What choice do you have but to enjoy life?

Whatever difficulties you have, protests don't change them. You may feel that problems were foisted on you, but wherever they arrived from, they arrived. You can fuss and fume about life all you want, but what good does it do? That's why I say, what choice do you have but to enjoy life? Isn't this the simplest thing you ever heard?

Even when you stumble and fall, is it not possible that you can enjoy that view? You would not have chosen to be on the floor, but now that you are, what would it take for you to make it worthwhile?

At the very least, when you have an untoward experience, you can add that to your repertoire, check it off your list, and set it aside. Now it is behind you. You already experienced it. Now it can be said and done with.

How often you regret what has already been said and done, and aggravate over it! And all your attention and all the attention in the world does not remedy it. If your heart was hurt, it was hurt. But, over and over again, you scold yourself or someone or something and you replay the event that has already played, and yet you call yourself a practical person.

A practical person chooses to let go. A practical person chooses to enjoy.

This is not to say that you have to enjoy what you don't. You do not enjoy being wounded, but you can enjoy something. You can enjoy something you never enjoyed before. You can enjoy learning, even when it is a lesson you have had many times before. Perhaps, if you finish with it, you can be finished with it once and for all.

Every experience that comes to you can be the making of you. In world terms, you will not be the same person after it as before. What seems unkind may be a kindness. Certainly you are being given an opportunity for something. Find out what it is.

Whether you invited the experience or not, it is yours. And it is yours to do with as you will.

If someone tripped you and you fell, you fell. If you fell for no reason, still you fell. Whatever the supposed cause, you are the one who fell and you are the one who finds himself on the floor. Whatever the cause, the resolution is the same. Look around. Find new balance. Get up, brush yourself off, and keep going.

Bruised or not, you can get up. And if you cannot get up by yourself, someone will help you. Wherever you find yourself, there will be something you can find to enjoy.

Sometimes you even enjoy complaining. If complaining hastened your growth, I would encourage you to complain.

Getting up, however, does hasten your growth, and I encourage it.

If you have an illness, get up from it in your mind. Do not let it hold you back from finding joy in life.

If you are confined to a small room with only one window, make the most of that window. Discover layers of life that you never stopped to see before.

The physical does not have to confine you.

Events in life do not have to confine you.

Disappointments in life do not have to confine you.

All of those certainly do not define you. You are far greater than any limits your mind can conceive.

Let nothing limit you. Get up from old thoughts and move on.