Relative Something

There is a phrase that is commonly used during emergency response, to calm a patient’s mind, that had me thinking the other day, if it applies during critical incidences, there is no less reason for it to apply other times in our lives.

Everything’s gonna be all right.

If we can tell someone who is in serious trauma, that everything is going to be all right, then how can it not apply for situations like not getting out of the house in the morning by the intended time, or when a car surges into our lane without bothering to signal, or when I discover I forgot to properly punctuate a question. How many times in a single day would it benefit us to contemplate the simple notion that everything is going to be all right?

And by now, I think we get the drill: If we say it often enough, we will tend to believe it, and if we believe it, it will come to be.

All right? All right.

When you are helping someone in crisis and they just can’t see any way out, intuition tells you that there will be a calm after their storm. Even if you can’t see any solution to their crisis, you sense that somehow, there will come a time when the crisis is over and everything is okay. They might ask how you can say such a thing, but you know that eventually everything is going to be all right. That’s just the way it is, looking in from the outside. It’s a view we deserve to take more often regarding our own daily dilemmas, both the important and the less so.