Attitude 101

We've all been dying since the day we were born, and we all let it remain to be the source of our misery.
Each day is one step closer towards our last. We don't know when it is coming, or how it will, but we all take it way too seriously. It's like the saying "Don't take life too seriously, no one gets out alive anyways." Everyone is always so pressed for time, running around like chickens with their heads cut off. I frequently find myself caught in this hustle and bustle fast laned world myself. I put on my heels, grab my purse, schedule out my itenterary for the day and go. And I don't stop going until I am done. And I hate it. At the end of it all I sit and think, "Now where did that get me that I wasn't at yesterday or the day before?" We panick and rush and stress and try to accomplish so much in the little time we have in our lives, and for the most part, it gets us no where any faster than doing it at a timely pace would. We're in a rush to make money, to start our careers, our families, our lives. We make ourselves miserable doing so. It's like were dying everyday in two senses. The sense of biology (aging and such.) And in the sense that our carefree abilities are dying. We lose our spirits with each day we age because whether or not we recognize it, we accept misery as a part of aging and the path to success. So I guess what I'm getting at in this segment of my entry is that we all just need to breathe. Yes, our time here is limited. Yes, death could make its way to us faster than a hurricane. But what good is our time here if we don't stop and appreciate it at least once a day. What good is it if we don't take time to do what we want and let things happen as fate determines them to happen? You can't rush fate, so don't rush yourself. If it's meant to happen, it will.

Something else that kind of clicked in my head recently came up during one of my classes. One of my professors said to us that Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% what your disposition is. The more that I pondered that statement, trying to argue within myself that attitude cannot have that much effect on your life, I realized that it's undoubtedly true. It goes back to my whole post about optimism. Optimism is really the key to success. If something bad happens to you, and you let it bring you down, chances are more things will go wrong. It's like the saying "when it rains it pours." Well maybe it only pours because you refuse to see the sunshine in the forcast for the day after that. If you sit and dwell on the negativity of an event in your life, chances are you won't get very far. It's like when you tell yourself, or have the attitude that you can't do something, then you can't. If you tell yourself that you CAN do something, no matter how outrageous or out of reach it may be then theres a really good chance you will accomplish it. There is always that ten percent of what happens that could limit you, but if you have that ninety percent of a positive attitude going for you, then that's alot. That's why I hate people using situations they are in as excuses. When people have odds against them I frequently see them endulging in their own misery and just accepting that the odds are working against them. If they had just picked themselves up, and fought their hardest using what little they have, and kept a solid attitude and a good heart in each hand, chances are success is on their pathway. It's like the film "The Pursuit of Happiness", had Will Smith let himself be dragged down by all the forces working against him he would have remained homeless, jobless, and eventually without child, but he had the key to overcoming his circumstances; the right attitude. So, at the risk of being blunt and obnoxious... Quit your bitching, nothing is impossible.