Ripples.
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Hello Peeps,
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What a supremely beautiful morning it is here today.
Wall to wall blue skies, with a slight breeze and a blazing sun.
I have just fed the crows and they have been making a terrible racket, before flying off with beaks full of bread,which they then try to steal from each other.
And there are some lovely cooing doves here too.
Beautiful!
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And how are you today?
I hope that you are well, satisfied and happy.
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If you are not, then there is a whole day not touched yet, in which matters may truly improve.
I wish you well.
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My feeling is always that if you look for the best, and believe that you deserve it, then you are more likely to attract what you want.
If you do not really appreciate yourself, and feel that you basically deserve exactly what is happening to you, then it is hard for anything to actually change.
Second best should not be good enough, expect the best instead.
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Do not allow other peoples’ actions to dictate the way that you grow.
If someone offers you spite and backbiting and unpleasantness, then try and see that as their problem, not yours.
Remember that if you retaliate in kind then you are behaving as they do. You can become like them through use and exposure.
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If a person is suspicious, distrustful, and they think that everyone is out to cheat them, if they see all others as liars with hidden agendas, then they could be seeing other people as a reflection of themselves
After all, if they treat other people and relationships in that way, then why would they ever know or realize that there are many wonderful and caring and generous people around them in this life.
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If a generous spirited, tolerant and kind person is sitting, and trying to decide what someone else’s intention is, then they will approach it from the viewpoint of their own way of acting.
If a person who is devious and selfish is trying to decide what that same other person’s intentions could be, then they will approach it from the viewpoint of their own way of looking at the world.
You will probably get two very different interpretations of the third person’s intentions.
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There is a wonderful old story about a man riding his horse up to a city gate, somewhere in the East.
He reins in his horse to speak to an old man who is sitting there.
“I am looking for somewhere to settle down. What sort of city is this” he asks the old man, “What are the people like in here?”
The old man thinks for a moment, before asking the man a question.
“What were the people like where you have just come from?”
“Oh they were awful people”, said the rider, “They were the most terrible liars and cheats”.
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The old man smiled sadly up at him and said “Well, I am afraid you will find that the people here are just as bad.”"
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With that, the man rode off to continue his journey.
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A short time later the old man was approached by yet another rider.
“What sort of city is this” he asked, “Will I be wise to settle down here. What are the people like?”
The old man looked up at the rider and said “Tell me, what were the people like in the place that you have just come from?”
The rider replied “Oh they were wonderful people. The most kind, decent, helpful and caring people that a man could ever hope to find”
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The old man smiled up at the stranger and said “Then I am happy to tell you that you will love it here because you will find that these people are exactly the same. Welcome.”
The rider thanked the old man and rode on through the city gates.
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I mentioned previously that I believe that every action we take makes ripples and that everything that goes around comes around,
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The best thing that you can do , is to begin to treat others as you would wish to be treated.
If someone is unkind to you then do not take it out upon someone else.
If you are the recipient of spite, unfairness and anger then try to stay calm and excuse the rudeness because you are better than that.
I truly believe that if you can improve, in the face of adversity, then you can eventually change your world.
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Start to attract what you need by acting in the way you need to be treated,
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If you keep reacting to someone else’s input, then they have control over how you behave.
Why allow it.
Try feeling pity for them instead.
If they act boorishly, then you can feel sorry for them because you know what sort of a life they will attract to themselves.
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You must send out good ripples.
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Forgive and forget.
Be free to be yourself.
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LOL
Jx
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