Being 'Positive' Doesn't Take Much Actually!

I Tried to Paint the Sky...& colored myself!

At some point in life, you must have heard someone saying, “The more you run away from something, the more it follows you back”. Though the quote never held a grain of truth in my life, I have lived with this thought for time immemorial. I ran away from truth, but no honesty came back to me. I ran away from mosquitoes, dengue never came to me. I even ran away from my books for entire school life, but no learning ever took a step towards me. However, I was astonished with the fact that whenever I used to run away from dogs, they ran back at me (one little grain could be applauded for this situation). No matter what life served me with, running away had no signs of solution or an escape or an explanation to any reason of probabilities behind the happenings.

That day, I encountered the ‘Secret’ at a small market owned by a child vendor exactly opposite to Café Coffee Day at Moolchand Metro Station. His mom was selling artificial jewelry right next to his shop; a shop with no shed or light or fan, but just the Café Coffee day on one and Metro Parking on the other side. I wondered, what was this family running away from that made this small self-owned, self-opened market follow them? The poor kid must be running away from school and books came to him. The helpless mother must be running away from jewelry to satisfy her family needs, and it all came back to her (who might also be envying or longing everyday for what she sold).

Well, as I encountered ‘Secret’ by Rhonda Byrne, I decided to buy its sequel which I encountered at my second glance; ‘Secret, the Power’. I started with first page the same day, inside the loud metro announcements (which also included any private announcement made by public in secret communications inside the Violet Line Metro). Initially, I thought that the concept of this book is wrong and confusing. The author tells you to have an amazing life and to wake up each day with excitement. She advises to only have positive feelings and ignore the negative ones around. She continuously speaks about ‘Love’ and its powers. My eyebrows raised a lot of questions during the introductory pages of the book. Why shouldn’t it be okay to only love what you like and actually hate what disinterests you? Why should there be a problem if you accept the negative feelings around and live with them positively? What would make a difference if you think about hatred and not only love, so that it helps you distinguish between the two feelings? Won’t being positive always leave you circumspect? How will you build opinions if you stick to just one feeling?

Indeed, for no reason in the 21^st century, when one gets anguished with late replies, people can always be positive, irrespective of what their blood group is. However, as I went through the book more and more, I realized that the ‘secrets’ behind Byrne’s concepts held truth. In one of her contents touching upon feeling the secret, the author wrote a Neville Goddard’s quote which said, “Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor”. And this was quite provoking if I thought about my desires which I couldn’t live due to some reason or the other. May be because it’s more about rejoicing what you are being and have been blessed with. It’s really about feeling what you have and being contented. At the same time when ‘following your dreams’ provide inner peace, ‘living and loving the present’ brings along glee, which is the key to survival without complaints.

Coming back to ‘the more you run away from something, the more it follows you back’ thought, I believe the very fact of life is that you never achieve your dreams if you run away from them. Rather, when you feel that the dream you chase is all yours in reality, it comes to you in not much time. It might bring to you indications about soon becoming true when it takes too long to be lived and not just felt. But, the starting point of achieving a dream is feeling it and feeling that you are living it. By any chance, if your wish is not coming true, it’s for sure that life has stored in something much better. All you need is, just feel that situations you are getting exposure of are only for good, better and best!

The author also talks about giving others what you wish to have. Sharing one of her experiences, Byrne says that once she was running short of money. She was making a film based upon her book. She wanted money to complete the movie. Though, she was all in debt, she walked to an ATM and drew out several hundred dollars from her credit account. She went on to give the amount she had to certain people. Afterwards, what happened astounded her. Her bank account received 25,000 US dollars for some shares she had bought in a friend’s company years earlier. The incident suggests that putting love into giving brings what you share back to you.

In a nutshell, try to spread colors around you so as to bring the colors back to you. Be good and goodness will come back to you. No matter how the sky is - clouded or black - just paint it. No matter how people are, just love them. To absorb your own philosophies for your life, teach them to others. You teach people about love and you will be lovable. You teach them about happiness and you will be jovial. Teach what you know for you always get a response. You never know, while talking to others, you get a much-sought answer for yourself. Remember, even a plant that’s living yet passive is beneficial.

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