When I was a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of San Francisco, I met an 18-year old freshman who had a profound effect on my life. Why? Because he had the greatest attitude of anyone I've ever known. I met Bruce early in the school year, but didn't get to really know him until the spring semester, when he taught me one of the most valuable lessons I've ever learned. Bruce had been a great high school football player in his hometown of Fresno, California, and was planning to attend Notre Dame University on an athletic scholarship. But tragedy hit him at the beginning of his senior year. He was stricken with polio a few weeks before the Salk Polio Vaccine arrived at his school. He almost died, was in the hospital for several weeks, and ended up paralyzed. He could not move his legs or his arms. He could talk, he could move his head, and he could move his hands and fingers, even though his arms were dead. Through sheer ...
"Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be." So said Abraham Lincoln. It is not what happens to us in life that determines our happiness so much as the way we react to what happens. Fred might, on just having lost his job, decide that he now has the opportunity to have a new work experience, to explore new possibilities and to exercise his independence in the workplace. His brother Bill might, under the same circumstances, decide to jump off a twenty story building and end it all. Given the same situation, on man rejoices while the other man commits suicide! One man sees disaster and the other man sees opportunity. I may have simplified things a little here but the fact remains that we decide how we react in life. (And even if we lose control, that is a decision that we make. We perhaps decide, "Things are getting a little too difficult for me. I think I will lose my mind for a while!") Being happy is not always...
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