If Tomorrow Never Comes

If tomorrow never comes -မနက္ၿဖန္ဆိုတာမ်ား မေရာက္ခဲ့ရင္- ဘာ ၿဖစ္မလဲ..ဘာမွ မၿဖစ္ပါဘူး၊ ကြ်န္ေနာ္ က ပံုၿပင္ ေၿပာမွာ မဟုတ္လို့ပါ၊ က်ြန္ေနာ့္ ဒီblog ေလးက English စာ၊စကား ေလ့လာေရးကို အဓိက ထားေရး ဖို့ လုပ္ထားတာ ၿဖစ္ေတာ့ ေၿပာ ေရး တဲ့ အေၾကာင္း အရာေတြ က English စာ၊ စကားေတြ နဲ့ပဲ ပတ္သက္ ေန မွာ ပါ။ အမွန္ သီခ်င္း တင္ဖို ့ အစီအစဥ္ မရွိေသးပါဘူး၊ ဒီမနက္ ရထားစီးၿပီး အလုပ္ အလာမွာ သတင္းစာ ဖတ္ရင္း ေတြ ့တဲ့ စာေလး ကေကာင္း ေတာ့ ေ၀မွ်ခ်င္တာနဲ့ ဆက္စပ္ၿပီး သီခ်င္းပါ ပါ သြားတယ္။

သီခ်င္းနာမည္ If tomorrow never comes ကို ေခါင္းစဥ္တတ္ၿပီး ေရးတာ ရယ္၊ စာသား ေတြ ကို ထုပ္ႏွဳတ္ေရး ထားတာေၾကာင့္ က်ြန္ေနာ့္ blog ကိုလာဖတ္ သူေတြ ပိုၿပီးရသ စံုေအာင္၊ သီခ်င္း လိုက္ဆိုရင္း စကားလံုး အသစ္ေတြ လဲ ရေအာင္ mp3 နဲ့အတူ တပုဒ္ လံုး lyrics ကို တင္ဆက္ လိုက္တာပါ။

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RECENTLY, a friend sent me an e-mail with an attachment titled "Four Things You Cannot Recover". Expecting a commercial spiel, I was pleasantly sur­prised to see that the e-mail of­fered a philosophical take on life. It’s amazing how four sim­ple phrases can be so profound.

THE STONE AFTER THE THROW

Sometimes, I have jumped the gun and blamed others when they were innocent. My lack of sensitivity and failure to verify those accusations led me to hurt people. These form the unpleasant incidents which will always re­main regretfully carved in my memory. These are also known as “life’s lessons”, especially if we have taken away something pos­itive from them.

THE WORD AFTER IT’S SAID

How many times, in the heat of the moment, have we blurted out unpleasant words, only to regret it afterwards? I have, and I have learnt my lesson. Now, if I feel like vent­ing my frustration on someone who I feel deserves it, I take a deep breath and embark on what I call “a moment of truth”, before speaking my mind. This “moment of truth” puts a check on me and, nine out of 10 times, I managed to ap­proach a situation in a more civ­il fashion.

THE OCCASION AFTER THE LOSS

There is a song by Garth Brooks entitled If Tomorrow Never Comes. Part of the lyrics go like this: ’Cause I’ve lost loved ones in my life/Who never knew how much I loved them/Now I live with the regret/That my true feelings for them never were re­vealed. So I made a promise to myself/To say each day how much she means to me/And avoid that circumstance/Where there’s no second chance/To tell her how I feel. This serves as a reminder for us to tell people how much they mean to us right now, and not put it off to another day. Life is fragile and we should want to cherish every moment as it comes, for tomorrow is prom­ised to no one.

THE TIME AFTER IT’S GONE

“I will spend more time with my kids after I have established my career”, or “I’m sure my wife will understand that I have to work long hours”. “Right now, my company comes first and I need to make it successful, so that we can be comfortable for the rest of our lives.” “I’m really busy, Dad, but I promise I will try and visit in the next few weeks to take Mum and you out for dinner.” Do these statements sound familiar? I have learnt the hard way that the elements that constitute our lives cannot be compartmentalised, nor neatly arranged on a schedule.
Life is, more interestingly, a mishmash of experiences that – when weaved together – forms a beautiful and personalised tapestry. So, friends, cherish today, appreciate the time you have and live it up!

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သီခ်င္းစာသား

Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping
She's lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the light and lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

'Cause I've lost loved *ones* in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where there's no second chance to tell her how I feel

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face this world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

So tell that someone that you love
Just what you're thinking of
If tomorrow never comes

(ေလာေလာဆယ္ေတာ့ ဒါေလးပဲဖတ္ထားပါခင္ဗ်ာ၊ဘာသာၿပန္ နဲ့ ရွင္းလင္းခ်က္ကို အလုပ္ေလးနဲနဲ
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