Bright Sider

Dr. Nina Englander's notes from Englander Chiropractic Center

Last year, one of my neighbors was interviewing for a big job promotion; CEO of a large organization. It was an inside move and everyone thought he was perfect for the job. In fact, he had been acting CEO of the organization for the prior 4 months while they did an outside CEO search.

After the interview, I saw him at the bus-stop and asked how it went. He replied, “Well, the interview went great and I didn’t get the job.” I was surprised and disappointed for him. My first question was, “Is there a bright side?”

He looked at me sideways. Then he replied, “There actually is a huge bright side. I know now that I can be the CEO of a large organization and succeed. Now I am hugely marketable AND I have a lot of confidence in myself!” When the bus pulled away, he added, “That’s really cool that the first question you asked me was about the bright side. You’re a ‘bright sider’, huh?”

I walked home thinking about the bright side. I believe that things happen for a reason. I try to find either a bright side or a lesson learned, and many times I find both.

In 2007, my husband and I put our house on the market. It took about nine months to sell our house. It was pretty hard to see the bright side of selling a house in a tanking real estate market. But I have to say, it was a lesson learned in many things; perseverance, letting go, and looking at money differently. We ended up selling to a lovely family, a bright side indeed, especially for our former neighbors. (And we ended up just fine, another lesson learned after all of our stressing!)

This winter, I had a patient come in with neck pain. She was sledding with her children and crashed into a tree. She could hardly move her neck. She had been a patient in my office in the past, but she had not been in for an adjustment in quite some time. She lay in pain on my table and told me that she had been trying to get back in for regular adjustments, but hadn’t been able to find the time. The injury got her back into the office!

I believe that sometimes the bright side of an injury is that it gets you back to chiropractic care. We sometimes have trouble getting motivated (or finding the time) to do good things for ourselves. We know we want to get our weekly or bi-weekly adjustments, our chiropractic tune-ups, but haven’t found the time. That injury can be just the ticket for us to not only get out of pain, but also get more serious about our health and do something about it. There’s the bright side!

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