Today is a Beautiful Day

[Bethers]

Got this in an email with drawings - but you'll get the idea in just words:

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his
feet. He held up a sign which said: "I am blind,
please help." There were only a few coins in the
hat.

A man was walking by. He took a few coins from his pocket and
dropped them into the hat. He then took the sign, turned it around,
and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walked by would see the new words.

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people
were giving money to the blind boy.

That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked,
"Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

The man said, "I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in a different way." I wrote: "Today is a beautiful day but I cannot see it."

Both signs told people that the boy was blind.
But the first sign simply said the boy was blind. The second sign told people that they were so lucky that they were not blind. Should we be surprised that the second sign was more effective?

Moral of the Story: Be thankful for what you have. Be creative. Be innovative. Think differently and positively. When life gives you a 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1000 reasons to smile.
Face your past with regret.
Handle your present with confidence. Prepare for the future without fear.



An aside from me - I don't see my past with regret. It made me who I am today - therefore I look at it with awe - even the bad times. They led me to good times. And if I look closely - some of those times I like to think of as bad - had a lot of good in them. Need to remember that!

[retiredhappy]

Totally agree.

[cpatinjones]

Thought provoking

[BirdbyBird]

Today is a beautiful day!

[snowball]

What a neat neat e-mail!!!
thank you for posting it and it is indeed thought provoking if we can
just remember it
sheila

[ali1257]

What a beautiful post. It is like asking if the glass if half full or half empty.

[Bethers]

Ali, that's exactly what it's like. Good thinking.

[Nasoosie]

How very true are all the comments----we can't do the "If only"s or the "What if"s----or we wouldn't be where or who we are today. All things have had outcomes that I was not able to predict or calculate or even dream of. If anything had been different, I wouldn't be the me that I am today. And, not only that, my kids may have never been who they are.

[Carolinagal]

Thanks for posting this , Beth !!!

[JanetA]

That was sweet,, thanks Beth!