Ramon's World

I will share to you the story of an old woman how she live happily with her five simple rules to be happy.

The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is
fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock , with her hair fashionably
coifed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind,
moved to a nursing home today. Her husband of 70 years recently passed
away, making the move necessary.

After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the
nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she
maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description
of
her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her
window. "I love it," she stated with the enthusiasm of an
eight-year-old
having just been presented with a new puppy.

"Mrs.. Jones, you haven't seen the room .... just wait." "That
doesn't
have anything to do with it," she replied. Happiness is something you
decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend
on
how the furniture is arranged... it's how I arrange my mind. I already
decided to love it "It's a decision I make
every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in
bed
recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no
longer
work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.

Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I'll focus on the new
day
and all the happy memories I've stored away ... just for this time in
my
life. Old age is like a bank account ... you withdraw from what you've
put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness
in
the bank account of memories. Thank you for your part in filling my
Memory
bank. I am still depositing. Remember the five simple rules to be
happy:

1. Free your heart from hatred.

2. Free your mind from worries.

3. Live simply.

4. Give more.

5. Expect less.