The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calender, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calender and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. She can reflect with PRIDE and JOY on all the richness set down in these notes, on all the life he has already lived to the fullest.
What will it matter to him if he notices he is growing old? Has she any reason to envy the young people whom she sees, or wax nostalgic over her own lost youth?
What reasons has he to envy a young person?
For the POSSIBILITIES that a young person has, the future which is in store for him?
'No Thank You!', she will think. 'Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of many sufferings BRAVELY suffered. These SUFFERINGS are even the things of which I am the most proud,
although these things cannot inspire envy.'
Quote by Victor Frankel
It's a brand new week. There are only POSSIBILITIES awaiting you!!
Nerdmaste,
Jeffrey Louis Martinez
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