You get to choose how you see life. You get to choose how you feel inside by the thoughts you keep. Throw away the thoughts that don't serve you. Better yet, don't even allow them into your awareness. As you get a whiff of a thought that isn't how you want to see the world - drop it and fast! I don't mean to put your head in the sand either. Definitely not.
If you have really learned how to think - how to use your own mind rather than have your mind use you - then you know that you have options.
David Foster Wallace who delivered a speech "This is Water" (now in book form) said, that is, if you've learned how to think, "It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell-type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that lit the stars - compassion, love, the subsurface unity of all things."
You get to decide how you are going to see things. Wallace says that this is what education is about......"you get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.......
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