To help us see, why this is so - check out what Mother Teresa wrote in her brilliant piece of writing called “The Final Analysis”:
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. If you are
kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies. Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight. Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous. Be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.Hits home, don’t it?
Similarly (but from a completely different spectrum) - there’s a fun, old-school, Dennis the Menace
cartoon, where Dennis is forced to sit in a chair facing the corner, as he was required to when he did something that he shouldn't have. With his dad and mom hovering behind him unhappily, Dennis muses, “But we’ll laugh about this when we’re older.” Cute, yes, but there's a point, right?! And there's a more important point from Mother Theresa's heart of hearts - and that's that good perspective, attitude, aptitude and mindfulness (PAAM) matters.
It matters a lot.
The fact is, we're living in a crazy (yet wonderful) time; with lots of crazy (yet wonderful) people; doing crazy (yet wonderful) things; living crazy (yet wonderful) lives. And how we choose to deal with this reality - is up to us and our PAAM.
Crazy (yet wonderful) is Good.
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