Have you tried turning a negative situation into a positive situation?

I'm pretty much the ultimate optimist. When I was dealt cancer, not once, not twice, but three times I decided that it was not a curse but a gift from God to make me realize how lucky I am to have what I have and want to enjoy my life and view it as the gift it is. Losing my house and most all of my material things in a divorce, in order to keep my kids without any hassles, was a blessing. It gave me a new beginning, the ability to start a new life with the people I love most (my kids), with a whole new house and building a whole new lifestyle around us. We now appreciate all we've struggled to obtain this way. So I can answer yes, I pretty much see the silver lining in most clouds.

When I have a bad or negative situation, I think about others that have a lot worse than I do. I thank God for my blessings, and even the trial of negativeness I will be going though. Then all is fine, and I can appreciate each day I am blessed with to the fullest.

I'm often trying to turn things around in my own mind and figure out what good I can learn out of what seems like a hard lesson. Like recently when I made a few stupid mistakes when talking to people that I felt pretty shy of talking to in the first place, I said some things that turned out to be wrong, like confusing that someone's play was happening this year when it was last year, etc. Talk about embarassing, considering that I'm really sensitive and shy and I don't like being wrong and being embarrassed - but I've been trying to push past my shyness, and I figured (upon thikning about it) that I _need_ to learn to be able to say something wrong and live with it without dying of embarrassment, especially online, so that I'll be used to it by the time I'm able to talk to people in person more, so that I won't die of embarrassment when I say something silly like that, lol. I do fully believe that everything in life is a life lesson that we're meant to learn, so I always want to see the positive side in anything that I can! ^_^

I am known in my family as the peacemaker. I am the optamestic one. I can always turn something bad into something good and can always calm a disagreement. I tend to look past the mistakes people make and concentrate on the talents that they have. Thus uplifing others to a level that they deserve. I never run someone down.

I lost my wallet with a few thousand bahts and later my cellphone was picked in my pocket. I wanted to cry in frustration but after the mourning for my loss I realized that I was lucky to have lost the money and the cellphone and not any part of my body. Money and celphone can be replaced but if my finger is lost I can't buy a replacement.

I have . Recently I lost one of the two jobs I was working.I was devastated but It gave me a chance to get a lot of things done i haven't been able to do plus I have been able to spend more time with my dad is very ill