Some say it is a matter of luck: to some people everything simply always goes well but others, on the contrary, seem destined to go through thick and thin. Certainly, there are circumstances that help in living a more tranquil and serene life and others that complicate it. Not all are in our hands. What is within our power is the way we face up to them, and mainly on this depends the way we feel about the results. Tibetan monks say that there is no life without suffering. That suffering is part of life, but if one understands it as such, one does not suffer. Suffering is born when we expect things to be different from what they are and what we want. If we do not expect anything, if we understand that by giving the best of us without expecting anything in return we are planting our own well being, then we will be “lucky” people, we will be happy.

Although we do not live in Tibet, we live in a country with many advantages and virtues that many seem not to see nor understand. In other parts one does not live like here. In other countries violence, hunger, cold, viruses are part of one’s everyday life in alarming proportions. However, even there one can find people that face up to life and fight to get ahead with the best of dispositions. Everything is a matter of attitude. Everything. For this reason we want to invite you to promote “the smile in what we do.” To offer good service, to be gentle, courteous, to strive to do our best at work, to think that if all of us can manage to put a little grain of goodwill every day in all we do, we will turn around, a turn for the good of all and the country. Other countries like Ireland have achieved it.

Why not us?