Good morning:
A) Vietnam!
B) Sports Fans!
C) Ladies and Gentlemen, Children of All Ages!
D) Sunshine!
Pick whichever one that suits you.
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If you picked A), you obviously watched or at least heard the familiar cry before of Robin Williams Vietnam Comedy.
If you picked B) its in most American movies with a sports theme.
If you picked C) that makes no sense because most boxing matches occur at night
If you picked D) you've listened to a cheery song that has those words. Good for you.
But there is a point (and mayhap even a method) to this madness that is this blog post.
It's that no matter what I say, that these thoughts, are just my point of view.
However you interpret it, whether you believe me or shut me down as completely ridiculous, that is your point of view.
Point of views are funny things (and no, I'm not talking about the POV's that you find in pornography's. Thats something for another day in another blog that probably requires some sort of rating system).
Its that there are so many ways of looking at a certain event, even though the facts may be the same for everybody.
Chicken Soup for the Soul has a story (even if you have read it before, don't skip this, its relevant for class discussion later) where after their car in the garage was totally wrecked by (can't remember this too clearly, but hey, its just details) another car? nature?
In any case, the husband and wife are just standing there staring at the car sorrowfully, when suddenly the husband just starts smiling and cracking up.
The wife looks at him as if he's just gone crazy (heck, I would) and asks him whats wrong?
He replies, "Well honey, the facts are that we have a car that has been completely totalled and we can choose to be sad or we CAN CHOOSE to be happy, either way, we have a completely wrecked car".
If it hasn't dawned in your brain yet, the moral of the story is that
We can't change facts, we can change we react to them and how they affect us.
Its hopeless being overtly optimistic or pessimistic about the outcome of a certain event. We can't possibly know whats going to happen in the future (although we can reasonably predict it with the benefit of experience and stories that are parallel and careful research and planning and ya-da ya-da ya-da), sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't.
But either way, whatever the facts show, WE HAVE A CHOICE of how we want to feel about it.
And oh yeah, in any case, this is just my point of view.