But girls, I found this list of suggestions, and decided I had to share it with you. I hope you're not becoming bored with "motivational" suggestions on how to enjoy your life, but I take the attitude that there is nothing boring in or with life. If a person is bored, it is because they are boring!! And it does us good to be reminded about some of the more simple but meaningful things about life.
1. Throw out non-essential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why we "pay" them.
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches only pull you down. And if you're nice and round and tubby like me, you'll have difficulty in getting back up if you're pull down to the ground, so why bother with them?
3. Keep leearning. Learn more about the computer (I admit I have heaps to learn in this department); crafts (keeps the little grey cells working); gardening, whatever. Never let the brain be idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop". And the devil's name is Alzheimers!
4. Enjoy the simple things. Even a nice glass of water.
5. Laugh often, long and loud until you gasp for breath.
6. Tears happen. Endure, grieve and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life is ourself. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health. If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. Whatever, treat it and your body with respect.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even interstate, another country, but NOT where guilt is.
10. Tell people that you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
LIFE IS NOT MEASURED BY THE NUMBER OF BREATHS WE TAKE,
BUT BY THE MOMENTS THAT TAKE OUR BREATH AWAY.
LIFE IS NOT MEASURED BY THE NUMBER OF BREATHS WE TAKE,
BUT BY THE MOMENTS THAT TAKE OUR BREATH AWAY.
A great message Rosemary. I am working hard on the not having guilt thing, a real big thing for me. Attending to my health, and enjoying the small things in life. It is only since I have become housebound that I have learnt what is important to me.
ReplyDeleteYou're right Jan. Our priorities sometimes need drastic adjustments, and it's when life issues and circumstances come along to trip us up a bit, that we realise just what is really important to us.
ReplyDeleteYou're on the right track - keep striving. Your friends who love you are with you all the way.