The Quality of Life ✨✨

I This 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with her hair fashionably coiffed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home yesterday. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. ✨
After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. ✨As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window.✨ “I love it,” she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.✨
“Mrs. Jones, you haven’t seen the room …. just wait.”✨
“That doesn’t have anything to do with it,” she replied.✨ “Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. ✨Whether I like my room or not doesn’t depend on how the furniture is arranged, it’s how I arrange my mind.✨ I already decided to love it.✨ It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up.✨ I have a choice;
I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. ✨Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I’ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I’ve stored away, just for this time in my life.”✨✨
She went on to explain, “Old age is like a bank account, you withdraw from what you’ve put in.✨✨ So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories ✨✨Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing.”✨✨
And with a smile, she said: “Remember the five simple rules to be happy:✨

Free your heart from hatred.✨

Free your mind from worries. ✨
Live simply. ✨

Give more. ✨

Expect less, & enjoy every moment. ✨