Two-Ways You Can Become Contagious
By: Ml Fogg
Tags: Positive Thinking, Life, Life Lessons, Current Events, Self Improvement

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Two Ways You Can Become Contagious

I’m not the first to say how we’ve all been tested by life’s inevitable disappointments and tragedies this year more than ever. Uncertainties,

Covid 19, sickness, lockdowns, injustice, untruth, and other troubles are consistently knocking at our door! Even celebrities and dedicated, inspirational people had to dig deep and find courage throughout 2020.

I know I’ve found myself digging more profoundly than ever before. Just last night, I delved deeply for certainty after listening to the news. The information didn’t seem real anymore. It’s become more challenging to decipher the news chatter. What’s factual and what’s fictional? I hope I’m not alone! Perhaps this is what makes us, at times, feel more weary, stagnated, helpless, and despairing.

While watching the latest news updates, I allowed what I heard to shatter my world and fester inside me. I found my soul in a deep rut! Courage and hope were not in my presence. I went into a deep neurotic thought about 2020’s catastrophes and our children’s future, our next generation. What will the world be like for them? Like many of us, my imagination ran with thoughts of “what if.” I was paralyzed in a future world of fears and worries. I yearned for a breakthrough from these sad, pitiful, self-destructive, non-reality thoughts. I only wished that I was watching a suspenseful mystery movie instead and waiting in anticipation of what would happen next, without any worries. But sadly, I wasn’t.

The more I thought about it, the more distressed I became because I knew no living creature on earth, not even the media, could tell us how and when this real-life film would pan out.



After thinking too hard on the matter, I immediately grabbed the remote control, turned the TV off, plopped face-down on my bed, and buried my face in my pillow. I was utterly exhausted! My head pounded, my mind raced, and my heart was hurting. I didn’t want to talk, see or text anyone. I eventually prayed and cried myself to sleep in hopes I would wake up to a miracle. But, when I awoke early morning, nothing had changed. I ached sorely to see our country back to normal again. I rolled over in my bed and tried to shake away the utter obscurity of last night’s news. I slowly lifted the covers from over my face, and my eyes flickered open. Through the blinds in my bedroom, I could see the night’s darkness fading away into the light of a new day.



It suddenly struck me how light shines in the darkness, as is the law of rhythm. All things rise and fall. What goes up must come down. Like a pendulum, when it turns to the right, it must also turn to the left. It always moves through its rotation. Things don’t stick around forever. I knew this, too, would pass.



Just thinking of this switched my gears and gave me comfort and a sprinkle of renewed hope, peace, and joy. It encouraged me to write this powerful, contagious hope that entered my soul and reminded me that someone higher is in control. I knew, from here on, to hold on to my positive emotions. And to spread this courageous, contagious hope, I realized it was essential, at all times, to observe who and what I listen to, as well as what I watch and read.

I pray you see hope as one and done and spread it to others in the year 2021.

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! May your New Year begin with more Blessings, Prosperity, and Hope.