Last night I was talking with a friend who is always an upbeat happy person. As we were eating dinner and catching up she told me how things had been going for her lately and things were not good. She and her boyfriend of a few years had just broken up, her job was suddenly up in the air after the owner of the company decided to she wanted to sell it and lastly her landlord had asked her to move because he was needing his home back for personal reasons.
If this had been me, you would have found me in sweatpants, laying in bed with a glass no scratch that, bottle of wine and lots of frustrated stressed out tears. But my friend was SO optimistic despite all she was facing in such a short amount of time. She has given herself one week to decide what she wants to do with her life and three months to decide if Asheville is where she wants to stay. She sees so many opportunities here but also sees so many outside of this mountain town.
After all this happened she packed up her car and drove from Georgia to Utah with her best friend and then basically went where the road took her. She went to Nevada, California and so many places she had never been that really opened her up to the opportunities we have in life. I think sometimes we see hardships as so life altering but what if we started taking those tough stressful situations and turned them into positives.
Sometimes I let the smallest most miniscule things ruin my mood and after talking with her last night I realized that I need to stop letting those things bother me the way they do. No, I haven't experienced anything quite like she has in the last few weeks but seeing how open minded to life and what it was throwing at her was really eye opening. We have a lot to be grateful for and I think way too often we take that for granted. Maybe instead of letting the negatives make us negative we should embrace what life throws at us and make opportunities out of crappy situations.
If this had been me, you would have found me in sweatpants, laying in bed with a glass no scratch that, bottle of wine and lots of frustrated stressed out tears. But my friend was SO optimistic despite all she was facing in such a short amount of time. She has given herself one week to decide what she wants to do with her life and three months to decide if Asheville is where she wants to stay. She sees so many opportunities here but also sees so many outside of this mountain town.
After all this happened she packed up her car and drove from Georgia to Utah with her best friend and then basically went where the road took her. She went to Nevada, California and so many places she had never been that really opened her up to the opportunities we have in life. I think sometimes we see hardships as so life altering but what if we started taking those tough stressful situations and turned them into positives.
Sometimes I let the smallest most miniscule things ruin my mood and after talking with her last night I realized that I need to stop letting those things bother me the way they do. No, I haven't experienced anything quite like she has in the last few weeks but seeing how open minded to life and what it was throwing at her was really eye opening. We have a lot to be grateful for and I think way too often we take that for granted. Maybe instead of letting the negatives make us negative we should embrace what life throws at us and make opportunities out of crappy situations.