"It wasn't the worst thing in the world by engaging with him," she says. "I walked away being happy with how I dealt with it rather than being annoyed or frustrated as I would have been" She adds that we're often bogged down by the fear of engaging with people who are different.
Following 9/11, Simran Jeet Singh's Sikh family in Texas was subjected to extreme racist abuse. And yet, Simran's father chose to look on the bright side and offer thanks instead for the acts of kindness friends and neighbors showed them. How was such optimism possible?
Simran - author of The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life - explains how practicing positive habits and living by our values as often as we can will really help when a crisis arises.
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