Friday, 26 January 2024

Eighty-One Bright Hopes

 

Last autumn I shared a Michael J. Fox quote. Here’s a bit from the same article: “Some days are more difficult than others. Because I have assets, I have access to things others don’t, I wouldn’t begin to compare my experience to a working guy who gets Parkinson’s and has to quit his job and find a new way to live. I’m really lucky. I am genuinely a happy guy. But as I came through that darkness, I had an insight about my father-in-law, who espoused gratitude and acceptance and confidence. I started to notice things I was grateful for and the way other people respond to difficulty with gratitude. I concluded gratitude makes optimism sustainable. If you don’t think you have anything to be grateful for, keep looking. Because you don’t just receive optimism. You can’t wait for things to be great and then be grateful for that. You’ve got to behave in a way that promotes that.”

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