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Friday, June 17, 2011

How to Stay Positive Around Negative People or How to Stay Focused in Pursuing Your Dreams When Other Friends Try To Stiffle Your Success.

Life is a trip. Literally life is a journey and full of people, places and things that often mold us into seemingly invincible beings or grind us into pieces and leave us as road kill on the highway of humanity. More often then not we end up somewhere in between: existing from day to day hoping that ship will come in but not really sure if we want to take the ride. So we go through each day doing the daily grind and settling for a quiet, meagar existence. If you fall in the middle of the human race, this article is probably not for you.
For those who take each breath like it was their last and lives to love and love to live. For those who don't wait for opportunity to knock, but choose to kick the door in and grab opportunity by the neck and squeeze it bone dry. You may feel alone or certainly lonely. They say "its lonely at the top". This has never been a truer statement. Humans are innately driven and everyone wants something different. Individuals are unique. Each level of desire is valid in relation to the individual who seeks them. Sometimes we find ourselves having one level of desire, while those around us have a different level of desire. These differences can manifest themselves in a variety of ways; sometimes obviously and sometimes more subtle.
You reach a point in your life where you are striving to reach a particular goal or existence and you notice that your circle of support starts to wain. Friends say "Why do you want to do that?" "You shouldn't do that." "You can't do that." "So you think you are better than me." "Thats not practical." Why can't you be more like...?" People are instinctively jealous. We are designed with a wide range of emotions; love, generosity, optimism, anger, fear and jealous to name a few. We can't help it. We are born this way. Sometimes when others appear to have what we want or more than what we have we can become jealous, envious, feeling like why should they have something that we wanted so badly, but did none of the work to get it or from our view, it was just handed to them. While we work our butts off and still can't get what we want. We often justify our feelings  so we can act out. There are also those of us who realize that it rains on everyone and its not what happens to us, but how we deal with it.
Everyone has the ability to be the best they can be. The trick is to make the most of the life you have or to make excuses about why your life is not all you want it to be. It is important to associate ourselves with like minded individuals and for you to be the light you want to see in others and eventually the whole world will be a little brighter. Love, Peace and Happiness, Shadow