THE EPITOME OF POSITIVITY

 Okay, so earlier this day, i came across a video. In the video, that fellow gentleman asked to close eyes and name three people you love in your life the most. So as to prove his and eventually my whole point, let's close eyes for a minute and name any three people we love, like truly love. Take a minute and go on. Done. Okay, so let's say you named three people- the question here is not who you named or how difficult it was to name only three people but the question here is,did you bother to name yourself ? Because i didn't. The idea of naming myself didn't even crossed my mind until that man asked so in the latter part of the video. And it was then that i realized, that maybe for a teeny tiny bit- i don't prioritize myself that much. Maybe I don't love myself enough and seeking the "love" in others is what generally disappoints me. Not that loving someone is wrong or the three names you took would disappoint you always, but the thing is, we normally...

According to Alan Watts, a British writer and speaker,   “The desire for more positive is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience.”  This is a total mind fuck thing. So maybe, I would give you all a minute to unpretzel your brain and read that again. To summarise what I quoted above, ‘Wanting of positive experience is itself a negative experience. Instead we ought to first accept the negative experience.’ Now this is definitely something that would trigger you guys. I agree. It is just like thinking about the negative experience. But you see, there is a minute difference between accepting and thinking about it.  In order to gain the ultimate guide on ‘How to be happy’ we must first accept the reason for being sad. We must accept the fact that not everything happens the way we want it to. Life would lose its meaning if it would just resort to being a piece of cake. Because it isn’t. We mu...