New Way of Thinking

 

Today was very powerful and very eye-opening to me. I saw that every time in life I meet a person, I paint a picture of them in my head of how I thought or hoped they were. As I got to know them more and more, I still gave them the benefit of the doubt and hoped they would fully fill the picture I painted for them, and when they didn't, I disappointed myself, and I was disappointed in them. I have to look at the facts of how they are and then set my expectations for them, and if they can't live up to them or don't even try, I have to let them go and surround myself with people that have the same or a higher caliber of thinking and not lower myself to make someone else happy while I am miserable.

Every decision in life has such a big effect, no matter how small it is. As long as I do my best and I feel content with what I do, then my job is done. And I can't live in fear when things get too good, or I feel too good that something will go wrong, because I know I am in control of how my life goes and how I feel. I navigate my life, and I will make it as good as I want it to be, and no one else has the power to set my limits.

R.V., Student at Narconon Balkan