Look outside. Do you see the bad weather? Or maybe you see the trees and the leaves dance?
It's all about the perspective. Some call it "glass half full" vs "glass half empty", but that provokes another question "What is in the glass?" I guess the question is just another indicator of my personality- questioning, not taking face value and sometimes being a little skeptical. I get honestly pissed off with overly jolly people- you know the kind- who go bird spotting and seem high on happiness, they are slow and unrealistic and deserve a punch in the back of the head. However, these slow hippy people have one thing I don't- a permanent smile on their face. You know you hate them, but partly the reason why is because you secretly want to be a little more like them.
Do you whine a lot? I do.
I imagine that, even if one should find themselves coming from a less privileged background, having been unfairly treated, there are always things to be thankful for that we overlook. Taking for granted benefits like potable water at home is the first such example.Yet, we curse our little priviliged heads off when there's engineering work and there's no water for 2 hours. You know me well enough by now to know I am no hippie, but the point is valid- what about people who have no potable water to begin with?
It becomes that much easier to get lost in technicalities of yelling at the bitch in front of me in the queue taking too fuckin' long to take out her purse and get the hell out, and forget all I have to be thankful for, when I haven't earned most of it and when i've always had commodities. But it's a two-step process: first, we forget to appreciate our life as well as the beauty around us, that can be found in the smallest thing, as we choose to focus of the smallest negative thing instead. It's easier to be miserable than it is to be happy. The second step is that, following such short-term memory of the good things, we then become demotivated. Motivation is the product of discrepancies. You're poor but you see that you can earn more- so you push yourself to get there. You notice you're unhealthy when climbing stairs and being out of breath- you then exercise a little more to get fitter. Examples go on and on. But when you don't realise the good things that you already have, nor the smiles around you but focus on the negativity and idiocy around, how can you expect to have a smile on your face?
I'm in that 1% in the world who have both their parents alive, who have been brought up in a loving environment, who are healthy, who can afford quality life, who look moderately attractive, who have had very good education, who know what they want and who can get it, who have friends to rely on and a partner to come home to, who have motivation to progress and driven forward. To find something to complain about demands a special kind of talent but it is also a slap in the face to those who have my life what it is at this moment.
Smile. What are you thankful for?
