Mindset story: The king’s lesson how even a bad situation can have a positive side

There was once a king who ruled a kingdom on the edge of the then-known world. The king used to spend a lot of his time with his best friend growing up often listening to his advice. His friend had a habit of looking at every situation that ever occurred in his life, be it positive or negative with optimism. To every situation that happened, he usually responded, “This is good, this happened for a reason!” The king even after all these years was still surprised by his friend’s perspective about the positive side of every situation that happened in life, even though everyone else believed they were not good at all.

One day the king and his friend were out on a hunting expedition. They went into a dense forest just outside the borders of their kingdom, to the uncharted land. While hunting, the friend would load and prepare the guns for the king. When the king saw the animal that he wanted to shoot he took a gun from his friend and aimed at the target. When the king felt that his aim was just right he fired the gun. And at that instance, the gun misfired and blew off the thumb of the king. His friend had apparently done something wrong while loading and preparing the gun or at least that was the first thing that came to the king’s mind. Both of them were shocked by what just happened, and the king’s friend…