117 vehicle! Your inner person is what’s essential and that is what you must care for and tend to. Smile at yourself, praise yourself and give yourself courage! Life is hard enough as it is. Only have positive things to say about yourself and your abilities, about your body and your organs. This will give you a lift and it will strengthen you. The situation with me is: Now that I am old, I have made it a habit of only saying good things about my body, about my organs, my eyes and I praise them for the good work that they do. “My dear brave feet, you have been carrying me for many decades!” Is this naïve? If you like! But it feels good and it gives me a good feeling in regards to being a human being. And remember the blessing of gratefulness! Gratefulness lifts up. Believe me when I say that those that live with the basic attitude of gratefulness live better and easier! You think that you have nothing to be grateful for? Look around! Have a good look! You will then see all the things that you could be grateful for! Do you have water on tap like me? Even warm water? And electricity? Or do you have to carry the ash outside and fetch wood inside so that you can start cooking? Something my generation knows all about? To find something to be grateful for every day is part of the art of living well! My dear, strong mother mastered this very well, even during the time right after the war as a widow with four children and suffering great poverty. *
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