perception

{07.08.2016}

Life is your own perception of the world around you. We live the same days and walk the same paths day after day, never pausing to realize that someone could be taking the same path, viewing it completely different than we do.

You could find every flaw in routine, and as a result, have a negative outlook on that aspect of your life. But someone else could make every effort to blur every blemish, resulting in a positive outlook around them.

In the end, the happier person is always one who has a positive view and sees a glass of water as half full, rather than half empty.

At the end of the day, you get to choose on which side of the equation you fall. Even if you fall on the opposite side, the side with a half empty glass, that doesn't mean that you can't be happy sometimes, it just means that you smile less often, pull yourself away from everyone else because you don't want to drag them down.

The reality of it is, no matter how you see it, it's all about perception. And your perception, whether it be for a single day or for the rest of your life, affects you as well as the people around you.

Have you ever known someone whose confidence, happiness, and optimism radiates from them in an entire room and puts everyone else in a better mood? They can make a single remark, smile at one person, and their positivity is just contagious? Have you ever wondered what they've been through as well, why their outlook is positive? For all you know, they could have gone through just as much or more than you have in your life. And to me, that's crazy. Imagine the strength that takes, to have seen so much wrong in the world, but still try to be fair and look for all the best.

But it's all in the perception of how you view the world around you. Your happiness can't be contagious if you don't look for happiness elsewhere in the world too.