If you are like so many people, you'll probably reply, "You've gotta be kidding! Absolutely not!"
Well, I'm here to tell you that you are. You can never control all the circumstances that are going to happen to you in this lifetime, but you do control your reactions to any given situation. That means you actually do control your life and how you perceive it.
Knowing this fact, I would like to close by sharing a special story with you. Once upon a time there was a wise old man who lived at the top of a mountain. This wise old man meditated and shared valuable insights about life with people from a nearby village.
One day, three teenagers decided to trick the wise old man. One of the boys said, "This old man thinks he knows everything. Well, I'll show him. I'm going to hold a bird behind my back and ask the old man if the bird is alive or dead. If he says it's alive, I'll crush the bird. If he says it's dead, I'll let the bird fly." With the plan set, the three boys climbed to the top of the mountain. There they saw the wise old man meditating in peaceful splendor. The boys walked over to the man, and the one boy asked, "Wise old man, what do I have in my hand?"
Because the wise old man knew everything, he continued looking straight ahead and said, "It's a bird, my son."
Now the boy winked at his two mates and said, "Wise old man, is the bird alive, or is it dead?" The wise old man turned and looked the boy right in the eye and said, 'The answer is in your hands, my son."
I tell you that story for many reasons, but mainly to convey that, like the boy with the bird, the answer to your destiny is in your hands. As you close the cover on this book, you have the choice to do several things:
- You can use the information for guidance
- You can share it with others, or
- You could actually destroy it, never to think of it again.
