I felt inspired to share this short story with you today after I read an article yesterday posted by a friend of mine @jaynie a few days ago here on Steemit. It is also in response to a few others I have seen during the course of the week, and in general the theme is about "not coping with life".
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Sometimes it’s the simplest stories that make us ponder the most….
The Story is called "The Black Dot"
One day a professor entered a classroom and asked her students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited anxiously at their desks for the test to begin. The professor walked around the classroom and handed out the question papers with the text facing downwards. Once she had handed them all out she asked her students to turn the page and begin. To everyone’s surprise, there were no questions, just a black dot in the center of the page. All of them with no exceptions described the black dot, trying to explain its position in the middle of the sheet. After all the answers had been read, the classroom was silent, and the professor began to explain. “I am not going to grade you on this test I just wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the white part of the paper, everyone focused on the black dot, and the same happens in our lives. We have a white paper – many wonderful things we have around us or happen to us but we take them for granted and focus our attention on small dotlike failures and disappointments, the health issues, the money that we need, the luxuries we don’t have, relationship complications, problems with family members, disappointments with friends and so on. Life is a special gift and we always have reason to celebrate. It is changing and renewing every day. Our friends, jobs, livelihood, love, family, and all the miracles we could see. We need to realise that the dark spots are very small and only few. And yet we allow these to pollute our minds. Take your eyes away from the black spots in your life. Enjoy each one of your blessings each moment that life gives you.
The professor said to everyone’s confusion: - “I want you to write what you see there”. The worried students began to do what they’d been told to do. At the end of the class, the teacher took all the answers and read them aloud in front of the students.
The lesson:
Take your focus away from the black dots in your life. Remember always that your thoughts create beliefs and these beliefs ultimately create your reality.
Be grateful for everything and all of your blessings, as well as each and every moment that life is giving you. Learn to be aware of your thoughts at all times and watch how your reality shifts. Be happy and strive to live a life filled with love!"
which inspired me to write this please visit the link below: -
https://steemit.com/life/@jaynie/fnck-the-war-inside-our-heads
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