Being and/or staying positive is a full time job. You start that job as soon as you open your eyes in the morning and you are not finished until you get to bed and fall asleep. There are breaks you take but not because you need them, more because you let them happen to you. Those breaks can, if you are not careful enough, make you quit your positivity job and start at a new position within the firm called negativity. Your work hours will be the same but your paycheck will not. Stick with your positivity instead...
There will always be ups and downs, life is like that, but what we do when those ups and downs happen is what counts. That is what defines us, our ability to choose how we act and react.
"All you can change is yourself,
but sometimes that changes everything."
Guy Finley
but sometimes that changes everything."
Ghandi said that you should be the change you want to see. There is such big wisdom in those words and they can be applied anywhere and everywhere. I am not saying that you can not try to change others, an honorable mission indeed, just like any other, but you are destined to fail miserably if you do not accept the fact that people change when they decide to. You are just a minor factor there, almost unimportant.
You can use the same actions and the same words and get different results with different people. This is because it is not, and it never was, up to you. It was always up to and about them. It will always be up to them.
Try to take some pressure and responsibility off your shoulders. Sooner or later you will get tired of trying to fix everything up. Take a break. Have a nice nap and when you wake up try approaching the situation differently.
"We cannot
cure the world of sorrows,
but we can
chose to live in joy."
Joseph Campbell
cure the world of sorrows,
but we can
chose to live in joy."
It is easy to allow our surrounding to define us. Not allow. Wrong word there. It is easy to decide to let our surroundings define us. Everything about us is our responsibility and our decision.
Nobody makes you angry, you DECIDE to use anger as a response.
People do not give you bad feelings, they do not create them and they do not hold any power over you. That is your doing. You can be a victim of your world, or you can be the creator. The choice is yours, it always has been. Sure, there are bad things around and some people are pretty stupid, but there are also amazing things and wonderful people all around. They are lacking in your attention because your focus is on those that make you mad/sad/scared etc. Wonderful and amazing people deserve your attention. Give it to them.
It is not fair to ignore the good things and good people. It is not fair that so much lovely stuff that we have in this world is being neglected because we choose to keep our attention on things that bring us down. Appreciate those lovely things. Love, smile and be happy about them.
There is nothing positive in being negative
If there ever was a perfect sentence that is obvious in its meaning and pretty much self-explanatory, then this would be it. There really isn't anything positive in negativity. Nothing good is hidden. There is no chocolate there, no wine, not even a single ice cream. Your mind, body, and spirit do not get anything constructive, meaningful or beneficial from negativity. You are wasting your time. Wasting it. Every moment of your life counts and every moment should be a happy one. Why? BECAUSE IT FEELS GOOD. As simple as that.
One of the simplest ways to be happy is to let go of things that make you sad. Nothing is worth doing if you are not happy while doing it. Let go of that anchor that is holding you down, change your thoughts and your attitude, put a big smile on your face and decide to be happy. Happiness is not a destination. It is a way of traveling, it is the path itself. Remember that life is only as good as you make it. Let's make it a good one!
It should keep you going for a while.
KEEP YOUR SMILE ON!
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- What is the difference between fault and responsibility?
- Are you carrying prejudices?
- Thank your parents, they did the best they could
- Where attention GOES, energy FLOWS
- How to decipher your DREAMS
- Panic attacks - a heart-attack monsters
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