12/25/2016
Hi Everyone!
I am writing to let you know that I was recently diagnosed with “really happy disease”. The doctors say that it is very rare among humans and therefore they really know nothing much about it. The prognosis is sketchy at best, in view of the lack of information, but their advice is to live one day at a time and ironically, “stay positive”.
My symptoms included a variety of crazy things like: trying to Love one another and be nice to people. Almost ridiculous. I found myself going out of my way to give away kindness and to help my friends and my neighbors. I was just not myself. I started to believe in the Golden Rule and started to treat other people as I would like to be treated. Dale Carnegie suggested: “Don’t criticize, condemn or complain” and I actually started to live that way.
Who was this person in the mirror? I don’t know you anymore!
Suddenly I was more confident because I started to believe in the human race and myself and I knew that we could all live together and like it. I started to believe in the natural goodness of life and love and living and I really felt good. How absurd is that? I got excited as I started to write down goals and make a plan for my life and even think that it might be possible.
The next thing you know I was thinking positively about the future, taking walks, breathing deeply, drinking water and would you believe I started to do a little exercise. I was a mess!
I started to eat healthy and feeding my body with really good food and really good food for thought. I started to read and study positive thinking and the next thing you know my life was full of happiness and I knew that I was really, really sick.
I could not wait to wake up each day and get that day started. There was so much to see and to learn and to do! Boredom was no longer a past time and I got excited about what I was doing instead of getting anxious about it. Yes; weird, very, very weird. I used to be depressed and was often disappointed about what was going on in my life and now, I am pumped up about being me. “Slow down Bro”, something is way off! I was meeting new people and learning so much about what it is like to be alive. The gift of my life was no longer a burden and I truly appreciated my life as a gift.
It occurred to me that I might matter and that I was actually here to make a positive difference in the lives of other people. It became my mission to make this true and for as long I was here my goal was to make people’s lives better because I was here. That is when I was diagnosed. The doctors said that was the final symptom and that not only was I really, really sick but I might even be “nuts”.
When I heard that I got really excited and went out and bought some cashews, I love cashews! Because of that behavior I was dismissed from care and now I need a new Doctor. I actually think the cashews were working but perhaps I should get some mixed nuts and see if that will be better. I might even be thinking that I will be okay. Uh oh! Hoorah!
Think positive and pass it on,
Pass the Positive
Happy Holidays!
