Making the Best of a Bad
Situation!
© By Allen Merritt (2017)
There’s an old song I remember that helps me put things into a new light.
It’s a humorous diddy which makes me smile every time I hear it because it
takes various situations and turns them into somewhat of a positive experience
despite it all. The song demonstrates how anything can be turned around from
bad to good, negative to positive, etcetera and so on. If anything, we may
learn how NOT to do something. We’re always learning. We’re always
growing. We might as well make the most of it.
By hearing others stories via news, music, literature, jokes or personal
observation, one can gain new perspective and find new ground, inspiration to
let go and move forward as necessary.
The song I am referring to is not heard very often anymore. In fact, I
always have to go search for it to hear it. It’s called Making the Best of a Bad Situation recorded by Dick Feller (1974).
(I’ve included the links below for the actual recording and lyrics).
I thought it would be fun to share this little piece
of history as an illustration of positivity in motion. The song has three
stanzas discussing things like when the milkman delivers more than milk to the husbands
wife once he goes to work and how he sees it as an opportunity to never run out
of dairy products. Or, when a man thinks nothing of the fact that an alligator
bit his ear off. And, how a lady thinks nothing of her husband behaving like a
chicken makes a statement on how much they could use the eggs.
Now, worse things are going on out there in the real
world every day then the little oddball situations discussed in this song. But
when I think about it, I realize the take home message is about turning it all
around and finding your way out or moving forward no matter how oddball and
complicated the circumstances are. That is what I call finding something
positive within the negative. It allows us to reconsider and see past the temporary.
So here are the questions to consider:
Are you making the most of every situation?
If not, step it up.
Are you making the most of every bad, challenging
and pesky situation?
If not, find a way and make it happen.
Go over, around or through it all so you can be past
it already!
Do not waste another minute of life hunched over in
worry, because it you do you will find yourself in a bit of a rut often
distracted and deflated. I realize there aren’t any magical answers, especially
with the worst of situations such as geological disasters, crime, traffic, health scares, terror related incidents and more. However, even in the worst of the worst we
can find a place to love, live, laugh and forgive and quite possibly learn and
grow. The key lies in our willingness and our ability to make the most of it
and find blessings and victories in and beyond them.
With these ideas in mind, take a listen and a peek
at every aspect of this old song and see if it will muster up something
positive for you to consider in your life. Have fun with it. It’s silly, but
the message is impactful when you reflect on all it offers.
Now go out there and have a great week living life
on a positive note.
Cheers!