Gil Scott-Heron
Its just what I want to say, in a world where there is thousands or millions of people hooked on legal drugs, going crazy, loosing their sanity, loosing their happiness, being kept alive by doctors who prescribe with no sense whatsoever.
Just Today sitting on a bus from Coimbra ... got talking with a lady ... grandmother already, sad person, started talking about all her problems and illnesses and showing me the pills she was taking. We kept on talking and she does realize she is hooked and these drugs are no better than the illegal drugs. So few moments of happiness followed by anxieties and feelings of depression. And we kept on talking ... telling her stories of people who made it ... and that it is possible, if you believe in it, if you take your life in your hands.
People do want to deliver themselves to whomever they want to trust and they deposit ones' life into a doctor's hands.
From close relationships with several people I have come to understand that these pills never cure you, they just shut you down.
WAKE UP! YOU GOT A LIFE TO LIVE!
There are always two sides to things and never an absolute reality. You create your own reality. Take life in your hands. Take full responsibility for your happiness. And believe ...
SO PUT YOUR ATTENTION ON THE POSITIVE SIDE OF THINGS.
Take this lady on the bus, a wonderful husband that supports her, several children and grandchildren that she loves, nevertheless she highlights only problems. She cant put her attention to the huge positive side of her life. And by selecting only the negative aspects of her life she creates a life of misery and depression to herself.
NOBODY EVER SAID IT WOULD BE EASY.
Every single day we are building our reality, making choices ... and the more you are conscious of this process, of the possibility of creating your own life ... then the more you take life in your hands and make happiness happen.
Have you ever question yourself why do some people ... that have so many problems can still laugh, while others with such an easy life keep on mourning? Well thats just because some people see the positive side of life, while others dont.
Your mind is an amazing and a complicated thing. STOP! OBSERVE YOURSELF! PUT YOUR ATTENTION ON THE USEFUL THOUGHTS, on those thoughts that have the potential to sustain a healthy and enduring happiness. Of course there will always be hard times, there will always be sad times, but do not get hooked on them, and mainly ... do not get hooked on drugs, being them legal or illegal.
BE SANE, BE STRONG, BE FREE