| Choosing
Your Attitude
Most of us do
not really want to be bitter, feel bad chronically, and be problems
to ourselves or others. We do it anyway though, mostly because we
do not know what else to do. It is true that some people actually
relish and even wallow in bad feelings. They seem to do their best
to take others down with them.
It is not only possible to get better, the
process can be downright fun!
Still, it seems impossible to avoid bitterness
altogether. For most of us mere mortals, “stuff happens”
prompting us to think and feel a certain way; i.e., bitter. However,
it is also true that “shift” happens! We can learn ways
to shift our feelings. (By the way, feelings are neither good nor
bad, they just are.) Feelings do tend to be driving forces in our
lives however. The more we can learn to use them constructively
the better off we are.
Most of us were taught overtly and subtly
every day of our lives that attitude is a chance happening, at best.
In essence, some people have a good attitude and some people do
not. In my early life I believed that I was destined to have a negative
attitude, on top of all of my other difficulties. I know differently
now. The “world” will still have us to believe that
attitude is happenstance. I believed it for 10 years. Don’t
you believe it for one minute! With many variations, we all have
two basic choices: Life can be bitter or better! Put another way,
in life we have a choice to either go fishing or eat lemons. The
variation of that choice for me is to put lemons on my fish! In
other words, being bitter or better is up to you!
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