By being angry, we seem to let out a lot of steam. But many times, we almost always regret blowing our tops off in the first place. When what has happened cannot be undone, why make ourselves go red instead of keeping a cool head?
It was a Sunday. My family and I went out for lunch at a restaurant. Having just ordered our dishes, we tried to settle ourselves in our seats. That's when I felt something wet drip on the back of my neck.
I turned around and was greeted with the sight of a woman, half drenched in curry soup.
A waiter had accidentally spilled a bowl of spicy, soupy noodles on his customer. I think everyone in that particular area of the restaurant was anticipating an inevitable outburst from the female customer.
Except, it didn't come. She just lightly nodded her head at the waiter's apologies and graciously accepted the manager's offer of a towel and a free dish. Some of her family members helped her to wipe off the mess, the waiter continued serving plate after plate of steaming food, and life went on.
My first thought, wow. This lady can seriously keep her cool.
It got me thinking about many things in life.
That was a really unlucky thing to happen. But as the Malay proverb goes, the rice has already become porridge, so why waste our energy on doing something that is about as benificial as doing nothing?
Instead of feeling mopey about what's gone wrong, why not think about how to make it right?
All those times spent on thinking about "what if"s, we could've spent them on figuring out how to solve our problems.
And it took a spilled bowl of noodles to teach me that.
4 comments:
lots of people these days are cool and calm, happy-go-lucky
Agreed, but there are also quite a big handful out there who can't keep their cool~ Thankfully, this lady did and so did her family members.
what about you? didn't soup dripped on you?
well, yeah, but it was more of a sprinkle. So I didn't mind. If it was the whole bowl of soup... I'd try to control myself
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