look for the good

I was watching a old clip of Ellen Degenerous interviewing an inspiring young man called Emeka. He fell while playing football and broke his spine and instead of feeling sorry for himself, he started helping youth.

He said something so profound: if you lose your wallet, get a flat tyre or something bad and someone asks you how was your day, you'd say, "Terrible, I lost my wallet, had a flat tyre etc." But if after a month, someone asks you how your month was, you wouldn't even remember the flat tyre, lost wallet etc. 

But if you helped someone, you would remember and we say, "This month I assisted this and that person, I gave to this and that person."

In life we come across different situations that are tough, but its important to remember life is like a roller coaster: sometimes we are down but it always also goes up. Sometimes in life things look hopeless, with no hope, and then something good out of the blue happens.

An example is when I was dating Esther. I came with two suitcases to the UK. My brother was supposed to send them down to Manchester so I could take the coach, a cheep way to travel. But my brother's left went earlier then expected, so I was stuck with no recourse but to pay a fortune for the train. I thought, at the time, that this was terrible, but at the station I met a woman and kid who was stranded as she had brought her return ticket for wrong day. I immediately I paid for her ticket and later she gave a wedding present that we use every week to this day!

If I had taken the coach, this woman would have remained stranded.

Once in Israel, I missed a bus by a few seconds. Five minutes later, there was a bomb on the bus I was supposed to be on!

 Life can seem bad, but there's good in everything, we just don't always see it.

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