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Why I cry every time about Sheryl Sandberg

we think that the situation as it is now will last forever. It is not. Strength, I have gained a lot from her wise words at times when life is not so sunny. To quote my work friend Claudia: every cloud has a silver lining. And so it is.

Give me a random vacation evening when we decided to stay home, my girls watching a movie, my beloved reading the newspapers digitally, and I have time to TED Talk and YouTube: certainly knowing that at some point I type Sheryl Sandberg and ‘commemoration speech’. And the fact that I cry is also a certainty.

The commemoration speech is an American phenomenon where a famous person who studied at a certain university encourages the fresh graduates. Sheryl Sandberg did that a few years ago for Berkeley. It was the first time that she spoke publicly.

after her husband Dave Goldberg suddenly passed away.

Sandberg wanted to share what she learned from death. Because it was a lot. She wrote a book about it: ‘Option B’, a title that comes from one of the many anecdotes that made me cry.‘

Sheryl spoke with a friend about a school event where the children would do something with their fathers. That didn't happen in her case, so they discussed the options. 'I just want Dave to do this with them,' she cried, to which the friend replied: 'Option A is not available, so let’s kick the shit out of option B.'.

  • Anyway, leave it to Sheryl Sandberg to counter setbacks and, when they do happen, to also find something good in it. Hence the book from which I want to share a few quotes with you, in case you need them when it rains in your life.
  • Live is never perfect. We all live some form of Option B.
  • Let me fall if I have to fall. The one I become will catch me. Slowly.
  • I am more vulnerable than I thought, but much stronger than I ever imagined.
  • She quoted this from Kierkegaard: Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
  • Avoiding feelings is the same as protecting feelings.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens. But we often look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Shall we continue with a truly wise lesson? That is our biggest pitfall in great sorrow that Sheryl captures in the three P's.Personalisation.

: we think it is our fault. Don't do that. Pervasiveness:.

we think that what has happened will negatively affect all aspects of our lives. That is not true. Permanence:.