"With A Smile"

We often prepare ourselves, make plans, do all that needs to be done in order to achieve a certain result. But then something - totally unforeseen - happens and things take a different course. How to deal with the disappointment? Probably "with a smile". There is very little we can do in front of situations that are beyond our control. Accepting willingly what we cannot avoid makes life easier (if not happier). Amen.

P.S. This was the advice that Socrates' jailer gave the Greek philosopher while handing him the poison he had been condemned to drink. Difficult to accept it "with a smile"? It seems that Socrates did. After all... wasn't he one of the wisest men who ever lived?