The way you look…
I suppose that some could look at my life, what I’ve done and how it is now the come to the conclusion that I should be sad and depressed, but that’s completely opposite to how I feel, the way I look at it is that I feel blessed to have been such an active person, I have incredible memories of climbing out of a Shorts Skyvan rear door at 13,500′ over Sibson Parachute Centre near Peterborough and being in a 60 man formation that at the time was a British record and went into the Guiness book of records, it was there between 1989 and 1997. I’m proud of that and happy about all the other “adrenaline junkie” type things I did….Okay I’ve had multiple sclerosis for 15 years but that doesn’t take anything away from the life and memories I had and have. If you encompass my life so far in a book, the 2004 to the day I beat this disease, which will happen, is simply a chapter in my book of life.
I’m a positive, optimistic person, I have no room in my life for negativity, that attitude will only push a person down a very slippery slope of gloom and despair and that’s somewhere I’ll never go.
A man in Egypt tells his two sons to go to a small town to sell some new inexpensive soft shoes to the thousands living there, the first son comes back and apologises to his father telling him he didn’t sell any because no one wears shoes… the second son is so happy and says what an amazing opportunity this was because no one had shoes….
I’ve said this before and I firmly believe it….. Change the way you look at things….and the things you look at change….