Optimism is hard to come by if you've only ever seen the world as a problem. It's hard to imagine what good can come from the bad things that happen to us. As the saying goes "as one door closes, another one opens." Keep looking out for the good that may come from the bad. That's what happens to the African King in this story of friendship and hardship. With humility, we can learn that even when things are rough, good things are yet still to come.