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Given a second chance
Submitted by: Alberto Torres
Pittsburgh PAI am an u.s.m.c. veteran. I am also a c. n. a. for about 17 years.
Before I started to read The Secret book my life was very bad, so bad that I have attempted to commit suicide several times. My ex wife left me after 27 years being married. I tried to do any drugs to kill myself, I also drunk anything to kill myself, lived in the streets, had no job, no family, friends, just me.
Well one day I went to a thrift store and there I found The Secret book. I had nothing to do so I started to read the book. Then it happened… for the first time I started to think about staying alive. I wrote to the president of the church I went to before. He wrote back and said, “You should accept the things you can not change, and change the things you can, like your thoughts.”
Well with the book and the letter from the president of the church, I started to change. I have my nursing job again that I love and worked for 17 years. I have an apartment of my own for the first time in my life. I see life with joy and love that I feel so lucky to still be alive.
THANK YOU I am so alive today that I give thanks for breathing air and everything all around me. God bless you all. By the way, I don’t drink, do drugs or smoke cigarettes, or even drink coffee. I am free to be me. THANK YOU again.