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Is the glass half full or half empty?
I've always been an optimist.. maybe a moaning shouting and cursing one, but an optimist none the less. Never have I felt that "shit just happens". It happens and it's how you react to it that makes the difference. The sooner I make a move, the sooner the shit either stops happening, goes away altogether (however slowly) or the process of recovering from the shit that has happened gets underway and the recovery process begins.
Last years tax bill was, well, enough to have many leaving Land of Smiles looking for well paid work in the West. With a few mental calculations, I decided to stop drinking and open the shop for breakfast, this amount would more than cover the bill I reckoned. Problem resolved and happy life resumed within the day... or two. Deciding to stop drinking also lead to improvements in quality, extended the range and brought about a chance to expand in a way I could never have done on my own, from our original premises.
It's just a chance, but that is as much as I have ever needed. Forget luck, prayers and karma, I learnt to take my chances well, as they don't come about often enough in life. This is especially true for working class, overweight pie makers.
Forget business leaders, one of Del Boys corniest catch phrases sums it up in a nut shell. He who dares, wins! Whilst obviously lifted from the SAS motto "Who Dares Wins", his cheerful optimism and ability to keep going when all seems lost, is a lesson to us all.
Here's Uncle Albert doing an impression of Del Boy's famous phrase and almost copping and unfortunate one. For my friend Linda who is studying cockney slang, Del's last sentence "about them syrups he flogged me" uses Syrup = syrup of figs = wigs. Great hearing a South African English teacher talking slang.
Further thanks to Oscar Wilde for the following. Great thanks actually as it was Giles Brandreth who I remember hear saying it on Countdown all those years ago!! Pseud or what?
Between the optimist & pessimist, the difference is drole.
The optimist sees the doughnut, the pessimist the hole
Typing this blog has raised my awareness of being static for 6 years and I am starting to feel that change could be in the air... very exciting it is as well. When that next chance comes, will I be brave enough to take it?
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