Monday, December 07, 2009 4:09 PM
an explanation or opinion of what something means
That's true, you find your own meaning to something happened. Something awful happened, well the word 'awful' or can be any other synonyms to it is an interpretation you made for yourself. Things occurred to you like the way they are, but it is in you how you relate yourself to interpret the current situation your facing, often in breakdowns.
Breakdowns do happened when ever you at the top most high-level breakthroughs you had in life, there is always a breakdown when you are at a certain level in happiness. Thus, aren't you excited when there's breakdown, there's a huge breakthrough. Keep in mind it keeps recurring, notice ups and downs in life.
How do you react to it?
When you're down, you'll be happy once again. And again you'll feel down, and again you'll be happy.
And again you'll feel down, and again you'll be happy. And again you'll feel down, and again you'll be happy.
It's endless.
But if you put your stories, your interpretation about something, mostly on people you love or achieving your goals in life, your interpretation is true to you.
- Once you said, it's not gonna work. Than it's not gonna work.
- Once you said you can do it, though you don't know how. Your mind starts to work and eventually you're climbing for it. I bet you want to choose this when you're asked to choose one.
So, forget about your interpretations towards them/it. It maybe hard, IF you choose it's hard. :)
Beliefs...
When people argue for their limitations they say: "I can't do 'X' because..."
The common excuse is :
"It's just the way I AM."
More likely the truth is :
"It's just the way I THINK I AM."
We can learn about our beliefs by studying fish.
(The following experiment was conducted at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute)
Get yourself an aquarium. Divide it in half with clear glass wall, so now you have a kind of fish "duplex".
Now find yourself a barracuda - we'll call him Barry - and a mullet (Barracuda eat mullet).
Put one fish on each side. In a flash, Barry will head for mullet and... thump ... hit the glass wall at full throttle.
He'll turn around and come back for another shot... thump!
Over a period of weeks, Barry will get a very sore nose. Eventually he'll figure that mullet haunting equals pain and quit chasing the mullet. You can then remove the glass wall, and guess what! He will stay on his side of the tank for the rest of his life. Barry will happily starve to death, with the mullet swimming just inches away. He knows his limits and he won't step outside them.
Is Barry's a pitiful tale? It is actually the story of every human being.
We don't run to glass walls - we run into teachers, parents and friends who tell us where we fit and what we can do. Worst of all, we run into our own beliefs. Our beliefs define our territory, we argue for it and we won't step outside it.
Barry the Barracuda says: "I gave it my best shot once - so now I just swim in circles"
We human says: "I gave my studies/my marriage/my job my best shot once before..."
We create our own glass cage and we think it is reality. Actually, it's just what we believe.
And how attached are people to their beliefs?
I share this to you,
cos it's also for me.
I've seen people transform, cos it's you who made them and they who choose to accept
and I really care for you.