This is NOT a poem, but a short message I would like to convey to as many people as possible.
Many people I have encountered over the years have had a very positive outlook on life, and those are the people I aspire to be.
Some, however, found this world a tad more useless and ugly. Those are the people whose future remains dim and dull.
Now, one of the many things the two types of people differ on is whether happiness is a NEED, or a WANT.
The positive people say that happiness is NEEDED to make one's life as vivid as possible. I truly agree with that statement.
The negative people say that happiness is merely a WANT in the grand scheme of things. And on those days where you feel as sunken as possible, it's quite easy to agree with them. I mean, why ever would the Creator make His most prized creations suffer so much?
My father was one of the positive people who believed happiness to be a need. He believes that when one is suffering, it is a test run by the Creator to make sure you are alive.
One who does not feel pain is not human, and there is not a single life that hasn't had a few bumps in the road.
And the negative people are usually the people who believe that the Creator hates them, and is putting them through more pain than anyone else feels. And in my opinion, they are wrong.
The Creator is very fair, and takes every creation to what I call the longest Tunnel of Depression. And the more positive people have different ways to go about it than the negative people.
Instead of crying over and over about unremarkable griefs, they paint pictures on the walls, and dance, prance and skip to the beat of their own drum. They march forward. They smile in the face of darkness and for them, the tunnel ends shortly.
Negative people sulk while in the tunnel, and constantly run backwards from fear, and run away from darkness, and for them, the tunnel never ends.
So if you are going through a dark time, think of yourself as a positive person, and defeat the tunnel. Cut yourself from the pains of remorse and paint a sun on the walls.
If you do this, trust me. The tunnel will seem much shorter. The decision lies in your hands.
Pick up the paintbrush, or pick up the handkerchief.
