Hey everyone.
Sorry it’s been a bit; it’s been an interesting couple of weeks.
Have you ever felt as though you are working so hard at something yet the outcome isn’t what you wanted? Well it happens to me many times and if you said no than you are lying to yourself. Sometimes things go wrong or are harder than you expected, but you see that’s life. If everything was easy or perfect all the time than in the end it wouldn’t mean that much to you.
There is this saying that I have heard time and time again. It says: For every cloudy day there is a silver lining. I always thought that a silver lining would have to be big and grand, but it doesn’t always have to be. It could be something small. Like if you are a driver for a city bus and you have been driving for hours and then finally someone says thank you for the ride or have a nice day. I take three city buses every day to and from school, and I like to people watch. Over the course of the hour it takes me to get to school I would probably see at least 100 people get on and off the city bus, but only maybe 15-20 people might thank the bus driver (Or even talk at all). I know it’s his job and all, but that doesn’t mean you can’t say something to him.
Last week my teacher asked to see me. I thought it might have to with my final exam that I was restudying for (see I took my final exam about two weeks ago and failed it, but because I just failed (43%) I’m allowed to redo the exam. This was my first silver lining). I thought he was going to tell me that I needed to do in the next day or so, which I thought would be too soon because I decided that I would study way better than the first time around. Which meant starting from the beginning, and I was only on chapter two of nine. (Here’s the thing with me I’m not good at exams. It seems no matter how much I study, as soon as the exam is placed in front of me I forget everything). Anyway back to my story. The teacher called me up to his desk. He told me that every month the school picks a student as “the student of the month” and for my hard work and determination and great attendance, I was that student for the month of November. He told me that the certificate would be posted outside of student services. You know to some it’s just a piece of paper, but to me it was a silver lining to a few cloudy days.
Life is always going to have cloudy days most might come from self-doubt (which mine at that point was coming from), but the thing is if you can make cloudy days then you can make silver linings too. Sometimes to do that it is to make a silver lining for someone else. It’s that easy (here is a hint start by using your manners and smiling).
I task you to try it and see, how after a week or so, you could start feeling better.
Until Next Time.
