How SILVER LINING Works!

 

YES YES yowww, even if Mr Weatherman will give you a forecast of overcast and gloomy skies, never give up as to HOW SILVER LINING WORKS!  Much as I am a firm believer in miracles, I am a hundred times more deeply into the belief that even in the worst scenarios ever, there will always be a glimmer of hope as to HOW SILVER LINING WORKS!  We've heard, read and witnessed stories that were resurrections coming 'straight from the grave', situations that everyone have just given up, competitive games WHERE the heavy favorite was a 'runaway' in all the scoreboards only to lose in the face of that buzzer-beating 'Hail Mary' shot from the underdogs.  YES dude, you DON'T need to recite the 'Hail Mary'!!!

Admittedly, I did go through a fair share of 'losses' in life, WHICH can be translated as failures and frustrations all rolled into one and frankly, those were real awakening times for me to look and search for those SILVER LININGS.  And I'll admit that I've done it so often in life such that it has become my habit.  And I'll admit that in most circumstances, I can usually find one, sometimes more in fact.  I now remember from my High School Literature subject the well known poet John Milton💥💥💥

Apparently, it was John Milton who started that concept of 'EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING'.  However, it did NOT come into a more common usage as an encouragement to people suffering from a loss until like the mid nineteenth century.  Fast forward in the 1990s, I started to hear OR read about these SILVER LININGs more often, starting when we witnessed the Asian Financial Crisis in the 1990s❌❌❌

NOT to dampen our hopes BUT I did experience outliers, enough for me to realize that sometimes THE CLOUDS CAN BE VERY DARK.  Like sometimes we can only come to acceptance by going through that grieving process.  WHEN the Americas got hit with those 911 attacks, I am cocksure I never saw SILVER LININGS nor even in the aftermath after thousands of victims got hit by those turbulent hurricanes.  Fast-word to 2020, I'll admit that I thought I saw the SILVER LININGs even WHEN we all got hit by that Covid-19 Pandemic because it did enlighten and embolden people to carry on💚💛💜

Our takeaway:  Question is, HOW, if at all, can we find those SILVER LININGS?  No formula here dude BUT I suggest that WHEN we hit an obstacle, first things first, let's look for that realistic opportunity you can grab ASAP, even if it looks like you're clutching on straws [WHICH you likely are].  To quote American author Helen Keller, 'WHEN ONE DOOR OF HAPPINESS CLOSES, ANOTHER OPENS.  Problem is, often, we spend so much time looking at that CLOSED DOOR that we DON'T see the one WHICH may have opened for us.  And voila, that's the SILVER LINING dude😃😃😃