Perception

People perceive aspects of life in different ways. You can look at a rainy day as a miserable happening or an opportunity to do something fun indoors. That is a basic way that people can perceive things in different ways. I would like to write a pair of similar stories, just to convey the contrast:

Lily was, well, not an optimist, to say the least. Everyday she found fault with life and expressed it in a rather unpleasant way. Her grumbles and moans at things that most people would find exciting and interesting meant that she was widely disliked. She had an inability to see the glass half-full. It was a shame, really, because when she was younger she was rather charismatic- she charmed everyone she met. But now she had changed. She found a problem with everything, including when she got excellent results in school- she thought of it as "sympathy marks."

Mollie found a light at the end of every tunnel, however dark, dank or long the tunnel was. Today was a day like every other- she glanced out of the curtain, to see the ash clouds drip rain onto the foggy world. But Mollie didn't mind, in fact, she planned to write a story, which did not require pleasant weather. She lifted her hand off her maths homework book, revealing the meticulous rows of sums that were probably all correct, complete with a logical explanation for each calculation. She heaved a sigh of pleasure while she mentally planned an interesting, philosophical story. She began to type out this story, and she realised how much delight she found in writing- and this did not need any weather type.

Can you see how Lily's strangely pessimistic views on life are affecting her and how people judge her (she is widely disliked)? And how Mollie is benefitting from her overall positive thoughts? Seemingly small things like how you intepret the weather are a huge reflection on you. This is not only how you perceive the world, but how others perceive you. If you perceive with positive thoughts, they are most likely to perceive you with positive thoughts.

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