Start building your happy memories today by choosing to be happy !!!!!!!!!!

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  1. mssunitha2001

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    What is happiness? Let me share this little story with you .

    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, one of the staff members 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.”

    Why not start building your happy memories today by choosing to be happy. Take charge of your thoughts today. It’s not your mind if you allow anyone and any media to fill it indiscriminately. It’s not your choice if you’re choosing between the options programmed for you to choose between. It’s past time to become the programmer of your own mind. To own happiness you must first get beyond all those negative thoughts and feelings that have been foisted upon you as a part and parcel of your enculturation.

    Begin today by finding the good in all if it requires saying to yourself, “I can’t wait to see what good comes from this.” Hold onto that gratitude attitude and happiness will follow. Help another and the speed by which happiness arrives will be accelerated. Do a good deed every day and you will glue that happiness to you.


    (an email forward)
     
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    thank you mam for such a patient description. What you said is right always find goodness in each and every creature around us,.Really we can ward of our negative thoughts by doing a good deed and it will be a pleasure indeed. thank you for sharing .

    let us together build a pleasant world with good thoughts:thumbsup
     
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    thank you mam for such a patient description. What you said is right always find goodness in each and every creature around us,.Really we can ward of our negative thoughts by doing a good deed and it will be a pleasure indeed. thank you for sharing .

    let us together build a pleasant world with good thoughts:thumbsup
     
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    Dear Sunitha,
    Wonderful article on good thoughts. What ever we are our Attitude matters. So good attitude good thoughts will give good positive vibration around us. Thanks for sharing :)
     
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    Dear priyathama and bhuvisri

    Thanks for penning down your thoughts.....

    @priyathama

    i have just shared a mail which was forwarded to me..... I thoroughly enjoyed reading so thought of sharing with you all ...

    Good thoughts make us feel happy and to those around us too can feel it.....
     
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    Such a beautiful mail forward.Each word is so true.Yet as normal human beings we tend to find faults with everything.This nature is prevalent even in my 6 yr old nephew.No matter what my sister does to make him happy,still he finds something to crib and cry for.
     

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