The car was running while I waited on the yellow dot inside the reception area. Casually taking in the colours and decorations laid out for the Easter season, another parent stood to the dot beside me—both of us waiting for the staff of the daycare centre to bring us our kids for the evening.

“How’s it going?” I ask.

Without hesitation, she responds.

“You know, I’ve never had a bad day. I’ve had many tough ones, but in the grand scheme of things, I’ve never had a bad one.”

I replied with an affirmation for her outlook on life, which is not one held by many people.

“All things are a moment in time,” she said. “There were three days a few years ago where my mother died, my daughter was in the hospital and there was a health issue with me. It’s all done now and here I am picking up my granddaughter to take her shoe shopping.”

Serendipity chose that moment for the staff to bring her granddaughter out, who immediately ran into her arms. I wished her a good evening as they left, each thrilled to see each other.

Then the door opened and my own daughter, a smile beaming across her face at seeing me, ran into my arms.

Never a bad day, I thought to myself.

I can only hope that will be true for me… and even more, true for us all.