Listening Without Judgment and Thinking Positively

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Listening Without Judgment and Thinking Positively

The sketch that was just been performed on stage by my friends shows

you one of the consequences that can arise due to listening without

judgment. There are many more consequences that you can imagine but I

can tell you that they are all disastrous. Misunderstanding is a major

factor which is the origin of fights in families. A person young or

old must always be taken seriously when relating his problems. It is

not always necessary that a younger person is always at fault. An

older person may also be at fault. In many families, if a person is

older than all the family members it means that he is always right.

Why is this so? Is he not human? Every human make mistakes.

In many films you can see that when actors have lots of problems they

go and refuge themselves in cigarettes, alcohols, drugs and some even

suicide themselves. In the sketch you can see that when his father

takes him for the culprit, he started to drink alcohol and this has

resulted into a lot of problems for not only him but also his parents.

This does not happen only in films but also in the actual life. I

myself have a relative who has started smoking just because of his own

problems. One day I asked him why he has started smoking. He told me

that when his business was not working well he had no one to entrust

himself and then started to smoke and as you all know "once pop up

can't stop" now he is unable to quit smoking by himself. So just

imagine that you go and tell your parents about your problems and they

do not listen to you or make you the culprit without knowing the whole

problem. What would be your reaction? Won't you react in the same way

as these persons? Naturally this will discourage you even more.

Thinking positively

Thinking plays a very important role in our everyday life. Every

action is accompanied by a thought. There are two main ways of

thinking; Thinking positively and thinking negatively. Frankly

speaking thinking positively is much better for yourself and your

surroundings.

Any negative thought can have terrible consequences and this is one of

the factors that prevents national unity. Jealousy is an imperfection

that man has a role to play in the creation of negative thinking. For

example a person can see his wife talking with a stranger. If the man

thinks negatively about it, then consequences like fighting may lead

to divorce; now if the couple has children just imagine through which

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