Sometimes your Best Weapon against Chaos is your smile…

My Best Weapon Against Chaos: 

Good morning, folks! I am Jin with Morning Mindfulness Podcast. Hope you are doing fabulous today! Let’s breathe and smile.

I think I need to start a book of genius quotes I found in different cartoons, that resonated in me. One of them I’d like to discuss today. That is famous “Just smile and wave, boys, smile and wave!” from “Madagascar”

One of the virtues I did not have as a kid, was good self esteem. I could not tolerate offensive jokes about myself, and in many cases I just did not know how to answer. I did not grow up being street smart. In fact, I was quite opposite to that.

I finally realized that I could not control others, but I could change my own behavior patterns. And I did. My first technique was to learn laughing at myself in case I got in a really awkward situation. Because if I laugh then nobody else will have any interest.

I started learning to smile when I simply don’t know how to react to something said to me. And I’ve done it as a kid, all the way through high school and even military.

However my real test was scheduled for much later, when I was hit by life pretty hard. That was time when people were looking at me and shaking their heads.

Not much I could do then. And that was time when I developed this attitude: Just Smile and Wave.

What else could I do? It was out of my control, I couldn’t change anything, complaining wouldn’t do any good anyway. So, my best option was to smile, no matter what happened.

Think about it, my friend. Sometimes we find ourselves in the middle of emotional hurricane when we don’t know what to do and where to get started. I’d say, start right where you are.
“How are you doing?”
“Fantastic”
And just smile. No need to rebuttal, prove anything or say a final word. Life is good as it is!

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PEACE!
Jin

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