(11) ATTITUDE
The 92-year-old, petite,
well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by
Her husband of 70 years recently
passed away, making the move necessary.
After many hours of waiting
patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her
room was ready. As she maneuvered
her walker to the elevator,I
provided a visual description of her tiny room,including
the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window.
"I love it," she stated
with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having
just been presented with a new puppy.
"Mrs. Jones, you haven't seen
the room .... just wait."
"That doesn't have anything to
do with it," she replied.
"Happiness is something you
decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how
the furniture is arranged.... it's how I arrange my mind.
I already decided to love it ...
"It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I
can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my
body that no longer work,or
get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.
Each day is a gift, and as long as
my eyes open I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored
away ... just for this time in my life.
Old age is like a bank account ...
you withdraw from what you've put in ..
So, my advice to you would be to deposit
a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories. Isn't this
beautiful.....Carole
Thank you for your part in filling
my Memory bank. I am still depositing.
Remember the five simple rules to
be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred.
2. Free your mind from worries.
3. Live simply.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less.
FAMILY
Are you aware that if we died
tomorrow, the company that we are working for could easily replace us in a
matter of days. But the family we left behind will
feel the loss for the rest of their lives.
And come to think of it, we pour
ourselves more into work than into our own family, an unwise investment indeed,
don't you think?