Watch this video with your children to talk about Positivity in Adversity

in #life7 years ago

As your children grow up, they live strange experiences that are neither extremely good nor extremely bad.
That is, they are facing the complexity of the World.
This may get them confused at first, and this video by Mike Bidinger & Michelle Kwon will help you to explain them how things of our life may be blurred sometimes.

The topic.

Luck and bad luck are just different ways to see the World. Even when we feel unlucky we can find luck, if we get the right point of view. 

The plot.

The video splits into two parts, two stories that starts in parallel and merge when they meet.
Here we see two opposite characters: 

  • Lucky Lou, a lucky girl, so lucky that nothing may ever go bad

Though it may appear a divine gift, soon the viewer discovers it’s a real damnation.
For example, while the girl will always have the sun, she will never be able to feel the beauty of the rain nor the how wonderful is to jump into a puddle, as suddenly a sheet falls under her feet avoiding her to touch the water and get wet.

  • Jinxy Jenkins, an unlucky boy: everything goes wrong with him.

One day they meet, and the boy, scared because of the tenderness of the girl, run away.
From that moment on luck and bad luck mix together: the girl gets hurt at a hand for the first time.

Then destiny plays its cards, and makes the two characters to meet again in fast rollercoaster situations, where luck and bad luck appear turned upside down.
A heavy traffic jam helps them to avoid accidents, a piano falls down on them, making them to jump over the sky and live new adventures, etc.

Soon the two guys discover that their luck and bad luck are complimentary each other.
Even the umbrella, that used to repair the boy from the constant rain, at last helps them to avoid from falling from the sky.

At the end of the clip the two guys realise they are made each other.

The lesson.

Luck and bad luck are not objective situations.
What may appear as luck for someone, may appear as bad luck for someone else, and vice versa.
It all depends on how you see the situation.
Moreover, every situation has some grade of luck and some grade of bad luck, and it’s up to us to find the bright side of it.

Why you should watch this video with your children.

Children are used to see the World and their life from extreme points of view.
So there is the good and the bad, the truth and the lie, and so on.
They have poor life experiences yet, so they find hard to understand the intricacies and complexity of the real World.

This is one of the reasons why they like stories with clear plots and characters are well defined since the beginning.

Consequently they are used to complain when something doesn’t go as they expected, and shift to bad mood fast.

This video helps you to explain to ​them how things are not always as they seem, and that even in the darkest situations there is some light.
Also, what may seem as bad luck is just another way to enjoy the World! 

Enjoy!

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Interesting lesson! Guess it all depends on how we see things.

As usual.
In the western Culture we are used to think in extremes and opposites, so good and evil may not be present at the same time.
Our children learn from this point of view.
It’s up to us adults to help them to transit to a more complex vision of the World.

Wonderful words of wisdom my friend! Yeah it only takes a different point of view to turn a bad experience into a positive one. A lot of times those 'bad' experiences are there to either teach us an important lesson or to make us grow into a better person. Thanks for sharing buddy! 😀

Thank you for the feedback buddy. Much appreciated!
I agree.
My Culture, the western one, had been tailored around the dichotomy of yes-no, good-evil, etc.
While this led us to important discoveries about our Universe, on the other hand it limits us in understanding Life as spiritual and meaning, where things are blurred.
An old professor at the University used to say Western Culture is founded on the “aut-aut” paradigm, while Oriental Culture is founded on the “et-et” paradigm.
In ancient Latin et = and , aut = or.
In the aut-aut paradigm things can’t overlay each other, in the et-et paradigm opposites may be present at the same time.

wow i never knew those things! thanks for sharing the knowledge bro! see you around buddy! :)

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