Yes Man

I had the pleasure recently of reading something that literally made me put the book down and just laugh out loud. A gem of a book entitled Yes Man by Danny Wallace. Its about the author who was so down and out, plus he just got out of a relationship. He's been staying home a lot saying no and making up excuses from hanging out with frens, watch a movie or whatever. One day coming back from work the tube wasnt working so everybody had to catch a bus. So our poor author struck a conversation with an old guy sitting next to him telling his tales of woe and the old guy just said 3 simple word :Say Yes More.

And that was it. He had an epiphany of sorts. Those 3 simple words struck a chord and he took the old man's advice a bit to the extreme. He started saying yes to EVERYTHING and i mean everything. He adopted 3 grannys, sign up for a few credit cards, bought a penis enlargement patch from his email, won 25,000 pound and lost it, adopted a kid in africa for his ex, join a peace rally, went to stone henge, being the 3rd wheel on his ex-gf 1st date (how awkward is that!), went to singapore from reading an advert.

Basically all the things that he or anybody for that matter wud normally say no to, he had to say YES. At the begining it was liberating for him letting go, losing control like that not able to say no. But as things went on he find it tiring and emotionally draining not having a choice. Also later he encountered his arch nemesis, if Superman had Lex Luthor then the Yes Man had the No Man. Trying everything to make him say No. No man posed all sorts of challenges to break the author's resolve.

One of the challenges for example was the Yes Man had to say No for a day which off course he had to say yes to that challenge. And during the course of the day when he had the power to say No, he felt like he was falling to dark side. And said it with much enthusiasm thruout the whole day. I laughed when he said no to the 1st person, not becos what he said but how he said it. Can imagine how he'd say it. But from all the yeses he went from being a part time radio producer to being involved in television with BBC and getting a 5 minute show on TV called "Danny's Path of Enlightenment". It brought him some interesting adventures.

The moral that i got from the book is that to approach life in a positive way. You dont have to go out there and say yes to every single thing, but to turn a negative into a postive. There's always another way to look at things. My fren told me this and i remembered it till this day.

When you feel so down and out that u think u cant go down anymore, SMILE cos there's no where else to go next but up.

P/S: someone dear to me said that there's another lesson to be learned as well, the freedom of choice. Some may take for granted the ability to choose, to have an option, saying yes or no. Some doesnt have that luxury to say yes or no to certain things. Others take it lightly saying yes/no to things without a second thought. Choose wisely and u dont know what the future may bring. If it turns out alright good on u, but if it took a turn for the worse, than one just have to roll with the punches and move on.