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is FORMED in one's life.  "Attitude" is the shape that our world-view, our life-project and our life-style has taken (more about this later).  You were not born with an attitude.  You got it from the way you interacted with your society and from some other things that you "caught" from the the significant people in your life.

You wrote:  "We cannot change the past.  We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.  We cannot change the inevitable." There is no such thing as the inevitable.  Your statement is taken from a world-view that is deterministic.  Are we not free? 

posted by Friar__Tuck on March 9, 2004 at 9:05 AM | link to this | reply

IMO, happiness is directly related to attitude.  We live in a society today that totally abuses anti-depressants and is full of people who just don't know what makes them happy.  Here's a little something I have posted on my office wall I read it and that usually lifts my spirits. . .

ATTITUDE:

Attitude, to me is more important than facts.  It is more important than education, than money, than circumstances.  It can make or break a company, a church, a home.

The amazing thing is that we have a choice, every day, regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.  We cannot change the past.  We cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.  We cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we can do is play on the one thing we have, and that it is our attitude.  I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.  And so it is with you.  We are in charge of our attitudes.  (Charles Swindoll)

Hope you like it, too.

posted by starlajade on March 9, 2004 at 7:21 AM | link to this | reply