This is a bit impromptu, because I had what I was going to write all laid out. But then, that’s the thing about life. You have it all planned out. Then a single switch happens in a second, and then whatever grand plans you had laid out becomes altered. Good or bad, we’ve got to give life credit. On how easily and swiftly it makes us evolve. On all the lessons we can learn in a single second. I learnt something huge yesterday, and I’ll get to that in a bit.
You know, I feel like a lot of times, we don’t give proper credit to the forces behind things that happen in our lives. We’re not grateful enough. I grew up in a very religious background and my Dad is a Minister of the gospel. So, one of the things you’d hear him say is that the reason why you’ve got to be thankful even when it’s bad, is because it could have been worse. You got into an accident and lost an arm, but God is the reason you didn’t lose your life. Or maybe you were robbed of one thing, but God is the reason you weren’t robbed of everything.
This post is not a religious one, so I’ll get to the point which is that, we have reason to smile every day. Smile and be hopeful. Because no matter what we’re facing, it could always be worse. And there is always someone that has it way worse than we do. It’s an uplifting thought if we think about it critically. That no matter what bad you think of that could happen to you, there are always worse things that could have happened.
Like you don’t have food, but at least you have shelter. Or you may not have money, but at least you’re not in debt. Or you’re in debt, but at least people’s money didn’t get stolen from you and now you can’t sleep cause they are on your neck. And maybe the money got stolen, but you can at least move around to hustle for it, and you’re not on a wheelchair without ability to be mobile.
I’ve shared this before of when I got into a bike accident in 2021. It feels like a lifetime ago now. My little sisters were on that bike with me and when the oncoming car tossed me onto the road, and even afterwards while I got stitches, screaming in pain because the surgeon thought he’d given me enough anaesthesia but he didn’t, and I had to endure each poke of the needle, I kept thinking to myself and wondering...
What if one of my sisters were tossed onto the road, instead of me? What if it were any of them? Would I have been able to bear it or forgive myself? Even with the pain, I thought of all the worse things that could have happened. What if I didn’t hear that voice that kept telling me to roll off the tarred road? And the moment I did, just before I lost consciousness, a huge trailer zoomed past.
There are always worse things that can happen. So, be thankful for wherever you are now. No matter how bad it is. Always remember, that you could have faired worse. Or the matter escalated in a way you can’t control.
Yesterday night, my ATM was stolen and all the money I had in my account wiped out. But then, I thought to myself...What if @deraaa didn’t motivate me a few days before to transfer my school fees out to another bank account so that I wouldn’t use it accidentally? Or what if the money I had been expecting from a relative didn’t come later instead of earlier? Or what if I had accepted that position in school that required me to be in charge of other students’ money? What would I have done? Yeah, I’ve lost my feeding money for the next two weeks, but it could have been way worse. It could have been far too terrible and unsalvageable.
These things happen and I have one more reason to be happy and thankful that yeah, it was bad, but something far more terrible could have happened. @tengolotodo said something about laughing through everything. And that’s what I’m doing now. Laughing through it no matter what happens, and being thankful while I’m at it. Because I can. Let’s live more with that consciousness, people. It may not be better, but it could have been worse.
Jhymi🖤
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