My Car, a Canada Goose, and Life Lessons

Yesterday morning, I was driving my car in the morning rush hour. Suddenly, I saw a flock of Canada Geese crossing the road. I attempted to detour around the geese to avoid hitting them, but there was a Canada Goose following farther behind the flock that I couldn't avoid hitting.

I heard a thump on my car bumper, and the Canada Goose was knocked to the left shoulder of the road. I looked in my rear-view mirror and saw the goose lying there weakly flapping one of its wings.

I felt terrible, since I thought that I may have killed the Canada Goose. I never killed an animal before while driving my car. I can usually spot an animal at a safe distance and avoid hitting it.

Then I started pondering that life is often unpredictable and short. Anyone or anything can die at anytime. Not too long ago, I lost a good friend to stomach cancer. She was young, didn't smoke, only drank socially, and jogged everyday. Everyone that knew her was shocked, since she was always a picture of good health.

Indeed, life can be unpredictable and short. We can go at anytime. Therefore, we shouldn't waste our life on foolishness. Instead, we should spend our life on things that matter most.

Any one of us at anytime can be that Canada Goose.

Why do bad things happen to good people?

I had an especially challenging day today. My car was having trouble, so I dropped it off at a local car repair shop this morning.

When I walked back to my apartment, I noticed that my apartment was having trouble, since maintenance workers were taking a part of my wall out to get to some water pipes.

To top this off, I stayed up around the clock last night to catch up on paperwork at my workplace, and was beyond tired. Today was my day off, so I figured that I would drop my car off to get fixed, then would catch up on some sleep in my nice quiet apartment.

But wait! It doesn't stop there. Though I dropped my car off at the car repair shop at 8:00 AM, they called my cell phone at 2:00 PM to tell me that they haven't worked on it yet! In addition, they tell me that a much bigger problem is preventing them from working on the initial problem, and that I would have to leave my car there for a few days and fork over an additional $500.

Say whaaat? I told them to forget it.

Now why can't I have a life free of hassle? Why must things go wrong? Why do bad things have to happen? I pondered this until a flash went off in my head. Then I remembered reading "The Science of Success" by James Arthur Ray.

In it, he was discussing the seven Super Laws. And one of the Super Laws that stuck out was the Law of Polarity. This law basically states that nothing can exist without its opposite! Right away, dualities started popping into my head: light-darkness, male-female, alpha-omega, sun-moon, success-failure, rich-poor, and so on.

Then it hit me! Good things and bad things are dualities of each other. In fact, they are one and the same. If you're a negative thinker, you'll see things as bad. If you're a positive thinker, you'll look for some benefits in what has happened. And if you look hard enough, you'll find them.

I immediately applied this to the "bad" events of my day and began to see them as "good" events, in that I started seeing how these events could benefit me.

So the next time you're going through a bad situation, ask yourself "How is this benefiting me?" And if you look hard enough, you'll see the benefits.

Al A. Gammate
http://www.theguaranteedcure.com/