I have been reading stories on Holocaust survivors lately and was reminded of a story I read years ago…

A true story I read once had a big impact about how I deal with day to day problems. I haven’t been able to find because it was years ago. A reader’s digest story about two men that worked at a factory. The storyteller was a worker who had issues with the frugal German owner of the company he worked for. The writer hated his job and listed all the issues he had with management. There was another worker who seemed quiet and who also did his work. One day the writer unloaded his grievances on the worker. The worker told the writer that he needed to see the difference between crisis and inconvenience. He was a Holocaust survivor and had watched his entire family die in prison camps. The grievances the writer had were normal inconveniences everyone has to deal with in life. You deal with them, make choices and enjoy the results. No one is being put to death. There is no starvation or family being shipped off in trains. Being healthy, alive and having the freedom to move as we see fit is something to celebrate. Everything else is an inconvenience….