When We Look Positively at Adversity
One night in the winter of 1978, John, the 65-year-old man and famous writer, sat at his work table in his home and began writing: “During the past year, I underwent surgery to remove my gallbladder, and then spent many months on... I went to bed sick and suffered a lot, I reached the age of 65, which prompted me to leave my distinguished job in the publishing house where I had worked for forty years.
In this same year, my father died, and my daughter did not pass her medical school exams because she stopped studying for several months following a car accident.
Then at the end of the page he wrote a note that said: “It's been a really tough year!” He made a miserable face
At that time, his wife entered the room and noticed his distraction. She approached quietly and read what he wrote, then left without uttering a word.
Moments later, she returned carrying another piece of paper and placed it quietly next to the paper her husband had written and left the room quietly. The husband held the paper to read what she had written, and found it: “During the past year, you recovered from your long suffering with gallbladder pain, and you have reached the age of sixty-five, and you are... In good health, which allowed you to devote yourself to writing and writing, especially after agreeing with a famous publishing house to publish several of your important books.
Your father lived a long life until the age of eighty-five without burdening anyone, and he passed away quietly and without pain. Your daughter survived a horrific car accident and made a full recovery without any disabilities.
His wife concluded her message by saying: “It was a year in which our good fortune was stronger than all our adversities.” She drew a smiling, optimistic face.
Yes.. This is how we must always see that we are blessed with many great gifts and great goodness, while others see them as tribulations that bring nothing but evil and a miserable life.
* From world literature: short stories with a great lesson *