It's so easy to complain. We all do it at times, some of us more than others. We all have various and sometimes numerous reasons to complain. We complain about our job, our health, the weather, our neighbors, our kids, our families, our government, the environment, the state of the world…
However, the question is, does complaining help? And, of course, we all know the answer… complaining does not really help.
We've all heard that "what we focus on expands" (if you hadn't heard it before, now you have). The more we focus on something, the more it seems bigger, even if just in our minds. Just think about it. If the weather is not to your liking and you keep focusing on it (complaining about it), it doesn't help at all -- it just makes you more upset or depressed about the state of the weather. However, if you choose to go on about your life and make the best of it (rain or no rain, sunshine or not), you can create a great experience for yourself, which you would not have had if you had just sat there and complained about the weather.
Complaining about something in the state of the world (whether we're talking about our small world or the world at large) is not a constructive solution. It is rather destructive. The more we complain, the more we feel negative, and the more the people we are complaining to feel negative (either about the situation in general, or about having to listen to us complain).
We do have a choice. We can choose to complain about our life, about events in it, about the situation in world politics, about the environment, or we can "get off the pot" and do something about it. We are not helpless. We have the power to make decisions, to take action, to make changes. Our life is as we make it.
Yes, things happen "to us", but how we react, and what we choose to do about it is entirely up to us. We can focus on personal growth and healing our lives. Yet, we need to remember that healing our lives involves the healing of the planet which is our home. We are not separate from the world. We are not in an alternate reality. This is our reality, here and now. However small your effort may seem to you, do your part.
Excerpted from Marie T. Russell
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