Let me begin with a small
story.
By mistake, a boy kept his
teacher’s book in his school bag and brought home. Next day, when teacher asked
the class about her missing book, he couldn’t utter a word! He was scared.
He was fearful till the time
the teacher assured the class that she won’t be angry and she’ll give away a
big sticker! He quickly raised his hand and accepted his mistake. Teacher
praised him for telling the truth and made everyone do scout-clapping for him. On
the same day he shared his experience in his ‘My Day’ notebook. Next day,
when teacher checked his ‘My Day’, she writes a note - ‘Always Speak Truth’.
When the boy’s mother found
out about the incident she made her child understood the learning from this
incident. – Firstly, he should have checked the thing before keeping it in his
bag. Secondly, mistakes happen, and for that he shouldn’t be scared of anyone;
instead he should have accepted his mistake in the first place. And
lastly, she said “Teacher is expecting you to be truthful always.” She made her
own perception on reading the teacher’s comment!
“No Mumma, it’s not like
that!” The boy was not agreeing with the last point of his mother. And he
added, “By this note my teacher wants to say that - I Always Speak Truth”. He
was sure about his teacher’s point of view.
The mother was aware about
her child’s truthful nature, but she wanted her child to be truthful with
everyone and somehow, she made a different perception for the teacher’s point
of view. She thought the teacher was trying to state ‘comment’ instead of ‘Praise’. But
the boy was very clear about it and made a Complete Positive Perception for his
teacher’s note! Wow!
A simple comment conveyed
two different perceptions, to the two different people of the two different
ages. One perception was Partial Positive and the other was Complete
Positive. The mother could have also built a complete positive perception
and it would have ended by praising her child by saying, “See, your
teacher is very happy with you because you always speak truth.” But she missed
the chance.
Her partial positive
perception (which is also called partial negative) could have made the child sadden,
even after being truthful. But the child took both the teacher and his mother’s
point of view positively. Maybe that’s the reason, why the wise people always
suggest - ‘To think like a child’.
Such incidents happen every
day with everyone in this world. And we, the so-called ‘Grownups’ seize it with
our own perception. Most of the time, we don’t crosscheck the injected negativity
in our perception. Our own perception fills bitterness in our mind and that
bitterness builds up a great wall of differences and ends up with hatred
towards the other.
In some cases, we are always
sure about the negativity of the other person (it might be the end result of
the wall, built up by one of them between the two), and we build negative
perception amid the past experiences. But in most cases, we barely know
the other person and we build negative perception without checking them separately. And
in all the instances, by building great wall of negativity around us we end up
with loneliness or we get accompanied with miserable people. And ultimately it
ruins our own life.
There is one saying in Gujarati
language: ‘દ્રિષ્ટિ એવી સૃષ્ટિ’
Meaning: Creation is similar
to the Vision.
Thus, in order to destroy the
prison of negativity, we’ll have to change our own perception. We’ll have to habituate
ourselves to build a complete positive perception in all incidents we
participate. Initially, it may seem difficult but we all are capable for it,
because we all have gone through our childhood. The change in our own
perception can build the bridge of amity between the two… ad
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Friend Always
Amee
Darji
PS: I’m grateful to God for making my child a Positive Thinker.