THE BEAUTY OF LIFE WAITING TO BE FOUND

                         

         Everyday I wake up, I tell myself not to watch the news. Watch a cartoon, watch a TV show, watch a movie on netflix, watch a game, play a video game, take a jogg, go to the park, go the bar on Friday, do anything else but watch the news. For most people reading this article, some questions running through parts of your mind at this point of the blog might be: What does this blogger have against the news?

It’s quite simple actually, there’s a quote from the movie Collateral beauty and it goes something like this: “ just be sure to notice the collateral beauty” and I have to tell you, that quote has made me start to see the world in a little more possitive light. Lots of negetive things are happening in the world and on top of everything the public living in different countries around the world have to deal wiith the knowledge that the power to change each countries sittuation  lyies in the hands of their leaders, presidents or Government officials.

Here’s the truth, the power to impliment change in any community, city, state or country has never been in the hands of any Government but in the hands of the people.

     Take a country like Nigeria for example. Nigeria is a country found in the west coast of africa. Ever since the year 1960, the year the country won it’s independence from it’s English collonial master, Nigeria has been sufferring a certain level of ethnic injustice in the country. If you are not in touch with your historical facts of the country, let me enlighten you a little bit, Nigeria was created from the forced amalgamation of three completely different tribe who had absolutely nothing in common, except the fact that the three tribes had the same skin complexion and the three tribes were from africa.

Now correct me if i’m wrong but in the PRINCE OF EGYPT, the movie clearly shows that forcing the Isrealites to co-exist in a society with a totally different tribe called the egyptians failed because the Egyptians viewed the Isrealites as an inferio tribe that did not deserve to be given a choice of freedom or free will. Sounds exactly like the sittuation the Igbo tribe in the eastern part of Nigeria is eperiencing today. I should know. I’ve witnessed first hand that level of injustice happen the igbo people.

    In the space of around 1800 – 1960, a historic event occured in the land currently known as Nigeria that changed the lives and impacted the future of an entire nation. Before there was Nigeria, there were three completely different tribes existing in three different landmarks located in west africa. You had the Hausa, the Igbo tribe and ofcause the yoruba tribe, all live independently on different parts of the land mass peacefully.

The three tribes had existed independently with no major problems until the year 1800 landed in the shores of east africa in search of Natural Resources to revive the depleting british economy back in an era of pre modernization. “We discovered uninhabited land!” the British said. Hard to discorver an uninhabited land that already had the presence of fully functioning human being with the ability to reason from the evidence of the triving communities albiet pre colonization.    

    But we are getting sidetracked. The point is that if contents such as europe and africa, etc whom have found a way to recover from serious economic depressions, outbreaks of various disease : smallpox, chicken pox, yellow fever, to name a few, should the expression of love and  appreciation to all human life really be that difficult.

   I read a couple of magnificent books namely written by authors such as THE END OF AVERAGE by Todd Rose, THE BIG PICTURE by David Suzuki and could of other mind stimulating books and these magnificent books, though all discusing different topics all point to one ensetial conclussion, how the life of each and every individual on earth plays out is up the actual individual. All you need are three things:

 Understanding, choice and responsibility: know who you are and what you trully want. Most cases, human beings are so easily subseptable to the power of subliminal messaging that they lose themselves and easily substitute characters from who they are to who the world has convinced them to be and there is few better place where evidence of personality switches plays out than our modern day MOVIES or stories . At some point in most peoples lives, stories have been told or movies have been told of two characters, the hero/ heroine and the vilan/vileness. Ofcause the hero/heroine is usually potrayed as the good character in the story who gets showered with all the glory, possitivity and happiness.

 The villan/villaness on the other hand recieves condemnation and doom. Makes sense right? Good people get rewarded with nice results and bad people get rewarded with horrible results. Circle of life, fate, destiny. All adds up. However, what most movies fail to explain in most cases is the reason why most characters chose the path which they have chosen. Careful disection of almost every human life tends to show trails of subliminal messaging recieved from the actions of other human beings. Don’t get me wrong, not all actions taken by human beings are as a result of subliminal messaging (actions taken as a result of past life experience stored aware in an important part of the brain called the Basal Ganglier ).

A very small portion of negative actions taken by human beings might be as a result of other factors besides negative experiences but no matter the reasons for your actions, most human beings possess the ability to pause, connect to the brains central intelligence core ( medular oblangata) with the part of the brain responsible for good or possitive emotions ( The Amygdala).

Listen, I could decide to take an ernomous period of each and every readers time talking almost endlessly about scientific facts which quiet frankly I don’t know to much about. I’m not a neuroligist, phycologist, teacher, medeical practisioner, politician or even a motivational speaker. Frankly, i am almost sure that most people who come across this article online will ask themselves what did I just read? That is ok because you read something some. Withen even the shortest sentence lies the opportunity to learn something new or remember something possitively inspiring which we were already aware of and choose to constantly put into action in our lives.

You might also ask yourselves why do I feel like reading this article was a total waste of time? Thoughts and questions might lead anyone to feeling a sense of dissapointment and feeling dissapointed is ok too. As long as one realizes that feelings of dissapointment or despair should be used as inspiration to search for more possitive, uplifting things in life.

Being possitive, being happy, being fufilled in life is never easy. Modern society has been set up with so many stumbling blocks set up to switch peoples emotional state from possitive to negative in the blink of an eye. But just as the human mind switched to a sense of hopelessness, anger, fear or cynism(cynical) human beings hold the power to switch each negative mode of thinking into a sense of hope, enthusiasm, cheerfullness, optimism. Switching our way of thinking is never easy, and quite frankly I will never claim to be the smartest human being alive. But one fact which I will never deny is just like most human beings on earth, I choose the course of action I take in life. I am responsible for all the possitive choices,  I am responsible for all the negative choices I make in life. Some sittions might not present people with the ability to make choices but there are very limited sittuations where the ability to choose the mental state human beings operate within his or her daily life.

  

Life can be amazing because of the choices (big or small) human beings make each single moment. Human choices can always easily be influenced unconsiously by the tiniest sittuation that happen in our daily lives. Most occassions not all of us mere motals hold the power to decide what happens in the world but the choice of how to respond to each sittuation, how each sittuation in life is mentaly processed and actively delivered is  power that no one can take away from anyone.

Choose the possitive part of the brain( the left prefontal cortex) over the less possitive part of the brain ( the right prefontal contex) as much as possible. The choice is yours. However, life has shown me enough evidence to suggest that possitive thinking yield possitive results. Look around and a good part of life around us is constantly attempting to force human beings to choose negativity over possitivity. Personally speaking operating life with a negative mindset leaves me with a sense of despair rather than optimism.

For people out there in the world feeling lost, persimistic, sad, hurt, a pain I can honestly tell you that honest I know the feeling and sometimes I still do. But I put this to you to try and ask yourself the same question I ask myself whenever I return to my negative mindset. Believe me when I say that this question is never easy to ask or accept but the bright side to asking this question is that the right answer can be so physically and so mentally rewarding :

IS IT TIME TO FLIP THE PSYCHOLOGICAL SWITCH ?