A world without suffering. In today's times, you wonder if that is any longer a possibility. But reading about the endeavours of some people, you begin to think, 'Perhaps...'
For you to spread the 'Perhaps' happy bug around, you have to first train your mind to always see a glass as half full, not half empty. Then simply fill it to the brim. Now pick up the glass full and offer it to someone who is in pain, is suffering or teetering on the edge of despair. It's transformational. Filling up the glass is as metaphoric as is the act of seeing it as half full (to begin with). There are a thousand ways of filling up that glass just as there are a thousand things that can stand in for a half full glass. A bleak situation, a bruising experience, a hard mental journey, a physical obstacle, an emotional loss... people are stuck by so many kinds of tragedies. But each one of us also possess something- a talent, a gift, a privilege, an art- which if offered generously can help a person deal with the tragedy better!
For you to spread the 'Perhaps' happy bug around, you have to first train your mind to always see a glass as half full, not half empty. Then simply fill it to the brim. Now pick up the glass full and offer it to someone who is in pain, is suffering or teetering on the edge of despair. It's transformational. Filling up the glass is as metaphoric as is the act of seeing it as half full (to begin with). There are a thousand ways of filling up that glass just as there are a thousand things that can stand in for a half full glass. A bleak situation, a bruising experience, a hard mental journey, a physical obstacle, an emotional loss... people are stuck by so many kinds of tragedies. But each one of us also possess something- a talent, a gift, a privilege, an art- which if offered generously can help a person deal with the tragedy better!
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