I was very surprised when I saw today’s quote in a website searching for a quote related to something like ‘inspiration and anger’::
We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration. – Alanis Morissette
It made me feel much more relaxed straight away as I realized that emotions are just emotions, they are not ‘good’ or ‘bad’, they just are, they just are expressions of what you are feeling, of what’s going on in you and/or around you.
And now I’m a bit lost on how to continue. Because this site is about Inspiration for Success and with what I know from the Principles of Success as stated by Napoleon Hill positive emotions lead to success, not negative emotions.
And I also prefer to experience positive emotions, not negative. And I guess most people do. But while writing this post I get more and more a weird feeling as you can only experience positive if you know the negative. So would it also be something like you can only experience a certain level of positive emotion if you also have experienced a same level of negative emotion? Is there some kind of balance there? And how would you measure that? Or has there been research done on these things?
Weird. And looking at myself my experience in life has been mainly negative. But that’s just my experience, how I experience life, how I look at my life. Comparing myself to others I guess, others in my surroundings, not others like ‘everybody in the world’. Or comparing my life to what I wanted, comparing it to what I expected.
Wow, I opened some subject here. Maybe it’s indeed all about how you look at things, like if a glass is half empty or half full. If you look at it objectively my life hasn’t been that bad. Yes, I had a lot of problems with work. And a lot of relationship issues. But thinking right now, these are exactly the things that are important to me. So if there is something wrong there I guess it gets magnified, maybe magnified beyond proportions.
And yes, I am very stubborn, want things my way. And I won’t give up. And these things of course also seem to create the problems. And keep me in situations I don’t like. But in the end I believe in persistence. And yes, in the end I still believe that my persistence will pay off, will lead me to success, to the success I’m looking for and by now also really need, really feel I deserve.
So in the end it seems indeed all about choice, choice to persist, choice to stick with what you’re ‘willing to give’ (from the six steps in the chapter desire in Think and Grow Rich). In expectation of success, in expectation to realize your dreams. And belief that you will get there.
Yes, life is weird, don’t you also think?