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I met a guy whose life hasn’t always been an easy one, no one could possible say they knew him, but I think I understand him.  He’s an expert at hiding the things he doesn’t want anyone to know about his life. I told him to one day write a memoir, but doubt he’ll want to, it’s mostly a sad story he says, but maybe that’s the problem with most people…..

For too long they chose to see the cup half empty instead of half full. There’s always time to fill it regardless of what ever happened.  Genuine dedication, belief, faith and the power to control your mind can elevate you to levels you may have never thought you can reach the tyranny of impoverished thinking if I could call it that. I used to have the same thoughts at times, most of the filled with spite and negative, I fell into bad mental habits. Rather than focusing on all the good in their lives, as little as they think they have, and thinking of ways to make things better, they remain captives of the past, bitter about what others have and they don’t, how others have it easy and they’ve only really known one way of living, struggle. It’s no secret that the way we think stems purely from habit, but people never realize the power of their minds, which is equivalent to the power of choice. You let the happenings around you dictate your mood and how your life is going to be. So what if you can’t go to parties from Thursday to Sunday like the spoiled kids? Or go for road trips, travel abroad, drive a car? Weighing yourself down on such levels makes it even harder for you to fit in.

Sheer optimism can get you through a lot, the power of vision across adversity. Instead of trying to be like someone, or wanting what someone has, focus on how to improve your current situation, cultivating envious thoughts in your mind is just filling your head with negative ideas instead of freeing that space to think of more positive ideas to elevate yourself. It could be a job that pays you something you consider small, but that’s a stepping stone for greater things to come in your life as long as you keep pushing on, being buoyant that the best is yet to come. Sometimes your ‘I can’ is way better than your IQ.

So no matter what happens to you, no matter the past experiences, only you have the capacity to choose your response to it. One of mentors always tells me that regardless of what happened in the past, we are not captives of the past, but we are the captains of our DESTINY.