Elevance

I have weird obsessions; from time to time I immerse myself in particular things, which gives me some insights about life. Like for 3 months I would be a reader and then I am couch potato till I stumble upon something motivating. Then I’ll be watching thriller movies, and then maybe I would be into world of politics!!! (Not the Lankan politics, being safe 😉)

This time around I was into interviews of various kind of people who are successful, Yah! Of course, people don’t upload videos of the miserable failures and how they continue to fail 🫤.

So, a particular individual caught my eye, (Let’s skip the part where he was handsome! And as if that’s not the most attractive thing that attracted me 🫣) When he was sharing his success and how he built his career, I was really amazed; he kept on saying how people around were supportive, how even his failed relationships were wonderful!!! So on and so forth. He never said I struggled through this, people betrayed me, this happened to me that happened to me; the pandemic happened nothing at all.

Yah, for a moment I was like waaw he is faking everything!! He should have something bad in his life, for God’s sake!

But what I understood is that he had rejections, parents’ divorce, losing friends, and lot of other things. He always phrased it as learning. He was very much open to dark as well as light side of the world. He said “He was a part of dark and the light”. He appreciated people around him for all the light they’re giving to him and he recognized the darkness of people as of his. He navigated by appreciating the light. He wide opened his arm for the light of the people and he didn’t forget mention their light.

And when he was sharing all this appreciation with others in his life, I could see his face lit, and the people around him also kind of felt the energy.

I was thinking about my surroundings; we tend to see always the petty things and keep going on with our day by gossiping about that. That’s what keeps us thrive in our workplaces!! (at least mine). So you carry bad gossip about others day to day but act out like nothing is wrong. I gossip, you gossip and all of us gossip. I have seen that sometimes there might not be anything to gossip about, but people will somehow make up and turn a situation into gossip.

I believe people are resilient when they go through hard things. All I am trying to say is that, when things are hard or people are hard to you, try to appreciate the light and the dark. Which will make you more resilient, Don’t try to flip slightest light into dark, which is when you think world is a worst place.

Remember the RIPPLE EFFECT