Making the best of a bad situation

Is the glass half full or half empty? I don’t know, couldn’t I just answer ‘yes’ to that question? That’ll really get the philosophy professors in a snit. “You can’t answer ‘yes’ to an either or question”, they’ll say. But I mean, both are right, aren’t they? People think they’re so clever sometimes when they present us with false dichotomies. Of course, I understand the point of it. It’s meant to be a reflection of how we view life and our perspective on it. And there is a point to it. We should draw the positives from life whenever we can. And sometimes, even if the glass were completely empty, we should be glad we at least have the glass.

I’m pretty fortunate. I know that. But I try to draw life lessons from wherever I can. In thinking about bad situations, my mind immediately went back to a time when I was in about the fourth grade. We had a bad winter storm which resulted in us being without power for about two days. If I remember right, I think we might have had a couple feet of snow on the ground after it was all said and done. So, as a result, we were also blocked in. We weren’t going anywhere, and we weren’t going to be passing the time by watching any TV. My parents, my brother and I were presented with an unusual scenario: what to do when a wrench gets thrown in the works of the normal family paradigm. Like animals in a cage, we couldn’t escape the situation, and we couldn’t distract ourselves with that reliable hamster wheel known as television. This required some inventiveness and creativity.
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What resulted were some things I’ll never forget. Our first concern was how to eat. While we had enough to eat, our normal means of cooking was out the window. Thankfully, we had a wood-burning stove. This would serve as our cooking stove for a couple of meals. I think we had some form of Cowboy meal. I guess it metaphorically represented our version of ‘roughing it’. I suppose our next concern was how to pass the time. Here, we didn’t disappoint. I believe we played some board games. Then, for some reason, we ended up cleaning a bunch of junk out of one of our closets. Mostly what I remember about this was that it somehow culminated in my brother and I plastering our Dad with ‘Mr. Yuck’ stickers we had found in there. Yeah, I’m pretty sure we’ve still got some pictures of that. When all else fails, pick on your parents, right?

The interesting thing is that what was a bad situation ended up providing me with some of my fondest memories of childhood. For a bad situation—if we were to make the best of it—I think we rose to the occasion. What we couldn’t help, we didn’t get all bent out of shape over it. What we could do to improve it, we placed all our efforts towards that. And if you can create some life-long memories, I think you’ve successfully made the best of it.

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