HEY THERE, PUT ON A SMILE!

The world is the best place for everyone to be and living in it. It is a blessing in disguise. Just think of this: waking up to the beautiful smiles and faces walking the streets; the sweet little boy who delivers your favorite newspaper on your doorstep every morning or the coffee vendor just across the street who makes the best espresso around.

Moreover, take a moment and think of life’s best moments; when your baby does her first walk, when they say their first word or grow their first tooth, think of those wedding occasions when everyone is all smiles and cheerful for the newly-weds. Some will cry but those are unmistakably tears of joy.  Reminisce about those family get- together where you gather to catch up on old time’s and give thanks to God for having brought all of you this far. Still not convinced, what about those awkward situations you were once in that bring you ripples of laughter every time you think about them. How about your first kiss with that someone special or the first day you fell in love. You just got to have that one thing in life that makes it worth your being around.

Believe it or not, life has the best of everyone’s interest at heart. There is that one place in life where you will get your Zen and peace and total satisfaction. That unique place that gives you wonderful opportunities to catapult you to greater prosperity or that fountain of solace that will give you a breather from life’s trying moments. One may say this is contradictory; that life is pleasing and annoying at the same time.

If you ask me I think am getting the gist of life. Like everybody else I’ve gone through trying times; times I’ve looked right, left and there was no one to get me out of the pit of dismay; times I’ve cried to the high heavens to send a rain of hope to my once draught and desolate life; times like everybody else I’ve had to ask this question “Is Life worth it?”.

But hey! Wait, notice the word ‘everybody’ in the above sentence? That’s right everybody, everybody has problems just like you have. Just when you think life has given you a bag full of Lemons you discover someone with sacks upon sacks of them! Bottom line, everybody has a story to share, so you are never alone in this life.

Like everybody else, you have joys and pains; ups and downs; penniless moments followed by moments of financial breakthroughs; times we laugh times we cry; the complete package of life.

“Where am I getting with this?” you might wonder, but I only have one message; put on a smile! Don’t let your debts steal your joy or irrational spouse worry you thin. Don’t worry about that exam or if she is going to say yes or not. I say put on a smile to life’s trials; face every day with a positive attitude; let go and let God; put your foot down and life will bow to you, show life your weakness and it will toss you around; when life gives you lemons…………… am pretty sure you know how that ends.

Am not saying I don’t have trials at the moment, in fact; I’m facing one as I type this. But am I going to let it bother me, Not at all! I’ll think of my amazing friends, or the awkward situations I’ve found myself in sometimes back that make me laugh, I’ll think of my relationship with God and how wonderful He is to me, I’ll celebrate my successes in the past, the present and the ones to come; better still am going to think of my lovely fiancée, who has been a pillar of hope in my life. And am equally her Oasis in these parched times. I have problems and I am happy, Period.

So don’t worry, put on a smile; even the big guy up in heaven told us so in the great book.