I filled a glass half with water and placed it on the table. I asked Ravi looking at the glass, “What do you think?”
“Half Empty!!!” he exclaimed after a few minutes. He looked at me with an expression which seemed to ridicule me a thousand times for my incompetence.
“What were you thinking??” he asked me, with a dull radiance, which shone from his eyes, feeling the high of having made me realize the reality with a shove.
“Half Full” I said, looking straight into his eyes.
Thoughts breed perception. Events influence thoughts. Circumstances cause events and I can go on forever relating each part of the chain as I go downwards. That does not explain anything. The most important thing to note is, it really does not matter how fast you run or what you end with but participation is all that matters. It takes great guts, motivation and a self belief for anyone to come up and participate in a race.
Man’s quest for materialistic realization takes him through a melancholy coaster ride. All through he is battered by his own perceptions, sometimes causing him to reach heights and some bringing him down from the same height. It really does not matter how good you are when you fall but it matters how soon you can get up when you fall.
Being positive is an asset and not a boon. No homosapien is born dumb. Biologically, man has never been able to predict the intricacies of the brain. You don’t have to be born with special powers to be a positive and motivated guy. It is ignorance and only ignorance which causes a human to go dumb. The human brain is like a sponge. It absorbs what you want it to absorb. It is not a leech but a seed. If you go on teaching, it forms a pattern and then comes back with all of the patterns what you have asked it to store. If your patterns are positive thoughts and your actions are positive, if you have stood by to be motivated during failures and perceived the thought that no matter how many times you fail, you will try hard to succeed, and one day you wake up and see that you are in the midst of a hurricane, the brain will present your past experiences with a myriad of options for you to stand up against your calamity. You must excuse me, I have no references to prove the above said, but I will testify it because I have experienced it in my own life.
Pessimism on the other hand breeds jealousy, incompetence, zealous, treachery, low-confidence, stress and ultimately to failure. You could have possibly experienced that being negative is easier. That is because most of them find it easy. So as contagious it is, it gets through quicker than air. We start to look around us as falling apart in the dark, without a chance and most importantly without a hope. Eventually man then moves on to depression and then the rest is history.
Being positive only gives you hope, being negative takes that away from you. Why waste your life giving up things then owning them up? If you sit down and think about what you want to do in your life and then change your approach towards life with a very positive thought process and determination, be assured, nothing could stop you from achieving what you would want to. When you embark on this journey of being an optimist person you should be clearly aware that you will meet more pessimists then the optimists. But, if you spread your positive energy around, it will encapsulate others and one day as you move ahead you will come out smashing the cocoon of negative thoughts.
Always remember, life presents you with a choice. To be or not to be is the cause of a choice you make. It could be easier for me to sit at home and curse the people who asked me for a bribe then to stir up the nation to protest against those. You definitely have to strive through and face all of the difficult challenges but all that bitter turns sweet in the end. It matters a lot as to how you perceive the opportunity then to quickly give it up!!!
“If you would you could. If you will you can”. The choice is yours.
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