THROUGH THE EYES OF A CAMERA

It is so easy to get caught up in this troubled and turbulent world of ours...
For example, if you are a passionate reader of newspapers and other media, then you get mentally caught up in the drama of the world at large. Since disasters are news worthy, they get printed readily. Very seldom do you read about ‘happy’ events. So it goes to say that you will be thinking about all those unhappy events constantly and for some folk, this generates constant negative thoughts and thinking.

Another example: If you are locked into your work situation and find it difficult to not think about work, then you ‘become’ your work. If your work is stressful, then you will be generally stressed.

I recently had a very interesting insight into my own life:

For the past year and a bit, I have been constantly carrying my camera around with me. I am an avert blogger (on my other blog) and have designed
“Max’s blog”
in such a way so that it will be seen as imparting ‘positivity’. For that reason, I search constantly for that beautiful photograph. Each moment of the day, in whatever I am doing, I wonder about the potential ‘photo opportunity’ that the moment presents. It often happens that when I upload my photos onto the computer, I crop them too, so that only the ‘good’ is displayed.

Over the months of blogging, the collection of ‘beautiful’, ‘good’, ‘positive’ and ‘happy’ photos has increased, so that now when I look at my blog, it becomes inspiring and I find myself thinking more positive thoughts generally. These in turn, inspire me to continue and it has become – for me - the total opposite mental thinking to the disheartening and negative events of four years ago.

The point I am making is that the “positivity” which has emerged in me has been the direct result of a conscious decision to look for the positive.

So I leave you with this thought:....

Is it not possible, that our emotions are determined by a conscious decision to react to our reality in a particular way?

It seems, to me, that “WE ARE WHAT WE CHOOSE TO THINK ABOUT!”