With all the beating up we do to ourselves, with the ease with which others do it to us, with great emphasis on the game of degrade and demote on television, in school yards, and during corporate one-upmanships, no one wins at this game.
The losers are many. The winners are few to none. If we believe as Napoleon Hill, Thomas Edison, and Carl Jung that our thoughts are not garbage, they are priceless gems sent into the airwaves, airwaves of sorrow; they are full of it, as are the people who dispense their pollutants into the air and sorrow riddled, tender ears.
But there is a residual effect, for not all of the waste goes to intended ears. Quite a bit is deflected into the ears of children standing nearby and others who pass on its vile nature with little thought, for we are creatures who replicate that which appears right or popular simply to win admiration.
There are many pollutants that go into the air, ground, oceans, lakes and streams. But the greatest pollutant is sent by polluters who will pollute the outer-world no more, for their inner worlds made barren by the negating of their lessers, their greaters, their peers has destroyed all they know.
But can it be stopped before complete anniliation?
When all has been destroyed?
After the creation of secular, religious, racial, cultural, and geographic boarders have crisscrossed our mental, spiritual, and physical landscapes like a cat's ball of yarn, suffocating all without and within? To the point where nothing grows?. Nothing ends or begins?
Seek encouragement's bliss. Tend to its soul and it will bind you, and in your bound state you will set so many free from the cat's ball of yarn. And you will create yarns that stand loose, loving and accepting of all difference. Tolerance and forgiveness the key.
And you too will . . .
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.
Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.
Make all you meet feel that there is something in them.
Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.
Think only the best, to work only for the best and expect only the best.
Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
Be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble
And remember members that you are and will always be loved.
-The Optimist Club Of America
