Thursday, March 22, 2007

OR IS IT JUST THE NEGATIVE THOUGHT????


Thoughts are neither negative nor positive. Thoughts are just thoughts. What they turn out to be depends on the context. Given a context thoughts can be realistic or unrealistic; mean or generous; selfish or selfless. Many chronic positive thinkers insist that the glass is half full- do they still remain positive when the glass is half full of polluted water? A positive thinking fellow is like someone who decides that it is more honorable to fall from the Eiffel tower rather than from a ten storied building! It doesn’t matter where you fall from, the consequence will be disastrous. In reality no positive thought can arise without a negative thought hiding around it. They are like the two poles of the magnet. For instance if I ask you not to think of mallika sherawat for the next one minute, you will invariably think of her. Try it!
Positive thinking can turn negative very quickly. Why? Because they originate in the same source. They are interconnected like marigold and manure. It takes a blooming marigold just a few days to become manure. Similarly, manure becomes flower in the course of time...
Marigold and manure are two expressions of one shared identity. Negative thinking comes from the same shared space as positive thinking. I am not endorsing negative thinking. I am simply saying thoughts become positive or negative depending on you. It is you who sets the standards and values by which you evaluate thoughts. A lot of people talk of falling standards of everything: food, music, newspaper or whatever. Actually standards have neither fallen nor risen. Standards have just shifted;
Your value frames have changed…..

3 comments:

Unknown said...

but WHO supplies the context...????!!!!!

Pratik said...

+ve or -ve????? i'm confused after reading this article.... light please

mavie said...

wow!!
well...thoughts are just thoughts.
To me its quite sure that the one who views the glass half empty will do it for life and he will deal with it...come what may. That is how we are. Different!!!
and maybe that is the reason why we are possible.
debatable ;)