Today I realized that one has to work at everything. Attitude is not something you are born with, it is a matter of choice.

You can chose to be positive, or let yourself go to pieces. It is hard work, you know - trying to achieve that degree of optimism that makes you notice all the good things that are there around you. Because they are there - just a question of coming out of this self-induced state of self-pity and glancing around.

Today, I chose to glance around and was surprised.