I tried, I changed, but still am getting divorced!

[TimeHeals]

Hey NM.

Let's face it. Some things that happen in our live are unpleasant, but it's all in how we use them and view them.

You cannot change your past, but you can change your attitude toward the past.

When I was 22 years old, I was paralyzed for 2 months. I spent a lot of time thinking in my hospital room, and I spent a lot of time reading, meditating, and developing positive imaging and relaxation techniques.

One day when my neurologist was visiting me, he picked up some of the books I was reading and looked at them, and then said, "This is some pretty heady stuff you're reading. What did you do before this happened to you?".

I answered, "I was pipe fitter working on piplelines". My neurologist then said, "I don't imagine too many pipefitters read these kinds of things. You should go back to school and use your talents more wisely".

I didn't go back to school until three years later, but that stuck with me as did the meditation and relaxation techniques and the sense that "if I can survive that, I can survive anything".

Today, when I think back on that time, I think of it as something that happened where I took a long look at who I was and resolved to build a better life and never let the little things bother me much. It changed my life forever, so I am glad it happened.

You can't change the past, but you can change how you look at it, and that can change your future.