Don’t let things ruin you day. There is a popular Zen story that explains this. One day, an old lady woke up with only 3 hairs on her head. So she decided to braid them and went off to work and had a great day. The next day, she woke up with 2 hairs on her head. She happily said “Great, now I can part it down the middle and made pigtails”. She went off to work and had a great day. The next day, she woke up with only 1 hair on her head. She said “Great, I will put it in a ponytail today.” She did and went off to work and had a great day. The next day, she woke up with no hair. So with a smile she said “Great! Now I don’t have to do my hair today.” She went off to work and had an amazing day.
Even though something terrible happened to this lady, she shook if off and didn’t let it ruin her day. I can guarantee that a most of us would have let losing our hair ruin our day, but we all need to learn to live our lives like this lady. Attitude is everything. We need to be grateful for the things that we do have and not let the things that go wrong, tear us down. When we do let these things tear us down, it domino effects. It makes us miserable with then makes the people around us miserable.
In order to keep this from happening, we need to not sweat the small stuff or let the big stuff get to us.
that message comes at a great time for me. thanks for sharing!
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