Kazuki's diary

Three Final Lessons

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[*]Negative emotions are only negative because we choose to make them so.
We make them negative when we fail to see the other side of an issue.

We have two feet, a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. We as humans make progress by taking one step to the right and then to the left. If you stay only on the right foot - being right and making others wrong - you to in circles. And that is what people do when they hang onto negative thoughts and emotions. They spend their life making others wrong, making themselves right, and traveling in a circle of bitterness as the rest of the world moves on into the future.

[*]Laughter is God's reward for getting the lesson.
A Buddhist monk once said to me, "Laughter is the base emotion of God. God wants us to laugh once get the lesson from the negative emotions."

In Western culture we often say, "Someday we'll laugh at this." In other words, someday we'll laugh at how silly we have been.

Rather than waiting to laugh, why not start laughing now? When I find myself bitter and blaming, I do my best to find how I am responsible, what I need to learn, why I was such a fool, and begin to laugh. Once I can laugh at myself, the healing process has begun.

[*]Life is life.
None of us is born with a script entitled, "Your Perfect Life." Life is not a straight line. the quality of one's life is determined by how you handle each moment, day-by-day. Life is determined by how we handle our past and present, which determines our future. The good news is that everyday we are given a new opportunity to choose how we want to handle our life. We have the choice to handle life's challenges as cowards, heroes, loser or winers. Always remember this. The next time something good or bad happens to you, know that you have the power to decide how to make your life bad, better, or the best. This is done when you make the choice to not run from your problems, becoming better from, and eve grateful for, the challenges life puts in front of you.
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The Final Thought
My final thought on negative emotions is, "Don't hang onto negative emotions. Instead, focus on the other side. Upon seeing both sides of an issue, the lesson will appear. Once you learn your lesson and see how silly you have been and how valuable the lessons to be learned are, starting laughing at yourself and be grateful.
So, take an inventory of your negative feelings, see the other side, get the lesson, and start laughing.
A wise person once said, "Laugh and the world laughs with you."
Be right and b-lame, and you travel in circles. When you blame, you hold on to the past. When you take responsibility, you change your future.

Robert Kiyosaki