Optimism 101

I have the best friends. It's a good thing they are such good examples and keep me on the right path. So I have this one friend, and he's an amazing guitarist and singer and overall cool person. Well he texted me this morning and told me that he broke his collarbone mountain biking on Tuesday. My first reaction was shock and then sympathy because that just sounds awful. You know what he said to me? "Well, It sure could have been worse! I still have my arm! :)" So I'm already way impressed by this optimism, but we keep talking and he mentions that he can't play guitar for a few weeks.. But he says "It's pretty lame, but I still have my arm! And it's only a few weeks, right?" Let me remind you, this kid LOVES the guitar. Basically every time I talk to him he mentions playing guitar, or is playing guitar, or just finished playing guitar. I was already a huge admirer of him, but my admiration just shot even farther up the scale. I have to admit, if I broke my collarbone... Or actually probably even my finger bone, I would be moping and bored and overall unpleasant to be around. 

I definitely learned a lesson about optimism today. The best way I can think of to sum up this lesson also comes from this same conversation with my friend: "Well if you look at the lame things, it's... well, lame, right? :)"