Change the world in one thought

I’m gratefull now for the rain shower that got me this morning. The joy of the sun drying everything off and then the miracle of the rainbow stretching from a cumulonimbus storm cloud, I see these things now through different eyes than I once did.

The autumnal canvas is now being painted, I love the fact that the trees turn to the sun to get painted gold. The leaves are starting to fall, I love a soft carpet of leaves, the scrunch they make as you walk through them🍁🍂 .

This is what life is about, I will appreciate every part of my life sentence and live it to the max.

Don’t waste a second of yours, go out and live it.

I can’t waste time, I’m under a sentence, my sentence is life not death, because that’s a crazy way of looking at it. I may, if the stars are aligned in the correct places be sentenced to 5 to 8 years of life. 🌈

What an honour to be allowed to live that long, my prognosis 5 years ago would have been a death sentence of months, but I’m being allowed the priviledge to be able to live and I mean live for years rather than months.

Of course none of this is guarenteed, no one has the sight to see, how long anyone is going to live or die, no one knows what will happen. Life is unpredictable, heck I know that now. My life has gone from reasonably predictable to total chaos and unpredactability in a matter of weeks. 

If I do get years I’ve then got the chance of someone somewhere to come up with a cure, it’s funny, I always used to treat my students as if they would be the one to find the  cure for cancer, that mind set has stood me well down the years. The number of students I could have given up on, but for that thought, don’t give up on them Woody you never know this person learning to drive could be the one, don’t crush their dreams,  inspire them and you just never know that this person who’s ready to give up their challenge to drive a car or drive an ambulance, will become inspirational themselves one day.🙏

How many teachers have given up on someone or how many people who were destined to be great but had their hopes and dreams taken away because someone was unkind to them. 😭

My blog has always been about being positive kind a grateful. The two words grateful and kind are the two words that make positivity come alive. Perhaps this should be on the school curriculum all over the world.🌍

Imagine if people learn from an early age just to be kind and gratefull how much difference would that make to the world. How many people that were bullied and tormented just because they were different would be able to go on and do great things if bullying didn’t exist, their lives would be different, it wouldn’t be one that is lived through fear, because that word couldn’t exist in a world of kindness.😱🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

If children learned to be greatful for what they have, and not focus on what they don’t have, how many people would not spend the rest of their lives never satisfied and always striving to get the next best phone or  car or house. If we taught people from an early age that money will never buy you happiness and no matter how far and wide you search to buy that happiness you only find out when it’s too late that happiness was inside you all along, in fact it was in your next thought, but you were just too busy to see it.🏡

I’ve been lucky, I realised that happiness was within me, but that took me nearly 50 years to realise , I’ve spent an awful large part of my life trying to earn enough money to buy the happiness I seeked. Once I found out it was in my next thought my world took a big shift.💰💲

Would children who were taught at a very young age the value about being kind to their classmates and others they meet in life, would that stop them from being in gangs would that stop them from hurting each other as they grow up?🥰

For me someone who has been taught the real value of kindness would never want to hurt another human being. Don’t just stop with humans, teach the younger children, who are afterall, the planets future the value of being kind to plants and animals, would that change the future of our planet, who knows, surely it would be better than it will be, if things don’t change.🌵🌴🌲

Would mental health problems exist if our children were taught the values of kindness gratitude and being positive, surely mental health could not exist with those understandings. Today mental health problems exist because of the misunderstandings we have about our lives. Someone once said to me when I was once in my darkest days convinced that I was a broken man, your not broken Woody you just think you are. That one sentence resonated with me in a big way and I saw the real truth in those words. 💊🧪🩹

The funny thing is that having been diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer, I should now be in my darkest hour, I should be a broken man with no hopes, no future and no light at the end of the tunnel. The reason is because when I heard those words your not broken Woody, you just think you are and in a matter of seconds I got an understanding that my life was not controlled from the things that happen to me, but instead was controlled by the way I think about the things that have happened to me.

That was enough to see that I have a choice in this situation to be positive or to give up. I’ve chosen positivity through kindness and gratitude and my experience has changed because of that choice 🙏

If you are going through some really crap times right now just remember that if you keep yourself positive no matter how dire it may seem you experience will be much better because of that choice you make.🙏

I wonder how many people reading this are wasting their precious time. So many people are suffering and want to end their lives. You just can not do that, the gift of life is so precious you can’t throw it away, you just can’t 😢

Go out, get some exercise in, walk in nature, sing at the top of your voice,🎶 smile at everyone you meet,😄 be kind to total strangers, laugh and dance in the rain,🌧️🌦️🌈 skip for joy, embarrass yourself, and don’t worry about what any one thinks of you, when you hear a joke laugh like it’s the funniest thing you’ve ever heard, get up for sun rise, don’t miss the sunset 🌅, walk with your head in the stars not in the ground ✨🌠, tell yourself you are enough, you are brave, you are invincible and live life like it’s your last day left on earth.💃🕺

I read once that at the end of our life we would all be asked three questions 

If I died tomorrow how many of those questions would I answer yes too would be two.

I’m grateful for a chance to get the third one sorted out.❤️