Practice Thinking Positive
Every story I read I attach to a specific day of the week for my
Daily Wisdom stories. Yet when I read it again I see it can be
used for other categories.
Today’s story could be used for Adapting to Change and you’ll
see the connection.
However the reason I saw it for this category is it is solving a
problem in a positive way.
At each moment in time when a situation arises, there isn’t just
one option. There are always plenty available but for some
reason we wear blinkers. Strange but true.
We occasionally wallow in our own sadness, when another
option is available. We almost persecute ourselves as a
torture for not doing something else right. Have you ever
found yourself doing that?
Instead of taking an easy route, for some strange reason
we insist upon ourselves that we take the more difficult route
as a penalty. Why?
Why? Because we think negative
We need to practice thinking positive. As ever it is wise to
start small.
Why diet? Why not just eat healthy. You get the same result, it
is just another viewpoint. Diet implies negativity within your mind,
eating healthy suggests meaningful efforts in a positive direction.
Enjoy today’s story…
photo courtesy: destination360.com
A TRIP TO HOLLAND
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with
a disability, to try to help people who haven’t shared that unique
experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It’s like this…
When you’re going to have a baby, it’s like planning a fabulous
vacation trip to Italy. You buy a bunch of guidebooks and make
your wonderful plans - the Coliseum, the Michelangelo, gondolas.
You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It’s all very exciting.
After several months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives.
You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane
lands. The stewardess comes in and says,” Welcome to Holland.”
“Holland?” you say. “What do you mean Holland? I signed up for
Italy! I’m supposed to be in Italy.
All my life I’ve dreamed of going to Italy.” But there’s been a change
in the flight plan. They’ve landed in Holland and there you must stay.
The important thing is that they haven’t taken you to a horrible,
disgusting, filthy place full of pestilence, famine, and disease. It’s
just a different place.
So you go out and buy new guidebooks and you must learn a whole
new language and you will meet a whole new group of people you
would have never met. It’s just a different place. It’s slower-paced than
Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you’ve been there for a while
and you catch your breath, you look around. You begin to notice that
Holland has windmills, Holland has tulips, and Holland even has
Rembrandts.
But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy, and
they’re all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there.
And for the rest of your life you will say, “Yes, that’s where I was
supposed to go. That’s what I had planned.” And the pain of that
experience will never, ever, ever go away. The loss of that dream
is a very significant loss. But if you spend your life mourning the fact
that you didn’t get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very
special, the very lovely things about Holland.
(c1987 by Emily Perl Kingsley. All rights reserved)
QUOTE: “Mankind always sets itself only those problems it can solve;
since, looking at the matter more closely, one will always find that the
task itself arises only when the material conditions for its solution
already exist or are at least in the process of formation.
(Karl Marx)
Andy Bolton
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