It always amazes me how much optimism my wife and kids have when “bad” things happen.
Like for instance, it was close to 100 degree’s today in Houston TX, and the electricity goes off. The first thing I say is “Man, were all going to die from heat exposure today.” But she says, “Yippee, lets have a barbecue and set up the tent outside.
The same thing happened when the hurricane hit us and took off part of our roof, one of the walls of the kids bedroom, and flooded the bottom floor of our house. Then, we hear the report that our water and electricity may be down for months. She and the kids were ecstatic with joy. She’s excited because she has been wanting to try out the new camping equipment we had bought and wanted the opportunity to teach the kids survival skills.
When the local airport reported they were building a new runway that would cause planes to be taking off and landing directly over our neighborhood, I whined about the noise it would cause. But she was jumping with joy and said, “Yea, now we don’t have to drive out to the airport gates to watch the planes takeoff and land. We can watch them from our back yard.”
No matter how bad things can get, she and the kids always find a ray of light out of it.
It’s good to live with angels. They always keep my spirits high and always keep me laughing.
Just Another Day in Paradise
Just the crazy life of a neurotic father and husband married to an angel from Heaven and raising two wonderful gifted children.
A more pessimistic person would flip their lid within five minutes around your wife and kids.
ReplyDeleteThey must be the most fulfilled people I've ever heard of, or so they seem.
As a cynical person at heart, their way of thinking is as alien as it gets. However it is to be apreciated that such people even exist. We could all learn a little from them.