Happiness

I saw this quote in a recent email. I don't regularly read my forwards, but this email caught my attention. The email was talking about a blind man being shown to his new room at a retirement home.


'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.


I think this is so true for me. Some days I wake up and decide that it is going to be a rough day. Like Wednesday for example, M didn't want to sleep...at all. Then I tried to change his diaper on my bed and he left a wet spot before I could get a clean diaper. I had to change clothes after spit up and the wet sheets on the bed. After all those issues, I decided it would be a bad day.
Today I will be happy.