Attitude made all the difference

It happened two years back. Whenever I remember it, it lights up a little grin on my face and charges me up with new vigor. I started my career as a IT trainee right after finishing engineering. That time our batch attitude was some thing like “We don’t want to study any more”.

Our company brought one trainer, Kamal from Srilanka. He was introduced to all of us. He was quite simple and calm person. Seeing his cool nature, we thought he was so lenient that he would not observe our crazy acts. But we never thought this trainer was going to teach us the most valuable lesson.

We used to sleep, chat and play games during training hours. Those things neither distracted him nor made him angry. Even though we were so annoying and undisciplined, he really wanted to help us.

Gradually we started paying attention to his lessons. He had earned a lot of respect from all of us. We liked him a lot. He gave us extremely valuable suggestions related to both personal and professional life. In this industry nothing is lasting. His part of training came to ending. Time came for send-off.

On his final day he warned us "Hey guys. You better bit careful. Your next trainer is going be very tough when compared to me". Our reaction to his words was some thing like “oh god this guy knows everything”. That day he shared his personal experiences. He spoke about his career. He talked about his successes, failures, fortunes and misfortunes ardently. He showed us his family album. First his wife's photograph and then two cute and sweet baby's photos. He said that they were his twins and these photos were taken right after their delivery.

We said “wow kamal, so lucky. Two in one”.

At that moment he paused for a second to take a deep breath. After that he said that only one baby survived and second baby died after ten days. The air of our room got changed suddenly. Our expressions were showing it. We were really upset and feeling terrible. We were so sorry for our beloved trainer.

We said "we are sorry kamal" with heavy hearts.

Surprisingly he asked “why sorry” smiling radiantly. God gave me one cute and wonderful baby. Don't tell me to feel distressing about one of the beautiful moments of life. What a great attitude?

That incident stood as an example for one of the quotes I read long time back. “Happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”