However, today I saw a little post that
caught my attention and made me pause for contemplation. Although there was no author credit given,
I’d like to share the information with you anyway. I think it contains a point that we might
want to give serious consideration to.
It went like this:
“There is a story they tell of two
dogs. Both at separate times walk into
the same room. One comes out wagging his
tail while the other comes out growling.
A woman watching this goes into the room to see what could possibly make
one dog so happy and the other so mad.
To her surprise she finds a room filled with mirrors. The happy dog found a thousand happy dogs
looking back at him while the angry dog saw only angry dogs growling back at
him. What you see in the world around
you is a reflection of who you are.”
Now the story may seem very simplistic,
however the message it conveys is thought to ponder. If we look at the world around us. And this doesn’t have to strictly apply to
the global scene. It could be our own
little circle of the cosmos that circulates around our daily lives. And when we inspect this arena with a
negative or sarcastic eye, what do we see?
Isn’t it normally an appearance of exactly what we picture it be in our
minds? Perhaps, in reality, we are only
seeing a reflection of ourselves and our own attitude!
Perhaps we are spending too much time
looking at and trying to fixate on the “thorn” and are paying no attention to
the “rose.” Now we should not be
delusional and think that if we only concentrated on the “rose” that the
“thorn” would not exist! No, we have to
look at the world around us with a clear, accurate eye and be realistic.
Bad things happen in the world! That is a statement of fact. But we can have the optimistic view or we can
be the pessimistic. Which would get more
beneficial things accomplished? Interestingly
enough, a poll conducted on behalf of Borden Dairy made this observation: “The new survey found that ‘glass half-full’
thinkers, while being more optimistic, also tended to be more patient, more
creative, more competitive, more adaptable and more playful than ‘glass
half-empty’ thinkers. On the other hand,
glass ‘half-empty’ thinkers tended to be more laid-back, more introverted, more
serious and prouder than their ‘half-full’ counterparts.” (https://swns-research.medium.com/the-personality-differences-between-glass-half-full-and-glass-half-empty-people-2cfc05ad3706 )
Does this mean that one view is more
desirable than the other? Not
necessarily. But I think we can all
appreciate that having a more positive perspective to situations around us will
help us better deal with whatever those circumstances might be.
You may have heard the expression: “Every
cloud has a silver lining.” Therefore
meaning that there’s hope or something good to be found in every bad situation. In real life, when a cloud looks like its
edges are shining and silvery, it’s because the sun is behind it. That’s the metaphor: things are cloudy (bad),
but they will get sunny (positive) again – or you can least enjoy the one shiny
(positive) part in all the gloominess.
Quite often the problem lies in the fact
that we have resolved our entire life to being dark and gloomy. We fill our minds and our hearts with
negative thoughts and simply refuse to belief that ANYTHING good could happen
within our lives. This is the sadness we
often deal with on a daily basis. A
major contributing factor is that we’re only human!
QUOTE TO CONSIDER
"Do not be deceived by what
you think you see."
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