Stay positive and don’t predict. The myths of optimism don’t let you…
By: Utkarsh Srivastava
Tags: Predictions, Journey, Optimism, Life, Hope

Stay positive and don’t predict

Everyone has a unique journey to travel and has a story full of excitement, twists-and-turns, suspense, thrill, and tragedy, moreover, with a choice to end it as he/she desires. However, the living methodology isn’t very complex as what people assumed to have; it is strategic and constant to almost everybody. You have to be just OPTIMISTIC about yourself. Good luck would have been coming to your bag, but your savage fear must be defying to welcome it in your life, or you don’t want to see it since you have blindfolded with the negativity. OPTIMISM is a microscope that helps you magnify the minute details of every minute opportunity we’re hoping or we have missed, already.

So, here we can discuss the importance of being OPTIMISTIC in life, not to be mistaken with being a PREDICTOR. As I saw, there is a vast difference in hope and obsessivity.

As I observed and with all the experience I have gained up to date — I would classify the people based on their living style into three categories—

Those who are entangled in the past — it is extremely hard for them to accept the adversities of the present since they have already gone through enough of their journey and found their present is somber, unlike the past. Those who live for today, and today is the primary, however, rest is secondary or doesn’t exist at all. Those who are nervy about the safe future neither matters the past nor the present; they are good to be indulged in the dreams of the future.

In my point of view, the second category is the happiest of all the aforementioned and well-versed and experienced with the way of living. Whatever happened in past should be taken as experience, live today no matter how it is going — good or bad, and be OPTIMISTIC for the future, and again don’t PREDICT. Not only mine, but it was also the saying of Albert Einstien—

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, be hopeful (or optimistic) for tomorrow.”

Why I have a huge urge to compare Optimism and Prediction?

When you predict you cling with it and as Buddha said —

“You can only lose what you cling to.”

When you’re Optimistic for the future — you’re hoping to get it and seeking every possible way to procure control of your needs.

Being a predictor you would lead towards the nature of passivity, however, being Optimistic you would see every failure as a new opportunity to gain experience over, eventually rise again and fight. When things would not go as you predicted, you will see your every hope fading and so the urge to live life with ecstasy. If you’re predicting too much — then you’re willingly deepening the wounds you already have. Every prediction born from the past, and the assumptions will never satisfy you, you’ll always find yourself missing the target by a very minuscule difference. If you’ve already assumed your future, say if you have already predicted your result then why would you study? If you’ll be optimistic about your good results then your brain will entice you to put your efforts to make the result better or achieve what you’re hopeful for (a good result). If you’re predicting then I must say you have already given up trying for a sorted life; I am afraid, later you’ll curse your fortune. Life is indeed probabilistic, very uncertain, but we would propel it wherever we want to take it, everything is uncertain — who knows Big Rip may happen tomorrow and universe would burst into atoms — this is what called to be assumptions and legitimate as well since we can’t do anything except predicting, but where we’ll be on the next day, we know it better, don’t we?

If I can swim, why I’m assuming the ship will come to draw me out of the whirlpool? If I would be deterministic and hopeful for my life then I will make efforts to swim, rather than waiting or assuming myself dead. That is why some people have will power to conquer anything in the world and some keep waiting in the abyss of darkness, couldn’t see the ray of hope.🤷‍♀️

There is a vast life beyond to walk; you’ll never know your future nor you can predict, however, you can be hopeful of getting it.

Stay Cheerful, keep seeking the cult of happiness, if you’re still predicting stop it urgently — because predicting is detrimental and somewhere you’re avoiding to take your responsibility, anyway. Then happiness will loathe you.😒

Stop Anticipating! React — give your life a chance to persuade you to make it better!

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