Over the past few months, the author used to frequent an Asian diner, by the name, Pei-Wei, with one of his Taiwanese friends. The highlight of the luncheon would be the fortune cookie, something that the author used to look forward to, every time. Whoever, came up with the concept, must have been very spiritually strong.
Similar to Jeeves' buck-me-up potions, these fortune cookies, have the sheer capacity to bring in positive energy and high spirits, over just a piece of paper. Only good things are written out there. Thankfully, the fortune cookie doesn't discriminate too. So, everyone, is positively affected by the same mysterious, wonderful, oracular, prophecising cookie.
This only goes to show, as to how wonderful a strategy it is to, focus and harness on the positive, beautiful aspects of life. If one were to go by the law of averages, the meandering journey of life, would takes us through both the best and worst times of life. It just so happens, that, thinking beautiful, no matter what, helps us face those undeniable moments better.
Further, the concept of focussing on the beautiful, helps one to understand the psychological significance of the age-old custom of seeking blessings from the Divine and the elders. What could be purer than the fact, that, someone thinks highly positive for you, and goes one step ahead, in blessing you. Just to have a dear elder bless, "I am sure you can/ will do it", makes one do things that astound the doer itself.
Think beautiful. Thankfully, there are so many beautiful things in the world. Like someone had said, "Both an optimist and a pessimist have equal chances of winning. It is just that the optimist leads a more exciting life."
4 comments:
though optimism is not my cup of tea,i admire those who glimpse mischievously from behind that curtain and scamper around cheerfully.trust me,i know that's not easy.
and even though i admire them,i feel one is better off being a pessimist.i mean,it's infinitely safer.you expect the worst.if it turns out any good,well,it's an added bonus.
deep down, one is an eternal optimist. see, even out here, you are talking of any good happening after expecting the worst. where there is hope, there is optimism. even when one finds the good things out of the worst times, one is an optimist.
it is just that an optimist leads a more exciting life. its not the end of the world if things don't happen we envision them to happen, but then, the lessons learnt, are yours for keeps. the journey is more important than the destination.
in a way, when you talk of safer approaches, it is more to do with the destination in mind.
read this poem out here. http://rangasphotons.blogspot.com/2007/03/road-to-ithaca.html
hope,inevitably,leads to disappointment in some form.yes,it is probably not very edge-of-the-seat but a detached attachment to the future could augur well for high strung souls.neutral.always.
loved the poem.
detached attachment. well, said!
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