Today’s Thought: We Have a Choice

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

NOTE: We’ve all been there. We’ve been in situations where we face situations that are impossible to change for the foreseeable future. It’s as if our patience and endurance is being tested. We may have wondered how much more can we take. When we can’t change the situation we are not without choices. We can give up, we can act as if we are martyrs and complain, or we can make the best of it. My mom and dad are inspirations to me because they chose to make the best of their situations. They were born into poverty in immigrant families. They found work, menial as it was. They raised my brother and me in poverty, but we never knew we were poor. They never talked about being poor. They never complained about their menial factory jobs or living in a four room cold water flat. They went out and did what they had to do day after day. Their lives taught me important lessons. You keep grinding when you can’t do anything else. You don’t dwell on the negative. You grab hold of the good whenever it comes your way.