A teacher was beginning her class at 8am. She cheerfully asked the students how their weekend had been. One young man said that his weekend had not been very good. He'd had his wisdom teeth extracted. The young man then proceeded to ask the teacher why he always seemed to be so cheerful. She said, “Every morning when you get up, you have a choice about how you want to approach life that day, how you choose to see the world.", The teacher said to the young man. "I choose to be cheerful". "Let me give you an example.”
As soon as I got to school today, I called AAA and asked them to send a tow truck. The secretary in the Provost's office asked me what had happened. "This is my lucky day", I replied, smiling. "Your car breaks down and today is your lucky day??" She said. "What do you mean?"
"I live 17 miles from here", I replied. "My car could have broken down anywhere along the freeway. It didn't. Instead, it broke down in the perfect place: off the freeway, within walking distance of here. I'm still able to teach my class, and I've been able to arrange for the tow truck to meet me after class. If my car was meant to break down today, it couldn't have been arranged in a more convenient fashion." The secretary's eyes opened wide, and then she smiled. The teacher smiled back and headed for class.'
Despite the early hour, none of the students seemed to be asleep. Somehow, that teacher’s story had touched them. Or maybe it wasn't the story at all. In fact, it all started with a student's observation that the teacher was so cheerful.
A wise man once said: "Who you are speaks louder to me than anything you can say". I suppose it must be so.
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