Your Life Support System -8/8/00
Deborah
deborah@summerlands.com
Tue Aug  8 11:45:36 2000
A while back I signed up for "Your Life Support System".  This is a great little email pick me up that is delivered to my inbox on a daily basis and has the uncanny knack of knowing just what is going on in my life at any given moment and making the perfect comment/story on it.  I've decidedto start sharing them with you in hopes that you too will find great humour, comfort and assistance in your life... one day at a time.*p*Deborah*p**p*THE WORLD'S MOST COMMUNICATIVE DISEASE*p*There is a story in circulation about an optimistic farmer who*br*couldn't wait to greet each new day with a resounding, "Good*br*morning, God!" He lived near a woman whose morning greeting was*br*more like, "Good God. Morning?" They were each a trial to the*br*other. Where he saw opportunity, she saw problems. What brought*br*him satisfaction, brought her discontentment.*p*One bright morning he exclaimed, "Look at the beautiful sky! Did*br*you ever see such a glorious sunrise?"*p*"Yeah," she countered. "It'll probably get so hot the crops will*br*scorch!"*p*During an afternoon shower, he commented, "Isn't this wonderful?*br*Mother Nature is giving the corn a drink today!"*p*"And if it doesn't stop before too long," came the sour reply,*br*"we'll wish we'd taken out flood insurance on the crops!" And so*br*it went.*p*Convinced that he could instill some awe and wonder in this*br*hardened woman, he bought a remarkable dog. Not just any mutt,*br*but the most expensive, highly trained and gifted dog he could*br*find. The animal was exquisite! It could perform remarkable and*br*impossible feats which, the farmer thought, would surely amaze*br*even his neighbor. So he invited her to watch his dog perform.*p*"Fetch!" he commanded, as he tossed a stick into a lake, where it*br*bobbed up and down in the rippling water. The dog bounded after*br*the stick, walked ON the water, and retrieved it.*p*"What do you think of that?" he asked, smiling.*p*"Hmmm," she frowned. "Can't swim, can he?"*p*I believe that attitudes are the world's most communicative*br*diseases. They can be as catching as any known virus. And when*br*negative and cynical, they can be just as deadly.*p*But a stubbornly positive attitude can often make the difference*br*between happiness and misery, between health and illness and even*br*between life and death. Once infected, you'll never be the same.*br*





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