Blessings in disguise

I checked into a local hotel one night when I realized later that one of the tennants was a transvestite. He would make a great male figure physically but unfortunately he prefer to stay confused. I overheard someone said that when god made him, he purposely created him all messed up. He should have been a woman instead. I posed the same question to myself. Should I blame god for all my troubles and imperfectness in life?

I have been through several ordeals in life that makes me question myself about what lies hidden beneath all this. I almost give up on everything until something knocked on my heart. It was love. Since then I gained my self confidence and start to fight for my happiness in life. I realized that the troubles that god has given to me is actually to show that he acknowledges my presence in this world and he wants my life to change.

All the troubles that exist in life serves to help a person to improve or change themselves. I was a timid person before until something happen that put me into melancholy for years. Once I get over my grief and started to look at life from a different perspective. I find myself stronger than I was, higher self-confidence, motivated and independent. My life changes from being a helpless timid girl into the person I am right now. Though I hate the bitter experience, but I am thankful to god for his blessing, changing me into the person I am right now. He hate those who gave up in life. I didn't.

Aptitude vs Attitude

This is a travel journal written by my lecturer which he later shared with us on the last class before the end of the semester. I think it is beautifully written, a dose of medicine to those who needed an answer or reason to look forward for a better day and excel in life someday.

A positive mental attitude leads to achievement. Success in any field of end endeavour is deep rooted in attitudes, not in aptitude.

Altogether too much academic emphasis has been placed upon aptitude in recent years. It isn’t aptitude that counts nearly so much as attitude. Aptitude is nothing in comparison with attitude. Attitude is everything.

It is a strange fact that we are often misguided by our thinking yet we know we can control our thoughts. By thought control, we can set our own course. And steer our lives to ports of plenty and harbours of happiness.

Decide now that you want no part of the negative side of the street. If moods of depression or thoughts of fear and worry creep into your mental thinking, vanish them at once by the antidoting process.

Replace them with their opposite such as love thought to replace the hate thought, the friendly thought to replace the enemy thought, the abundance thought to take the place of poverty thoughts and so on.

In school we made the best grades in subjects that appeals to our likings. If we enjoy doing a certain job, it becomes a labour of love. If we disliked doing the same job, it would be drudgery. We should treat everything that crosses the path of our journey through life as a stepping stone towards the achievement of our ambitions and goal.

Since we tend to become what we think about, it is logical that we should fill our minds with positive thoughts of happiness, cheerfulness, optimism and good health. We should never-never permit the success killing thoughts or fear, worry, pessimism and sorrow to dwell in the mind.