WHEN THE WIND SHAKES THE BUSHES

 




“The same wind that blows down your house

shakes berries from the bushes.”

Marci Ridlon

 


“Be watchful about the effect of people and the information on your mind,” I heard this speaker telling his audience, “Some people you interact with and some information you consume can drain your energy and pull you down in life.”

There are people who drain our energy, and they do pull us down. And, these people need not necessarily be ‘outsiders’; often, they are ‘insiders’ – what we call the ‘significant people’ in our lives. 

Thus, cutting off these people from our lives can be a difficult task. Yet, we need to find out ways to work around them, so that their negativity doesn’t leave us drained and drag us down in life.

Easier said than done… I know. But, experience does teach us, that, in Life, some ‘crap’, we can cut; some, we can only shield ourselves from… Let the crap be!

When it comes to information, it’s relatively easier to cut the crap. After all, we all have the choice on what content to read or listen, what to watch, believe, follow or spread. We all can sense the effect this information – this content – is having on our mind. Through this sensor, we can choose what information to let into our minds, and what not to.

The negativity is toxic… Be it coming from people around us or the content we consume every day. No matter how hard we may try to live in a world surrounded by ‘positive people’ and consume ‘positive content’, the world will not be free from negative ones. Let’s learn to say, “Let the world be.” And, as Marci Ridlom reminds us, “The same wind that blows down your house shakes berries from the bushes.”






The trick, therefore, is to pick the berries when the wind shakes the bushes…

 

GERALD D’CUNHA

 

Pic.: Pixels

 

Video: Ginger Cat

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