“A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; It will never Pass into nothingness.” ― John Keats
Recently I attended annual day
celebrations of a college and was returning home in their college bus. I was
very excited the way the annual day was celebrated, and especially I enjoyed
speeches delivered by prestigious personalities. A woman faculty member sitting
behind me in the college bus started to criticize the management of the
educational institution for not giving any prizes to their girl students as the
faculty belonged to women’s college. And her girl students were also sitting
around her. She also criticized in the presence of her girl students that the
girls from her college were used by management of the educational institution
to give away awards to the noted personalities on the dais. I felt very bad the
kind of language she used in the bus about girl students and in front of them.
I realized that the women faculty was
upset with management and unhappy that none of her girl students received any
prizes. I intervened with a smile and said her as follows:
Instead of thinking that the girls
from your college were used by management, think with a positive perception
that the girls from your college are so beautiful that they were invited to
give away bouquets and awards to the dignitaries on the dais. After listening
to my comment the girl students felt happy. Secondly, I told to women faculty to think and
say as follows: “The girls from our women college are so broadminded that they
give awards to others and don’t expect any prizes from others. Also, I added
that without the active participation of beautiful girls from our college the
annual day celebrations will be incomplete.”
The women faculty smiled and felt
happy with the way I presented her statements in a positive light and girls
were so excited with my compliment. And all of us travelled back to home by
college bus with sweet memories.
From this story, it is obvious that
everything depends on the way we look at things. If you look at positively
everything looks positive; and if you look at negatively everything looks
negative. George Harrison rightly quoted, “It's all in the mind.” Remember the slogan: “We see the world the
way we are, not the way they are.” Convert your mindset from complaining to
compliment to make the people around you happy.
“Life is 10 percent what you make it
and 90 percent how you take it.” ― Irving Berlin
Life is great!
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