KEEP YOUR COOL

KEEP YOUR COOL

Never allow adversity of any magnitude whatsoever weigh you down. Always remind yourself that you have an inherent ability or grace to handle any problem or challenge that comes your way. Always keep your cool. Pull yourself together and stay in charge at all cost.

Adversity’s most potent weapon against man is panic. Once you allow it to overpower you it masterminds you ruin. However, if you keep your cool and stay right on track, you will find a silver lining in every cloud of despair. Just everything that happens under the sun is for your good, no matter how bad it looks on arrival.

Be like Viktor Frankl. Humiliated, tortured and frustrated by the Nazis, the Austria born Jewish psychiatrist lost all but his cool. Despite the gruesome murder of his parents, brother and pregnant wife, Frankl was determined to turn all to his good. He focused on a glorious future beyond the concentration camp. Instead of to crack in despair, the young doctor chose to encourage every other Jew he could reach out to in the concentration camp. Frankl also recorded, on smuggled pieces of paper, his theories, experiments and experiences, which he later made use of in his books.

            At the end of the war, with Hitler dead, Frankl returned to Vienna and became Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School – a position he retained for the rest of his career. Asked how he endured such cruel treatment with a positive outlook, Frankl replied, “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedom is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances to choose one’s own way”.

            Choose your own way. Choose right. Choose to stay positive and hopeful at all cost. Choose joy. Choose a genial disposition. Choose happiness. Choose a positive mental attitude. At the long run, it all boils down to your reaction to what happened to you. What happens to you is not as important as how you react to it. Like the woman whose only son died, shout it loud and clear to everyone’s hearing “It is well”.

            Always remember, every evil is some good spelt backward from which the wise read wisdom. Just every problem has a solution only if we perhaps change our negative attitude toward it.