It is true that the world is ladened with unpleasant things, but it does not take away the fact that there are good things in life and these should be where we should focus our dominant attention on. You will agree with me that in the darkest of nights, your whole hope is usually based on the dawning of the day, not on how long the night lasts. This is because, the length of hours in the night notwithstanding, the day must surely dawn. This is what is meant by focusing your dominant attention on the brighter side of life. There are things that you can change and there are things that, no matter how hard you try, you will not be able to change. You should rather focus on the former and then have hopes of better days.
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There are many good things in the world but you can only see them if you remove your eyes from the areas that you think are not working and focus on the bright side (which is life itself). Of course, there are many people that have lost their lives and as such, have had their hopes truncated, but as long as you still have life, then hope is still available for you. So you should focus on that. The major hinge upon which our hope is hanging on is the gift of life, and no matter how dark the world is, we can still focus on the bright side of life.
Sometimes ago, one of my friends was complaining about the high cost of building materials because he was embarked on his personal house building project. Each time we met, this was the only thing he talked about - increase in cost of cement, high cost of sand, rod, etc. At a point, I drew his attention to one thing. I told his that he is able to be building house; that should make him thankful and not complaining. I also told him that there are many people that do not even have land, talk more of building, but here he is, complaining about what he should be thankful of. If only he was able to focus on the good side, he would have known that he is already in the league of elites in the country.
It is true that the world is not all rosy, neither is the world without the existence of challenges, but this is also what makes life adventurous and worthwhile. In the true sense, without the existence of challenges at all, life itself would be so boring because there will be no need to do anything and there will be no solution to proffer because there is no problem in the first place. Without the night time, the dawning of the day will not be appreciated. Without conflict, the need for peace will not be appreciated. Without challenges, solutions will not be appreciated. So each time challenge comes, you do not have to see it as something that has come to stop you but look at it from the brighter side as something that has come to provide the springboard to ascend higher.
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To be able to see opportunities in the midst of challenges, or to see light even inside darkness, you need to develop your mindset and think with an open mind (instead of an empty mind), and then try to look ahead and beyond what you can see. Only then will you realise that the cave you despise or even afraid of may be what is housing the treasure that you are earnestly seeking for. No matter how bad a situation is, you cannot rule it off as useless because something good can still come out of it. You will agree with me that when gold is dug, it looks muddy and dirty, if you discard it because it is covered in dirt, you will miss out of something beautiful. In the same way, that a situation looks bad at the moment does not mean that there is no bright side of it and it does not also mean that good things cannot come out of it. So always have that in mind.
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