What A Beautiful Attitude That shoud be Life!
The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fullydressed each morning by eight o'clock, with her hair fashionablycoifed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind,moved to a nursing home today. Her husband of 70 years recently passedaway, making the move necessary.
After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursinghome, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As shemaneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visualdescription of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that hadbeen hung on her window.
"I love it," she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-oldhaving just been presented with a new puppy. 'Mrs. Jones, you haven'tseen 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 Likemy room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged...it'show 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 theparts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and bethankful for the ones that do.
Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I'll focus on the newday and all the happy memories I've stored away... just for this timein 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 inthe bank account of memories.
Thank you for your part in filling my memory bank. I am stilldepositing.
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.
