Where do we point the spotlight?

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Weak people notice other people's mistakes or faults and laugh or make fun of them.

A strong person notices the faults or omissions of others and learns from them. Weak people talk about other people's problems to make themselves feel better about their own problems and to make themselves feel better than everyone else. Strong people talk about other people's problems in order to become better themselves. Gossiping is one of the main activities of weak people, thereby achieving a weak connection with those around them. Strong connections are achieved by strong people when they talk about and express their own vulnerabilities. Weak people envy those ahead of them in line; strong people, on the other hand, study those ahead of them in order to learn from them and improve their way of being.

You know what's most interesting about all this? It's that both people (the weak and the strong) are looking at the same things, but they're seeing different things.

Often, despite being faced with something that could even be beneficial to us, we can only see the less positive side, or the less advantageous side. How many of us only try to look at situations and see what's... literally there?

Having something that wasn't "planned" or wasn't in line with our will or desire can be seen as something we can learn to do better.

We can use this lesson to have something new at a second opportunity, which we can use as a tool to better relate and connect with what's going on around us.

A self-centered view, based only on our feelings, our fears, our achievements, our personal prizes or conquests, only leads and brings us down paths that we have already traveled so many times. We end up being passengers, distracted by the same path (we think) in our lives, letting ourselves be lulled by what provokes or invokes certain feelings or sensations.

No one is exclusively a strong or weak person. It's only where you decide to focus, and how you respond to what's going on with yourself and others, that changes where we point our spotlight!

Bem Hajam🍀

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