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My motto in life has changed
Learning how to really see the world from a better lens
The other day, my husband and I were both discussing the situation with our car. We had been struggling to sell our car for a while now. And although initially the market had seemed pretty dry, over the past weekend, we were starting to receive a few offers alhamdulillah.
As a result, we had a potential buyer look at the car a few days ago and alhamdulillah, within hours they contacted us back saying they were interested in buying the car.
We were ecstatic, finally the car was sold. We informed others calling interested that the car was off the market and we took the car down from the various sites.
But days later…the car remained parked outside our flat. The money from our buyer still outstanding.
This was the situation my husband and I were discussing. We were both worried about this sale falling through, and having to go through the whole process of trying to find buyers again. We’ve been trying to get rid of this car for quite a while now and the thought of having to go through all that hassle for second time was not fun.
As a result, the mood in the room was down.
But it was because of one randomly uttered phrase, the beautiful phrase that I mentioned at the start of the letter…