It’s amazing how being positive and hopeful can make a difference in one’s disposition and actual reality.

I remember just a week ago when I was wallowing in self-pity, how all the “hassles” I’ve been experiencing suddenly added up and seemed so insurmountable. Now that I’ve gone back to my “usual” disposition,¹ I couldn’t believe that not only has a huge weight been lifted from me, but also that my actual problems suddenly sorted themselves out!

One example is my concern that I may have kidney stones – just got the results and I’m clean! Still hasn’t explained the high Erythrocyte count on my urine, but again, I’m happy to know that my worries there have been blown out of proportion.

All in all, relatively speaking; from 80% “issues” – I suddenly have like 10% left since I banished the fatalistic attitude that was consuming me. If there’s a “psychosomatic” equivalent of life perspectives in general – this has got to be one of the best examples of it.

Negativity in any form is just bad, period… no exceptions. Wether it be fear, doubt, anger, sadness, worry, resentment, etc. – all of which are forms of seeing life as half-empty. Dwelling on the bad stuff doesn’t improve one’s situation. Instead, it acts as a poison – which slowly eats away at our ability to see the actual beauty which is already in front of us – and the good that may still come.

It’s so tragic when we let ourselves be consumed by such negativity, since we all live in this world to ultimately achieve one goal: to be happy. If I truly want to be happy, exactly how does thinking negatively help me achieve that goal? It makes no sense; it seems so brain-dead obvious right?

But alas, just like anyone else, I myself succumb to the “half-empty” void from time to time. Which is why I have posts like this to serve as reminders. In this case, it’s to remind myself that in life, fortune and misfortune will always come hand-in hand; we will never get things exactly the way we want them. But focusing on misfortune (or what’s missing) doesn’t get anyone anywhere. It’s being grateful for what is already there (no matter how little it is), and being hopeful for what might be in store – that makes us more receptive and appreciative to the other “good” things life has to offer.