What’s the worst that could happen – Do not temp fate



Have you ever had a really bad day? I had many of them at UNAM. Your field report is not finished but the deadline is fast creeping up on you like a ngandjera washe!  You rush quickly to the printers and they are out of ink, and then you think to yourself “what is the worst thing that could happen?”. And before that thought has vanished, your memory stick starts acting funny, then the document won’t open, and then the printer runs out of paper. The end result is your report is late, sub-standard and is printed on funny looking paper. 

Have you ever noticed that the more negatively you think and the more pessimistic you are, the more negative the outcome of whatever you are doing? Well things would not be so bad if you were not tempting fate and poking fun at Murphy’s law with statement such as “things can’t get any worse or what’s the worst that could happen”. What my point? Well what I’m trying to say is that negative thinking is really a drag, it’s basically shooting yourself in the foot. Of course they are individuals in situations where negative thinking is the only type possible but those types of people are the most positive people I have ever met. They made me revaluate my thinking; I stopped sabotaging myself and surrounding myself with negative energy.

Its common knowledge the most powerful weapon available to man is thought. A thought can cause havoc, why do you think Julius malema majors in propaganda, planting a thought is so easy and once it is planted is spreads like a bush fire. There is seemingly no way to stop it and that is the danger of negative thinking. It brings you down before you have even left the ground. Of course positive thinking is tricky, sometimes you run into people who label your positive thinking naivety, but that is probably because they are shrouded in negativity and people shrouded in negativity can’t help but hate on anything that smells of positivity. 

I hope I’m making sense (light bulb should have gone up over your head at paragraph 2), because I know how talking in sarcasm can be confusing. But it’s pretty simple if you think about it, if you are negative then you crash and burn but the more positive you are, then the more alternatives you can think up, the more plan B’s you can execute and the harder you try even after each failure. After all Thomas Edison tried 2000 times before he perfected the light bulb, a journalist asked “why did you not give up after failing 2000 times?”, he replied “I never failed, I simply discovered 2000 ways how not to make a light bulb”.

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