Você perdeu tudo? Have you lost everything?

Ele era um homem que vivia sempre sorrindo. Quando montou seu pequeno negócio nos fundos de casa, sorria. E mesmo quando enfrentou a primeira grande crise financeira da vida, continuava a sorrir. E prosseguiu assim quando passou pela segunda, terceira, quarta... Numa delas perdeu a mulher, que levou seu filho junto consigo. Apesar da solidão e do sofrimento, após enxugar as lágrimas, continuava sorrindo. E quando perdeu tudo o que tinha: carro, casa, empresa, dinheiro, crédito e mesmo sofrendo a zombaria daqueles que ficavam felizes com a desgraça dos outros, ainda assim continuava sorrindo. Para tudo e para todos, procurava sempre brincar, dizer coisas divertidas, manter o astral alto, evitar o pessimismo, ver o lado bom da vida nas grandes e pequenas coisas. Alguns amigos perguntavam como conseguia manter essa alegria, como conseguia sorrir depois de perder tudo? E a resposta era a mesma para todos: "Agora a minha alegria e o meu sorriso são tudo o que tenho. Se eu perder essas coisas o que irá restar?"

Lisandro.

www.lisandromusic.com

He was a man who always lived smiling. When he set up his little business on the back of his house, he smiled. And even as he faced the first major financial crisis of his life, he continued to smile. And he went on like this when he went through the second, third, fourth ... In one of them he lost his wife, who took his son with him. Despite her loneliness and suffering, after wiping away her tears, she continued to smile. And when he lost everything he had: car, house, company, money, credit, and even the mockery of those who were happy with the misfortune of others, he still smiled. For everything and everyone, I always tried to play, to say fun things, to keep the astral high, to avoid pessimism, to see the good side of life in big and small things. Some friends asked how he could keep this joy, how could he smile after losing everything? And the answer was the same for everyone: "Now my joy and my smile are all I have. If I lose those things, what will be left?"