Life is full of a great number of things. Things that we can see and touch and those that we simply feel. Some of these things we call good and some are considered bad. And how our life will be depends on what we choose.

Let us take a small incident for example. A man wakes up one hour late on one morning because his alarm fails
to ring. These are the two ways in which his day could unfold:

Scenario 1: He rushes to the bathroom and does everything with extreme hurry. In the process he cuts himself while he shaves. He blames the blade for the mistake and dresses hurriedly and comes down for breakfast.

During breakfast, his little girl spills coffee on his shirt. He scolds his daughter for being careless for 10 minutes and then goes back up to change. His daughter begins crying. He pacifies her and finds that his daughter has missed the school bus because of his little lecture. So he drops his daughter in school and then rushes to the office. The boss is mad at him because he is late and forces more work on him.

He works over time and comes home. His wife welcomes him. He vents the anger he feels for his boss on his wife. She scolds him back and leaves. He goes to bed, got-tired, unhappy, frustrated, irritated and totally stressed out.

Scenario 2: He goes to the bathroom and instead of rushing everything, concentrates on each task. Because he concentrated on his work, he shaves carefully and gets dressed as efficiently as possible and comes down for breakfast.

During breakfast, his daughter spills coffee on his shirt. He smiles at her, rubs her hair and asks her to be more careful next time. The daughter feels relieved but has learnt her lesson. He goes up quickly to change. When he comes down, his daughter waves smilingly at him as she boards her school bus. He goes a little late to the office, so the boss is not very angry.

He comes home slightly tired because of the work and pressure. His wife welcomes him. He in turn smiles at her and shares his day. She listens to him and helps him relax with some soothing words. He goes to bed, tired, but happy, contented and peaceful.

In both these instances, the situations were the same. He woke up late, had coffee spilt, faced an angry boss and had a hectic day. But what made the difference between the first and the second scenario is the choice he made of how to handle them.

Things go wrong many times in one's life. What matters is how you handle the difficulties. You can either get tensed up, angry and upset. Or you could simply take it as another interesting chapter of your life and smile through the day while you doing what you can