I feel bad for people who prefer to be pessimistic in such a beautiful world full of opportunities! Why be sad and miserable doing something that you don’t like when you can find something that you can enjoy more? Better yet, why not make that thing that you don’t enjoy doing into something that you like?
“No, that’s impossible, destiny sent me here.”
That is what people who loss the battle tend to say, “Destiny sent me where I am and there is nothing I can do about it” I call that straight up BS, we make our own path and if we can dream it then it can probably can be done! (Eating soup in space does sound pretty hard to do though.)
Being optimistic about what you want to do and being kind to others doesn’t take that much work either, what takes time and dedication is your dreams to come true but that isn’t an excuse to not do it!
You have to be optimistic enough to push yourself again and again but while still having a bit of a realistic approach (I’m not going to be basketball player being 5.7 while playing little to not basketball all of my life)
That is the trick that I have found that makes a difference, push pessimism to the side and work with an optimistic and realistic approach!
When I see a pessimistic person I’m generally looking at a victim of himself, someone with some potential that went into negative thinking.
We can all have amazing ideas and do extraordinary things, we simply have to start somewhere or with something and pessimism isn’t that place.
Maybe when people talk about optimistic people as naïve they talk about those that don’t see the mistakes they are doing and keep on going without being a bit realistic on their approach.
Please, work into being more positive if you are a negative person and check if you are real with yourself.
The results of being more positive and kind may surprise you!
Remember, destiny doesn’t lead you wherever she likes, you lead her where you like!
(I sounded like a motivational coach haha! I’m definitely not one! I’m simply shining a bit of light to those who are in Victim territory.)
As always much love to all and I hope that this little article helps you be a better person!
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A version of this post was previously published on Medium and is republished here with permission from the author.
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