Sometime I hurt people, and I don’t even realize it. I don’t place myself enough in other people’s shoes. I live my life. Relaxed, the good life. But all actions have consequences, and you have to pay the price.
How do you repair life? Through time? Communication? Not repeating mistakes? I have trouble answering these questions sometimes. Is it better not to take decisions? Or to go through with every decision until the end? Or have an equilibrium of both? I just cut myself on one of your pages! A sign? Does a sign point to something bigger? Or is it just something that we interpret? Can the same sign be interpreted differently depending on the circumstances and the situation? I think so. Everyone lives in their mind, which is related to what goes on around them.
I know that we see what we want to see, and I have proof. I was walking in the streets of Athens when I saw a man with a short sleeved shirt, and tattoos on his arm. On his left arm, he had a sleeve of roses. On his other arm, he had a sleeve of skulls. What should I notice? Should I focus on the right arm and fear that something bad was going to happen to me? Was I going to miss my bus? Was I going to get hit by a car? Die?
Should i focus on the roses and tell myself that today was going to be a good day? Was I going to get a promotion? maybe meet the love of my life this weekend?
What if I did focus on the negative? What if I missed my bus? I would have told myself that the skulls were a bad omen. What if I focused on the roses, and still missed my bus? Would I have thought to myself that I would enjoy a nice walk back to my house?
I could take you out on one of the most magical weekends you ever had. All of your hearts desires would be shown and given to you. But with a negative mindset, you will always find something that went wrong, or something that could have been better. You will never be truly fulfilled.
With a positive mindset, the opposite is true. I could take you out on the worst weekend of your life, and you won't care at all. Every little mishap will be wonderful turn of events, that you may think and laugh at in the future.
It's all about perception. So dear reader, you see the same man, standing on the street.
What do you focus on first?
The flowers...or the skulls?
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