Life. You can define it, describe it in many ways, and even compare it to a lot of things. Others would say its like a roller coaster. Sometimes you are on top while at times it brings you down to the bottom. Some people say it is cruel, while some would say it is paradise. But no matter how you look at it, life is a matter of how you picture it to be. The way we feel towards a certain circumstance or event highly depends on the way you paint it in your head.
I know there can be really rough times but that does not mean it is bound to be that way. Human as we are, we have the gift of free will to change whatever it is that is unfolding right before us. Life indeed is what we make it to be. If you think that you are born poor and that you will die poor, then probably that's going to happen to you. If you believe you are weak and incompetent, unconsciously, you will also try to do things that would prove you right of what you believe about yourself. For example, if you think you are dumb, most likely you will not bother to study for the exam because you are already expecting to fail thinking that studying won't help because you are not intelligent to start with. However, if you believe that you are good and life is great, then you will try to do things that would make your predictions come true in a positive light. If you believe you are smart on the other hand, then you would surely study and get good grades because you see yourself that way and failing the exam would ruin that schema about who you are. In Psychology, this is what we call self fulfilling prophecy in which a person unconsciously alters his or her actions to fulfill his or her views and beliefs about things and about life in general.
You may not be aware of it, but you may also have your own predictions or self fulfilling prophecies as these are unconscious gestures that build up within.
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