Have now finished reading through Michael J Fox’s new memoir for the second time. It is entitled Always looking up: The adventures of an incurable optimist. It taught me a lot about American politics, Parkinson’s Disease and being hopeful. There was also an interesting section on religion. One of his sayings that I rather like is this:
Happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance and in inverse proportion to your expectation.
He is talking about the situation he and many others find themselves in with serious illness. There is nothing he can do about having the disease – you get it and that is that. But you do have a great deal of influence on outcomes by the choices you make about how to handle it. Incidentally, there are a lot of interviews with him shown on youtube. Well worth a look.