The Journey

Does it really matter what other people are thinking about you? Would it change the way you think about yourself? Would you want to change your mind about yourself when other people think otherwise? Does it bother you when people think negative about you? Would you want to change your behavior as the result of other people’s thinking about you?

The truth is, I cannot really ignore what other people are thinking about me. I’m not living alone in this world. Whether or not I like it, it is a reality that other people’s thinking about me are affecting my own thinking about myself. Is that a bad thing? It is not to dwell on other people’s negative thinking about me or critics on me. The energy is better used and directed to a more positive action, whether or not I agree with those negative thinking or critics. Arguing about whether or not I should agree with those negative thinking or critics is probably not a good idea either. When someone throws a critic at me, the defensive wall tend to rise. It just feels so natural that way, protecting self from the outside world. Yet, I sense that couldn’t always be the best first reaction, not when you choose to live in the world that is filled with human interaction.

We live in an unpredictable Planet Earth and human is so dependent on its nature. We have witnessed so many catastrophic events due to natural disasters around the world almost in each month of last year and as Planet Earth was seen so restless at that time it is almost expected that it gets even more restless this year and years to come. That alone would likely be able to destroy and wipe out the entire human lives, and yet there are other causes of catastrophic events just as deadly, to add the list i.e. war, crimes, accidents, suicides, etc. It is as if human can’t wait to be erased from this universe. They are so in a hurry to take each others lives or their own for that matter. Strange or maybe it’s not so strange phenomenon that human act that way. Human is so intelligent yet can be so foolish. No human is free from making any mistakes which could be a weakness and strength at the same time and human can be so unforgiving to each other. It is strange that way. It’s such a great mystery that human can live peacefully at one side and in such rage and enmity on another side of the world.