Our success in life is a function of our attitude towards it. For instance there are only two paths to follow to attain one's destiny or thwart it. One can follow the positive path which believes that all good things are attainable. The other is the negative path which is sceptical about attaining any height in life.
Those who believe in the positive path are those who from when they were young believe that there is more to life than dining and wining. They are the people who believe they must leave this world better than they have met it. They are the people who would identify a particular beneficial cause in human endeavours and pursue it until their names ring bell to the entire world. Barak Obama would have remained like many other blacks who were sceptical about the possibility of a black man becoming American President, therefore, would have never attained that office. But, yes, sensitive to his skin, the positive force in him kept him going even when the possibility of attaining the height of a Senator talkless of a President logically appeared uncertain. The same drive to make a difference fired him on even when there was no money to pursue his ambition. Two major causes Obama identified as needing his contributions to the American populace are in the areas of health and finding alternative source to fuel supply in America and, maybe his third focus is that America was not smart enough by investing so much in fuel-uneconomical vehicles!
He drove these ideas through his thin and is now driving it in his thick days. Only last week, he succeeded in pushing through his ambition to revolutionalize the health sector by signing into law the enabling law. His positive attitude towards this goal did not come when he became a Senator or a President of America. It was a dream he held when he was very poor and a no-body in the society but which he held on tenaciously to that time and chance might one day bring the fortune of pushing it through his way. Today, skin colour nothwithstanding, that time has come and he is pushing it and will eventually be remembered for it as a legacy he is giving to America. !
Those on the negative side are those who dream no dreams not have visions they are pursuing. They are quick at believing that nothing works. They believe that unless you know somebody somewhere, you cannot make progress forgetting that that somebody they looked up to drove their visions before the can be sought after.
This is still very prevalent in Africa where nobody dies a natural death - someone (nay, visionless, jobless, people like their idle selves) somewhere or the invisibles like the witches or wizards or all forms of spiritual principalities, must have killed him or her. They are quick at giving spiritual rather than scientific analysis to every issue and are very quick at sacrificing rational thinking to spiritual explanations.
What is important on both sides of this coin is that our attitude dictates who we eventually are in life. Those who develop negative attitudes will reap the fruit of negativity while those who develop positive attitude will equally reap the benefit of such.
What's your attitude to life? You are sure to reap the reward attached to it!
