Take A Minute to Think
Take a minute to think about how many choices we make for a day, and how those choices would be so much affected our life. Someone said: “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we choose to react to it.” And the attitude we choose to have everyday is what makes the difference between our being happy and successful or not. You know, our attitude is more important depend on what we learnt from the past. It’s more important than our education, or family environments we come from. Because life is always unfair, bad things happen to all of us! Like sickness, unfortunate, bad incidents, problems at work, in our marriage and family, money problems.
I know a gentleman who is 45-year-old suddenly discovered he was going to die in a short time from a serious sickness that has no cure and what he had accept is only to die. At first he was so upset, depressed and angry, feeling he didn’t deserve to get this terrible disease. But then he realized that he really had only 2 choices.
The one is: He could live the rest of his short life on complaining and making life miserable for himself and his family. And then die in an angry, bitter person full of hate. The other one is: He could choose to enjoy and be thankful for the remaining health and strength he still had, and make the most of each day by loving and helping his wife and kids. So when he died he would know he had won and beaten this disease by not letting it ruin his heart and character. So he chose for the remaining years of his life to be happy and make his family happy.
You know, there are some things in life we simply cannot change or control, like certain disease, the weather, law or others mind. We cannot control other people’s attitude toward us, but we can always control our own attitude! For friends, your attitude everyday makes all the difference in the world to you and them. So no matter how bad things get, you still can choose to either let it make you bitter, or let it make you better. Just take a minute to think about it.