Nick was a strong, healthy and ambitious young railroad yardman. He had a reputation for being a diligent hard worker who had a loving wife and two children and many friends. One midsummer day, the train crews were informed that they could quit an hour early in honour of the foreman's birthday. While performing one last check on some of the railroad cars, Nick was accidentally locked in a refrigerator boxcar. When he realized that the rest of the workmen had left the site, Nick began to panic.
He banged and shouted the until his fists were bloody and his voice was hoarse,but no one heard him. WIth his knowledge of the "numbers and the facts," he predicted the temperature to be zero degrees. Nick's thought was "If I can't get out, I'll freeze to death in here". Wanting to let his wife and family know exactly what happened to him, Nick found a knife and began to write on the wooden floor of the boxcar. He wrote, 'Its so cold, my body is getting numb. If I could just go to sleep. These may be my last words.'
The next morning, the crew slid open the heavy doors of the boxcar and found Nick dead. An autopsy revealed that every physical sign of his body indicated he had frozen to death and yet the refrigeration unit of the car was inoperative; and the temperature inside indicated 55 degrees Fahrenheit . Nick had killed himself by the power of his own thoughts.
You too, if your not careful, can kill yourself with your limiting thoughts - not all at once like Nick but little by little if you don't watch your thoughts. Your thoughts can make or mar you; watch your thoughts.