Outandabout-Magazine-Oct-issue-191

48 | OUT AND ABOUT COSTA BLANCA
CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Do you ever feel worthless?
Perhaps you have lost sight of the fact
that we are all precious, all different,
all given the capacity to love and
hate, and all given the choice to decide
which one of those two roads we want to
go down. It is amazing to realise that no
matter how many people are involved in
our lives, we have the final say about how
we are going to deal with things, just by
our attitude, and the way we decide to react
to what goes on in our lives.
I read something quite lovely the other day
and would like to share it with you to make
you think:
“A college lecturer held up a £20 note and
asked the audience of 200 who would like
to have it. All the hands went up. He then
crumpled it, and asked the question again...
all the hands went up. He then put it on the
floor and scruffed it up with his foot, and
still everyone wanted it. He then said:
“My friends, you have all learned a very
valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the
money, you still wanted it because it did
not decrease in value. It was still worth £20.
Many times in our lives, we are dropped,
crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the
decisions we make and the circumstances
that come our way. We feel as though
we are worthless; but no matter what
happened or what will happen, you will
never lose your value.
Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased,
you are still priceless to those who love
you. The worth of our lives comes, not in
what happens to us, but by ...WHO WE
ARE.
You are special - don’t ever forget it.”
Perhaps we could think of that when we
feel particularly down, or talk to someone
else who feels that way. Sometimes in life
we get pointers about which direction we
should go in, and we choose to ignore them,
even to the point of feeling that things
don’t apply to us......what opportunities we
could be missing! By just keeping an open
mind and considering every option that
comes our way, without being judgemental
or negative about things, we could open
our lives up measurably, even by taking
on other points of view. We are all given
masses of opportunities every day to make
a difference to our lives, but some of us
think that life just has to go on the same as
yesterday and the day before, and we don’t
see any way out of a routine or a rut that
we have created for ourselves.
You deserve better, we all do! Just viewing
things differently makes all the difference.
Just deciding to smile at everyone we meet
makes a difference! Did you know that
the mere gesture of smiling produces an
electrical stimulus that effects the pituitary
gland, which releases the endorphins in the
brain that make us feel good?....why not
smile more?!!!
Till the next time!
Violet King