New Year's Resolution-Positivity

I know that today is April 1st, but this is not a joke.  And I know that New Year's resolutions are supposed to be made in January, but sometimes there are just things that seem like epiphanies that hit us later on in the year.

Like many of my fellow citizens I have been involved in watching news events on television and online on a daily basis. While the events emanating  from the workings of our representatives in Washington are engrossing (in a soap opera kind of way), I think that it has affected the general mood of the country in ways that are demonstrably negative.

This applies to both the left and the right, and although the polarities have been reinforced over the last several decades, it will likely only get worse unless every person vows to try to see the positive
in our fellow citizens and non-citizens.

Every religious faith promotes the concept of loving one's neighbor, or inviting the stranger to one's table when they are in need.  It is time to remind ourselves of this.

From negativity comes more negativity-and the reverse must therefore also be true.  The  Buddhist saying surely applies: Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

We are a country that has always been looking toward the future, which has been a boon to our abililty to adapt to difficult situations, but sometimes one has to slow down to be more in the present before looking forward.

In the real estate business there are many sellers who are unhappy because they are not getting the return on investment that they had hoped for, and there are buyers who also fall into a similar place because they want to have a certainty of what values will be like in several years.

I invite them all to join in my new mantra.  Let's appreciate the present moment and not dwell on the past- hopefully we are in good health, and have loving friends and family. 

Let me leave you with this quote from Lamine Pearlheart:

“Life is not the problem, life is a solution. Those who think it to be endured are miserable souls and their views were shaped by negative energy, those who believe that there is anything better, are misled by their urge to live eternally and are apparent witnesses to the greatness of life since they want more of it and not less.

I know that life under a human form is a gift, few creatures get the privilege to experience it as such; to whatever cause I had the chance to experience it in its fullness in a positive way, I am utterly grateful.”