to school.

When the war came, she was trapped. There was no way to contact her parents. All she kept hearing from the government were terrible stories about how the Americans had rounded up a lot of the Japanese people and “ran steamrollers over them and killed them.” Were her parents among them? She didn’t know. She lived with the uncertainty and fear and found a job working in the radio factory. She was lucky to have a job here; she not only had clothing and food, she had shelter.

Lillian Uba (Noda) talks about her marriage to a fine man, Dr. Mahito Uba, and how he died nine years ago. She smiles and talks about her four sons. She tells how her artist mother – Yuri Noda – designed one of the windows in the Colorado Capitol and how she became an artist, too. But the talk returns to the war, to all those B-29s roaring overhead to all that screaming, all that death. She sighs deeply, almost painfully. “Sixty six years seems like a long time. I remember I was glad when the war ended.”

“I don’t feel we should have war anymore. I just want peace in the world. No more bombs dropped anywhere.”

“Find Something New To Feel Good About Everyday!”

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