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This is an excerpt from� a video that was created for the AARP U@50 video contest and placed second. It is based on the Argentinian
Political Advertisement “The Truth” by RECREAR.

The Lost Generation�

I am part of a lost generation
and i refuse to believe that
i can change the world

I realized this may be a shock but
“Happiness comes from within”
is a lie, and
“Money will make me happy”
So in 30 yrs I will tell my children
they are not the most important thing in my life
My Employer will know that
I have my priorities straight because
work
is more important than
family
I tell you this
Once upon a time
families stayed together
but this will not be true in my era
this is a quick fix society
Experts tell me
30 years from now I will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of my
divorce
I do not concede that
I will live in a country of my own making
In the future Environmental destruction will be the norm
No longer can it be said that
My peers and i care about this earth
It will be evident that
My generation is apathetic and liturgic
It is foolish to presume that
There is hope

And all of this will come true unless we choose to reverse it.

(Please read it on reverse)

Here’s the Video from You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA

A Kiss that’s never tasted is forever and ever wasted� - From a song by Billie Holiday

If you don’t love too much, you don’t love enough. - Unknown

If someone asked me how many times have you gone through my mind I would only say once because you came into my mind and never left.

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you’ve made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.

It is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. - Aristotle

If there ever comes a day When we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever. - Winnie the Pooh
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Any time not spent on love is wasted. - Torquato Tasso

Men want to be a woman’s first love. Women want to be a man’s last romance. - Oscar Wilde

At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet. - Plato

If I know what love is, it is because of you. - Herman Hesse

Melt me with the heat of your love. Mold me with the care of your touch. Varnish me with the tenderness of you kiss
so I can be the best thing in the universe.

There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread. - Mother Teresa

Love doesn’t make the world go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. - Franklin P. Jones

If love is a dream, then marriage is the alarm clock. - John Hagee

I won’t ever trade the the day, when God introduced you to me, for in that day, i know my life started to be complete.

True love is like a ghost; everyone talks of it, few have seen it. - La Rochefoucauld

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. - Benjamin Disraeli

How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love’s beginning. - Thomas Campbell

Love is the greatest refreshment in life. - Pablo Picasso

I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
~ Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English author. From ‘A Christmas Carol’.

Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget.”
~ Hugh Downs (1921- ), American newscaster.

They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.”
~ Mrs. Paul M. Ell.

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.”
~ W. T. Ellis

Christmas, my child, is love in action.”
~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.”
~ Lenore Hershey

My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still.”
~ Charlton Heston (1923- ), American film actor.

At Christmas, all roads lead home.”
~ Marjorie Holmes, American writer.

It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.”
~ Marjorie Holmes, American writer.

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?”
~ Bob Hope, American film actor and comedian.

A little guy is sitting at the bar just staring at his drink for half an hour when this big trouble-making biker steps next to him, grabs his drink, gulps it down in one swig and then turns to the guy with a menacing stare as if to say, ‘What’cha gonna do about it?’

The poor little guy starts crying.

‘Come on man I was just giving you a hard time,’ the biker says. ‘I didn’t think you’d CRY.’ ‘I can’t stand to see a man crying.

“This is the worst day of my life,” says the little guy between sobs. “I can’t do anything right.” “I overslept and was late to an important meeting, so my boss fired me.”

When I went to the parking lot, I found my car was stolen and I don’t have any insurance. I left my wallet in the cab I took home. I found my wife in bed with the gardener and my dog bit me.

So I came to this bar trying to work up the courage to put an end to my life, and then you show up and drink the damn poison.