Patric J. Dufficy: Dealers in Hope

Almost everybody’s life is a constant roller-coaster. If I illustrate the emotions in the life of an average person, it would look a lot like a heart beat line.

I read several books saying that our thinking creates our environment.
Sometime I still think exactly the other way, that my environment influences my thinking.
Bad weather makes us grouch, traffic jams makes us angry, the way society is in general makes us sad and depress, so our environment clearly creates our attitude, right?
Wrong!
WE DECIDE on our own free will to create a bad attitude because of our environment.
You most likely heard those quotes saying there is two faces on a medal, or that a glass of water can be half full or half empty. These are so true!
If there is bad weather, I’m sure we can find something positive to do other than mourning. If we’re caught in traffic every day, we certainly can find good CDs or take this time to “talk” with our passenger, my wife loves that. 🙂
Society is upsetting… Why should we be forced to surrender to the rotten mindset of a great percentage of our society?
Why can’t we DECIDE to be different from the crowd and think our own way?
Why can’t we DECIDE to close our ears from trash talks of others and medias?
Why can’t we DECIDE to live a life for excellence and not a life for existence?

We have a choice to think positively or negatively of any situation, and we must DECIDE witch one we want in our life.
Of course it’s easier to be angry and trash talk about everything bothering us and it’s really hard to push ourselves to think something positive of a bad situation, but it can be done and in the aftermath, we feel so much better.

I am writing about this today because I’m personally in a situation of perception of others reaction vs. my thinking.
In short, I had recently to rearrange my activities in a group of friends because I was choking under the work load and I had to let go some of it.
They all said that it was OK, that they will find someone else to do the job, but in my mind, I sort of let them down and I imagine several scenarios and I really feel they are colder with me.
On the other hand, it’s probably my wounded attitude making them uncomfortable. As soon as I come back with no bad thinking and a good attitude, I’m sure their attitude with me will change, or at least my perception of it will.

We can create what we want in our life.
It’s easy to do and it’s easy not to do.

Thanks for reading, Patric J. Dufficy

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