Exploring Happiness #49- Calamity Poem by June Stepansky

If by some ill chance
I found myself in hell,
what would I do?
Would I join the others,
and spend my days
stoking the flames?

I think, rather,
that I would search
the vast and barren width and
breadth and depth of hell
to find a seed,
and then,
I would plant a flower.


At some time in our lives all of us will find ourselves in a sort of hell from which there seems to be no escape. In such a situation, if we try not to despair, often a small glimmer of hope and the possibility of a new direction may present itself to us and we can again start to build toward a better solution to our problems.
it is important to be aware that solutions are frequently available to us even if we are not able to recognize them immediately.
If we succeed often enough at solving problems, we can begin to look at difficulties as challenges rather than as insurmountable obstacles.

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I am neither an optimist nor a pessimist, but a possibilist
Max Lerner


Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are,
raise your sights and see possibilities—always see them, for they are always there.
Norman Vincent Peale