Value: Right attitude
Sub-Value: Acceptance, Positive approach
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Katie was a young woman with a great, big problem. She was a teenager dying of leukemia.
Katie’s mother wrote about the way her daughter approached her disease. She told about a time, shortly after a bone marrow transplant, when Katie’s head was “slickly bald,” as she put it.
One day Katie heard the doctor coming on rounds and ducked into the bathroom. Her mother heard her giggling and asked, “Katie, what is so funny?”
She put her finger to her lips, pulled a Nike ski cap onto her head, and crawled into bed.
When the doctor came in, she said, “Well, Miss Katie! How are you feeling today?”
Katie frowned and said, “I am okay, I guess… but I just have this ‘splitting’ headache.”
She pulled off her ski cap and there on her bald head was a huge red crack, which she had drawn with a marker. As the doctor recovered from her initial shock, the room exploded in laughter.
Katie did not survive the cancer, but she conquered depression and despair and found an authentic way to live as fully as possible her last months of life.
“It DOES help!” Katie’s mother asserted at the end of her letter.
Mark Twain says that the “human race has unquestionably one really effective weapon – laughter.”
Learning
In life, we may have to face many challenges, but if we face them in a positive manner then accepting the situation, learning from it, and improving oneself becomes easier.
Additionally, we can also find a solution to the problem in a calm and peaceful manner. It would be even better if we are able to face difficult situations with a little bit of humour.
(Source: Excerpts from Steve Goodier’s post in http://www.LifeSupportSystem.com)
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