LIVING IN THE PAST

Psychological Suicide

WHEN you speak to people, you will find that the majority of them live in a negative state of mind, bearing some grudge or the other against someone else. Perhaps it is difficult to find a positive thinker in the complete sense, in today’s world.

Negative thinking produces a negative personality, which can lead to psychological suicide. If you scrutinize people, you will find that their grievances are based on some happenings in the past. If anything unpleasant happens in their lives, they continue to mention it to others and perpetuate it in their own memory. This habit is highly destructive and is the greatest cause for the formation of a negative personality.

Everyone should be made conscious of this so that whenever any unpleasant happenings take place in their lives, they know that they must cast those thoughts into oblivion. They should never mention them to others, but they should try their best to discover some pleasant aspect of these unpleasant experiences and convert whatever is negative in them into something positive, just like a traveller who immediately removes the thorns from his feet when pricked. He does not then make this a part of his living memory.

A wise person is one who deliberately forgets the bitter memories of the past, and who does not let his mind become a jungle of bitter thoughts. There is no other way to lead a successful life in this world.