A LESSON FOR A HAPPY LIFE

This is a story that has made the rounds on the internet for years - I don`t know who to give credit for it but every time it comes to me it warms my heart:

A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably combed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready.
As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his window.
'I love it,' he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.
'Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait.'That doesn' t have anything to do with it,' he 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!"

And you do realize that your bank account of memories comes from your perception! Good or bad our perception is everything.It is what makes us who we are and makes us react or not.It's how we see the world.... Everything centers around our perception of what is going on around us, and what we perceive is being done to us.
I like to go around the room at my staff meetings and ask each person to give their take on a particular incident and always at least 3 people will give a different version of the same incident and nothing you can say or do can change their perception of what happened......so then just imagine outside in the bigger world.
We take up others people's ills and make it our own, we take up what people said that has nothing to do with us and make it our own,we have perceived bad vibes from people who are not even thinking of us...... We make or break our lives.
If we change our way of seeing things instead of TRYING to change others we would have a fabulous life just like the old gentleman in the story decided to have for the remainder of his days.
Every morning when you awake make the decision that NO ONE IS GOING TO RAIN ON YOUR PARADE!