Diego Silva

I once heard the story of a man who walked onto a bus with his three very hyper children. This was going to be an all-night ride, so passengers were hoping for peace so they could get some sleep on their journey. After 15 minutes of yelling, jumping over seats, and throwing things back and forth, passengers began looking at each other, wondering who would be the first to demand that the dad tame his unruly children. To make matters worse, he seemed totally oblivious to his children's misbehavior

Richard Byrd was a polar explorer who spent five months alone in a shack in the Antarctic in 1934. During a brutal storm where temperatures hit -80°F , Byrd was nearly killed by carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty stove. He was weak, freezing, and completely cut off from the world. He spent days obsessing over the weather, the equipment, and his chances of survival. He realized that his frantic worry was actually draining the physical energy he needed to survive. He wrote in his journal:...

I have a friend from college who endured a nightmare scenario. She and her husband were raising a healthy, vibrant two-year-old son who was the light of their lives. Then, in a single heartbreaking instant, everything changed. The husband was backing out of the driveway, unaware that his little boy had wandered into the front yard. In a tragic accident, he struck the child, ending a life that had only just begun. That split-second accident cost the boy his life and plunged the couple into...