Under the right circumstances, we can all be confident, outgoing, positive and successful. And under the wrong ones? Well, even the most buoyant will eventually sink under the weight of enough psychological sandbags. But what specifically are the 'wrong circumstances'? What one person sees as wrong, another may feel fine about. Only you know where your limits lie and you can only ever really know that by going right up to them. But much more in your life is now right, than wrong. As soon, you will see.
They say that, 'What goes up, must come down.' And though that nice Mr Newton's laws of gravity don't translate directly into the realm of the psyche, there is a parallel of a kind. All processes have their peaks and troughs, all arrangements, activities and involvements. That's why some people argue that to avoid the downs, we should learn to quit while we are ahead. But how do we ever know how much further ahead there is to go? One key factor in your life now, is on an up. It can yet rise much higher.
It sometimes seems as if we have a primeval attraction to ultimates and absolutes. 'This is the best.' 'That is the worst.' 'What's happening here is good.' 'What's happening there is bad.' Could it be, we desire such distinctions so deeply that we are sometimes tempted to make them inappropriately. The trouble here is that once we have made an emphatic declaration about where we stand on a particular matter, it becomes rather difficult to retract it. Life now offers you the chance to escape an unfortunately entrenched position.
The world, it sometimes seems, is full of people criticising other people. We all take a view. We all have an opinion. 'The trouble with the government is this.' 'That organisation made a big a mistake when it did that.' 'So-and-so needs to learn to stop doing such and such.' Perhaps we ought to listen to each other more. Or perhaps we should be a little less hasty about the judgements we make. It is neither in the rights nor the wrongs that a great discovery is now to be made. But in the grey area, somewhere in between.
They say that, 'What goes up, must come down.' And though that nice Mr Newton's laws of gravity don't translate directly into the realm of the psyche, there is a parallel of a kind. All processes have their peaks and troughs, all arrangements, activities and involvements. That's why some people argue that to avoid the downs, we should learn to quit while we are ahead. But how do we ever know how much further ahead there is to go? One key factor in your life now, is on an up. It can yet rise much higher.
It sometimes seems as if we have a primeval attraction to ultimates and absolutes. 'This is the best.' 'That is the worst.' 'What's happening here is good.' 'What's happening there is bad.' Could it be, we desire such distinctions so deeply that we are sometimes tempted to make them inappropriately. The trouble here is that once we have made an emphatic declaration about where we stand on a particular matter, it becomes rather difficult to retract it. Life now offers you the chance to escape an unfortunately entrenched position.
The world, it sometimes seems, is full of people criticising other people. We all take a view. We all have an opinion. 'The trouble with the government is this.' 'That organisation made a big a mistake when it did that.' 'So-and-so needs to learn to stop doing such and such.' Perhaps we ought to listen to each other more. Or perhaps we should be a little less hasty about the judgements we make. It is neither in the rights nor the wrongs that a great discovery is now to be made. But in the grey area, somewhere in between.
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