I choose to be an optimist, to believe the best in people and to believe in honesty and accidents. I choose to see beauty around me.
Since 14 February I have been thinking about how everybody has react to the whole Oscar / Reeva shooting and how I feel about it. I am not saying I don’t believe he is guilty – he shot somebody, whether he intended it to be Reeva he shot that is a different story.
But, this post however is not about him. It is about me! It is about what I choose and how I choose to feel in situations like this. I don’t want to go around thinking the worst in everybody. I don’t want to see the doom and gloom in the world. I don’t want to think that there is only bad out there.
I want to see the beauty in a sunset or sun rise, I want to believe that people are inherently good. I want to enjoy my life and to enjoy the abundant kindness that surrounds me. I want to believe in luck and that hard work does pays off. I want to enjoy footprints in the sand, walks along the beach and kisses from family. Yes, I will be disappointed along the way, let down and called naïve. I don’t care. What other options are there, to live in a hole seeing only darkness, to be pessimistic and think that only bad is going to happen? Yes, I know bad does happen, and often, but so does good. I choose to see and focus on that even if at times it is very hard.
How do you choose to live your life?
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So very true.
I also choose the happy, sometimes though i forget and get bogged down by the negative.
But choose the positive and I feel the negative automatically goes away. Declare that you are happy/in love/ fit whatever and you will believe it. Believe you are miz, and well, you’ll be miz!
so very true! I especially realised this when I did the 30 days of Gratitude. The more I thought about what I had to be grateful for the more grateful I was and the more I saw.
I think it’s a great way you choose to live your life. I wish more will do so.
I am also very much a full glass type of girl.
I’m the same. I explained all this just last night to someone actually about how, yes, there is a lot of crime all around but I can’t focus on that. There’s also TONS of beauty and good things around too
Yip, I definitely do the focus on the good thing. As Shayne said, believe you are miz and you will be. Though saying that, I do sometimes have down days for no real reason.
I think we all do! Sometimes there just seems like so much bad it is really difficult to focus on the good. I have found that it does take effort – but is worth it.
I agree, I focus on the beautiful and the positive…I just can’t see any other alternative.
Nope, I can’t either
I ALWAYS see the best in people, much to my detriment sometimes. I always give people the benefit of the doubt. So yes, I focus on the good thing even though it is hard sometimes.
I would still rather see the good and be dissapointed than just see bad.