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it promises to be a good day.. of course i think every day these days promises to be a good day. i have chat friends, where i call them ‘the bad news bears’ where they come online and tell me all the bad news of whatever is happening in their life. i have a secret to leading a good life. if you don’t let yourself become a bad news bear, then you will find that you will look back on yesterday, last week, last year and only remember all the good news you told and you will say ‘hey i really have a wonderful life’.. and trust me, this works even when ACUTE suffering gets in the way. even acute suffering will be like when a woman has a baby, you won’t remember it if you do a norman cousins thing and laugh and tell jokes or something while it’s happening, you will remember the jokes.. just thought i would share this with y’all.. i’ve had 7 years of acute suffering, but since i only talked about it a few times, that’s the only reason i remember it is those few times i threw in the towel and COMPLAINED.. the rest of the years i only remember the joy of the Lord.. i really have a wonderful life.. i’m not saying that i’m stronger or better than ‘them’.. i’m just saying that i don’t actually have the ability to concentrate on the bad.. coz when i do, my world comes crashing down.. so what i’m telling you here is just my observations on what happens why you concentrate on the good. i’m certainly not stronger and it’s by the grace of God that i don’t have MORE days where i break down and complain. But i take the good days God gives me where I can get ‘em.. and it’s all relative. on my ‘good’ days i’m certainly not ‘cured’ and i could still choose to say bad things, but perish the thought! i would rather say ‘i had a great day! i found a wool mattress topper at half the price, comfy bed!’, or whatever else i can think of that’s of good report. and tomorrow and tomorrow when i look back it will be remembered as the day i made my bed comfy, not as ‘the bad day of whatever is wrong with me, yadda yadda’.. this is the secret of how to build a great life.