I was driving on my lunch break the other day, eating a banana when I came across the dreaded "soft spot" on the banana. You know what I'm talking about that rotten or bruised patch that's a little brownish and not looking real appetizing. So anyway, I get to that spot and normally I'd cut out that spot and throw it away but I'm driving and don't have that luxury. So after debating in my mind for.... a few seconds, I decided to get over my "soft spot" stereotypes and go ahead and eat it. So I just took one huge bite so that the nasty part would be mixed in with a lot of the good stuff on the banana. And my plan worked, I didn't gag and realized that the rotten part wasn't so bad when it was mixed in with a lot of the good stuff.
I say all of that to get to this point: sometimes we're in the middle of a bad situation and everything seems terrible. We can't see any positives because we're so caught up with what we're going through at that time. We need to realize that in even in a bad situation, there are so many good things around us that the bad part doesn't seem so bad any more. When we realize that the bad stuff is usually outnumbered by the good stuff, we tend to be more grateful. Next time when we're in that "soft spot" in our life, take a second to step back and think of all of the good things that you have and when you take it all in in one bite, the bad becomes a little easier to swallow.
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