Introduction
This statement by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (popular as Mahatma Gandhi) precisely connotes the statement by William Shakespeare (in Hamlet), ‘Nothing is good or bad, our thinking makes it so’, and the proverb, ‘Man is the architect of his own fate’. If we try to discover the themes of these extracts, we find that they mean the same thing in a little roundabout way. However, these quotations stoutly encourage us to give up the blind reliance on the theologies of God and completely depend o ourselves, to be realistic and logical while confronting the barriers of life, day in and day out. The fact is that our destiny is nothing but the complete output of our thinking process and the subsequent actions based on it. Our thinking and decision together is the predominant driving force of our life, health and hygiene, career, future, well and woe, prosperity and adversity, everything of our life. We make our life heaven as well as hell based on our thinking process. Positive thinking always yields positive outlook, awakes our indomitable dormant will power, and generates iron determination to move forward with unflinching ambition to accomplish something that we long to obtain, whereas the negative thinking makes our life miserable, destroys our potential, replaces our strengths with weaknesses, gauges out the power of our self-reliance and injects blind beliefs, makes us the slave of the belief of God—the word that greatly influences the human life-process on land.
Impact of Positive and Negative Thinking ‘
Alas, I live in a hut while my neighbours are residing in a palace! I suffer in sun and shower, no food, no bare necessities, not even a bellyful meal. The mud walls break down in monsoon, then nowhere to stay. Oh, God, how can I survive!’.
This statement only focuses on the penury of the person and how he wastes his time and energy on thinking about his survival in his badly off situation. Whereas his neighbour, of the exact status, cried out in utmost satisfaction, ‘Wow, I have a hut to live now. This is more than enough to live more days with a shed over my head. But my neighbour lives in a palace—no doubt, it is the fruit of the sacrifice of his forefathers or his own. Oh God, I’m very happy with it, but from this very moment I begin discovering the genuine means to build a royal palace to the rest of my life’.
This statement certainly demonstrates the poor person’s prosperity, happiness and indomitable willpower that make him dream to live in a royal palace one day.
‘I could not pursue higher studies; I cannot even understand these work processes. I’m weak and feeble, my hard days will never end, and my life is in great danger’. This should be rather far better to state, ‘My studies are nothing but the means of gathering knowledge and building character, there are diverse walks of life, there many various careers, it does not even if I do not make out this work process, I cannot do manual labour; it does not mean that I’m not fit to do other works. Who said, I suffer from poverty. Nicholas James Vujicic, the born tetra-amelia syndrome, became a world class motivational speaker. He has no legs and hands, how can he won the world. I’ve hands and legs and even some education. I’ve great potential. I’ve to discover the wayout; I’m sure one day I will definitely find out the solution. I’ve go on trying in other fields of work’.
‘Where there is a will, there is a way’. No thinking based on any stiff situation, no exit. Our positive thinking gives us motion, grows hope and leads us according to our thinking and belief. It even gives the true taste of life. On the contrary, negative thinking makes us static, breaks the backbone of great potential and compels us live the life like a creeper till we die. Helen Adams Keller was deaf and blind, yet she mastered the skills: Reading, writing and speaking, and also reign over the world. Sudha Chandran with her artificial leg cheered the stage after stage. What was in them? They were led by their positive thinking not the God’s grace. He who waits for God’s grace dies in hunger, lives in primitive age. There are countless instances across the world, who believe and prove that ‘we’re handicapped by our negative thinking not by birth, or devoid of any limbs. These are our situation to awake our dormant mighty and magical power to fulfil our heart’s desire’.
Fruition of Our Thoughts
We, therefore, think always to discover the keys to overcome the stiff situations in our life, not wasting time suffering the worries, pains and pangs as well as the bear the stress and strain posed the prevailing miserable situation. Deep analysis of our misdeeds or misery deteriorates our health as well as the valuable time that is ready to help discover the silver lining in the prevailing cloud of hard-time. We should cheer up and resolved to compensate the loss little by little. That very resolution will awake our magnificent magical power.
So, we say ‘I can finish this project within due date, coming across any difficulty in handling this project I need my senior to guide me’, instead of saying ‘sorry, I cannot do this project’.
Two Extremes Common to All
Be sure that good and bad, strong and weak, virtue and vice, adversity and prosperity are the natural fundamental components of each and all on earth. As there are day and night, there are strengths and weaknesses in every one of us in this world. Moreover, ‘to err is human being’, ‘no man is perfect in this world’, still there is nothing that invincible to man. Man has discovered his knowledge, applied it to his best and now is the lord of this planet. There is neither magical nor God-gifted power that has helped human being from time immemorial, but positive thinking and stern and stout decision to execute the work leading towards the goal by patience and perseverance. Just simply think ‘if I don’t sow a seed, how can I reap the produce’. Again sowing is not the be-all and end-all, we have to take specific care so that the plant may grow and help it in its course by all necessary means till it bears rich fruits. Negligence of a little moment may destroy or harm, or even stunt its growth, then the fruition too will be late.
Conclusion
Come what may, what you believe will become one day. The germination of a seed tells us that the seed has life potential; had it no potential, it could not germinate. You, therefore, have certainty and potential to be so, so there rise a thought or belief or even the imagination comes in your mind. Nothing but our knowledge matters, it does not mean the bookish knowledge; rather it is the knowledge that shows you, in vision, the probable way-out from your misery or the trouble you are suffering from. The factors that help shaping us in the form or pattern we deserve are our love, discipline, punctuality, and iron determination, steady methodical and strategic course with necessary infrastructure, dedication, patience and tolerance that keep our ambition and will power fresh and up-to-date. So, think and think; hope and believe the best; and discover the shape you like to be in the next days, and at once put yourself into action, since we know well that ‘life is action, not contemplation