Inside Job

 Salam. 

I am not a cheerful person to begin with, unlike my sister that started her day wishing me good morning sounded so chirpy. I wonder how she did that, to be consistent in being cheerful. I started my morning calculating hours to be back to sleeping because I already felt tired in the morning. So if any of you were under the impression that I am consistently happy or bubbly, please note that that was me masking my real feeling.

Talking about masking my own feeling, I am currently reading this one book and I stumbled upon a sentence that hit me hard, not because I haven’t heard or knew about it before but because there is so much truth to it, especially with the situation that I am facing now. I am sure you know about  this too. 

‘ Sometimes the most proactive thing we can do is to be happy, just to genuinely smile. Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice. But as proactive people, we can carry our own physical or social weather with us. We can be happy and accept those things that at present we can't control, while we focus our efforts on the things that we can.’

So true right?

This is from book titled ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ by Stephen R. Covey. 

And yes, although I know nobody is judging, I am one of those people that reads self help book. I had read quite a number of self help book and yet, I wonder why and how every time I read a new book, there is always blindspot from previous reading that I was only able to learn from the latest or current read.

I hope all of you had a pleasant Raya break and may you be free from any pain, be it physical or heartache. Take that leap if you have to and leave the rest to our God. 

 "No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal." - Marilyn Ferguson.