Tess Explains It All

Today my yoga instructor told me this amazing story about her friend who was just having an awful week. She had a ton of things that kept popping up that she needed to get done or fixed. Then she had a meeting with a woman at the Los Angeles Observatory, which can be a bit of a drive mid-day in Hollywood traffic. She drove to her meeting and didnt know that the person who was supposed to meet her, had emailed her to cancel. Not call, not text, but email. Who checks their email every second, right? 

She gets all the way up there and discovers it was a waste of time because the person isn’t coming. She decides to sit down at a nearby cafe and get a bite to eat. And as she was sitting there, all of a sudden out of the corner of her eye she sees movement and something flying down the sidewalk. Without hesitation or thinking, she grabbed that moving object.

Well guess what it is! A freaking baby stroller!! A mom had forgotten to put the breaks on the stroller, the stroller was on a steep hill and off it went, speeding down the hill! This woman reached out and grabbed it and stopped the stroller! She basically saved this baby’s life. Isn’t that amazing?!?!

Now if that isn’t a life lesson, then I don’t know what is.  Even in your darkest moment, or when you think everything around you and in your life is going wrong, a moment happens that makes you realize there is a silver lining. My yoga instructor’s friend saw the positive in the situation and said to herself “I was meant to be here. Even in all my frustration, I was supposed to go through all of this so I could be here to save that baby from tragedy.”

Now we’re not always going to have some stand-out epic moment that makes us easily see this realization. But it’s a nice reminder to always look for your silver lining. Whether large or small, if you take the time to notice, it can make a huge difference in the your mood and give you inspiration for the day.